ok so hears my thoughts:
1 save scumming for me at least is a way of me choosing which choice i would go with if it was me in that situation, without it i can choose a choice and then later think to myself well that's not what i would of done at all in that situation and then i will have to either completely start the game again or reload the closest auto save file which is very annoying to do and ruins my immersion into the game
2. i see your point but in my case none of the names resonated with me (i'm Australian) so without descriptions i just ended up going through all of them untill i found characters with names and ethnicity/colours that i like/felt best represented what i wanted and even then i stopped playing because of a lack of being able to save freely so i could stop whenever and wherever i wanted to,
anyway i do think the game has a great concept and i will revisit it at some point when i have the time to do so maybe after u decide weather or not to add descriptions to the countries in a future patch as if u did that would help immensely with starting out the game again