For the last few hours I've been completing regions, for the iMG and Completist Badges. The last three regions I've completed stopped reporting that I'd been awarded the badges for them. (Besara, Tamila, and Bortola.) I'd thought it was odd, but just ascribed it to User Error... until it kept happening.
After chatting with Live Help, I consulted the Encyclopedia and it showed that I now had the badges for those locations. Each location had shown dotted, unvisited roads on the Map that I'd then visited to complete the areas. Evidently the server registered the Badges' acquisition, yet never notified me locally nor awarded the bonuses.
I'm really unconcerned about the bonuses, and evidently I now have the Badges for those locations. My only real concern is that Glitch is being stable and happy for people.