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Kathigitarkh
Thanks for letting me know.
I thought I should make an update on the status of my civs, for anyone interested.
I still have two civs left to update for BNW: the Papal States and Venice. The Papal States I'm still working on their new UA, which I want to be more active than currently, and Venice will be updated alongside my HRE mod, which will adopt Venice's vanilla UA.
I can't say how long the HRE will take, as I'm learning just how hardcoded the Venetian UA is. My plan was to grant them a settler when Guilds was discovered to found the Free Imperial City of Lubeck; a special city which would serve as your economic center. However, giving the HRE the <NoAnnexing> tag prevents any unit from being able to found cities (presumably once the Capital has been founded), whether they are Settlers or not and without it they lose the means to purchase in puppeted city-states, partially invalidating the benefit of Lubeck. It will take some thought.
Looking forward to the Papal States update. So will HRE be able to found cities like other civs or will it function like BNW Venice? Seems a bit strange for it to work like Venice given that it was a pretty large empire.
So I'm guessing you've given BNW Venice the city list from your G&K mod?