Well started a new game and for some reason there's a huge long road on the map.  I know it's a road because my sovereign and other units move faster when traveling on it.  I've never seen this on any other random games so I'm reporting it as a bug, but here's a good example where the developers can claim it's "by design".   Here's the save game:

Link:  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9396252/Gameplay_Bugs/August_4thgame.EleSav

I'm now having this occur for all my new games... not sure why the roads have only now started to appear.   Does anyone else have roads for new games?

UPDATE:

Okay I started another new game and I found a level_8 demon on turn2.  I haven't changed any game settings.

Link:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9396252/Gameplay_Bugs/Level_8_Demon_on_Turn2.JPG