you have a decision for the military and you need to culture switch dor your administartion to change

every race has it's own military and administrative modifiers. you'll have to play with the cards your dealt in this case. it's the mods way of representing the different strenghts and weaknesses each race has. kobolds for example are trash but have *AMAZING* attrition.

what you CAN do however is change your primary culture to something else (like Gnome or Human) and the military and administrative modifiers will change. this does mean however that you are effectively no longer a kobold nation.