Correct me if I'm wrong, but I get the impression that when I play a game, the other races keep whatever bonuses and political party I chose last time I played them.

I absolutely hate this.

I also don't want to have to manually reconfigure each race every time I play. It would be great of there was a way to have each race choose its own bonuses and politics for each game. Using parameters that make sense according to the race's style would be nice, but even random would be much better than the way things are now.