as for your flood problem you can use timers for your msg commands

elseif (%item == 4) {
      set -u15 %answer germany
      msg $chan 1,1..................
      .timer 1 1 msg $chan 1,1..................
      .timer 1 3 msg $chan 4,4..................
     .timer 1 5 msg $chan 4,4..................
     .timer 1 7 msg $chan 8,8..................
      msg $chan 8,8..................
    }