[EDIT] Known bug... ignore me.
I decided to see if a save/load would make phantom units from destroyed sovereigns disappear and got a map bug that doesn't look like any I've seen so far, although I know we are seeing a lot of those on loads. It shows the map with my area of influence, road just started, and pawns, but no mountains, forests, cities, or fertile land squares, all of which should be present.
This probably qualifies as starting to close as well. The large influence area was my starting location. The small area was another sovereigns city originally. I took a chance trying to kill him and built by his fertile ground. He had a phantom unit hanging around so I thought I'd see what happened to it on a save/load.
On the bright side, his phantom unit did disappear.
Here's my debug.err
Here's my dxdiag
