oh yea if you want to do that you can just delete the [Your Country Flag] + [Leader Portrait] sprites for whatever gd4 version you want to load and it'll remove like 100 MB
here's an example of what that would look like for version 4.13.8: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xJFwknUlT23agh0ZYkvrrQcfD4RSeA-L/view?usp=drive_link