Guys, you are driving yourselves (and me) a bit crazy! You have to understand - KCC and the embassies don't keep us informed of their plans and methods. You are trying to read information from guesswork - and whilst we can guess some things - it is only guessing. So relaxxxxxx!
TYT about the country with the highest AP - I haven't checked, but that is probably Iran - and that is both odd and significant. They "normally" get very high number of visas issued - but it seems their AP cases are being held back. However, if someone decides to allow them to unblock Iran (handled in 3 embassies) they could grab 1000 visas - which would be a large chunk of the remaining visas.