Imperium Offtopicum: Rise of (Euro-)Patriotism

Government types:
The government type you have determines your starting bonus. It has a name, depending on your state religion (changeable at any time). Your government, too, can be changed.
The governments are divided into these categories (some are taken from Vicky II):
Monarchies:

• Absolute Monarchy: One ruler is so much easier. You will receive an extra troop and the "centralized" modifier, which allows you more tax income at the cost of higher stability drop when changing governments. This represents Sultanates and Emirates in Particular.
• Prussian Constitution: Halfway between fair and absolute. You will recieve the modifier "Prussian constitution" which allows you to hold elections without negative outcomes, but with a divided house. You also gain an extra troop. This represents the Prussian constitution, most notably the Landtag and Herrenhaus.
• Parlimentary Monarchy: Monarchs are referred to as "people who open stuff". You get elections every so often and after the election you get the modifier "favorable winner" or "unfavorable winner", in which the first means you have some say and the latter means you are in trouble. You also get a Casus Belli on a chosen Nationalist Dictatorship. This represents the Monarchies that were against Germany in WWII.

Democracies:
There is only one kind: the Democracy. You get the "will of the people" modifier which can affect your country some way. You start with less Rebellion Chance. This represents the USA.
Dictatorships:

• Nationalist Dictatorship: You are Ruler. Everyone believes in you. You get the centralized modifier and an automatic Casus Belli on two chosen Provinces at start. This represents the Third Reich and the Second World War start.
• Communist Dictatorship: You are the people, everyone is equal but you and your comrades in government are more equal. You get the Will of the People, with the exception that it will change through new acquisitions, and an extra province claim at start. This represents the immense size of countries like the USSR and China.
• Republican Dictatorship: You have been elected, but who needs democracy? Just call yourself president and rule with an Iron fist! You start with two extra troops, but recieve the "Spring Uprising" modifier every so often, which spawns rebels. This represents things like the Arab world.

Provinces define your border. Each one costs 3 XP to claim. Each province has a base income of 2 XP and 100 Manpower, meaning 1 regiment could be created in every province. Naval provinces can create one ship every turn. this may be affected by a modifier.

There are also Wasteland provinces. These are Komi, Sahara and El Djouf. You cannot claim or pass through these provinces, someone in Mali needs to pass through Rio de Oro, Fez and Tadimekket before he is in Songhai. He cannot pass through El Djouf.

Enclaves are a new system. They are a province you control NOT CONNECTED to your other provinces, this includes provinces overseas. Rebel Provinces are not considered enclaves, as are provinces not somehow bordering an island province and provinces bordering neutral provinces. You may lose an enclave through the fact that it has nothing to do with your country, in this case it will go to the country surrounding it the most. If it borders one of the Wasteland provinces, it IS considered an enclave. It's alo considered an enclave if it borders the edge of the map as well as a country. Enclaves are impossible to get if you don't war or are a rebel state.
Here's an example map:

Modifiers are special things that affect your country: They may give you extra income or give you more rebels in a rebellion. Some of the governments have permanent modifiers, some have dynamic ones (the (un)favorable winner modifier, for example). There are Governmental and Country modifiers. Governmental ones depend on your government type, Country ones are totally random. GOVERNMENTAL (starting) modifiers are:
Centralized: More tax income, Higher stability drop when changing to a different government
Prussian Constitution: No negative effects when elections finished, divided house that gives random modifiers.
Unfavorable/Favorable Winner: a random good or bad Country modifier that lasts until each election, depending on if the winner is favorable or not.
Will of the People (Democratic): Random modifiers every now and then.
Will of the People (Communist): Random modifier with each new province.
Spring Uprising: Revolts every now and then, but rarely.
There are too many Country Modifiers to list.

Your army? the thing that keeps you alive. Always. Navy? your Wooden/Iron wall. Without these, you're toast, no matter what.
You have this thing called manpower, you gain a set amount per province, and you need about 1 province to recruit a regiment of Soldiers. Officers are a strain on your lords. Also mobilization.
There are three types of soldier:
Professional (Soldiers): Normal soldiers that require the manpower to build.
Officers: The bigwigs that require rich people.
Militia: Mobilized, great amounts but stagnates a province.
Soldiers are your best bet, since you can go on living. They fight well and do not care about certain things.
Officers require Tier III army, and help with your soldier efficiency.
Militia are your mobilized reserves, every time you call mobilize a province will stagnate until you call demobilize. You need to be seriously desperate for that, right? Hunting guns have, however, proven a suitable weapon in the past, so the sheer amount of these pack a powerful punch.

Militia autodefend, Soldiers can be set to autodefend, officers don't defend.

Navies, once again 2 types:
Wood: Your normal ship of ancient times, wastes less manpower but falls apart at the shots of the ironclads.
Ironclad: Ironclads are available with Tier III navy and are stronger than wood ships. They waste a lot of manpower though.
Navies waste manpower, so you lose some, this negative effect is lost with Navy Tech.
Militia can be used for navies, and in mobilization, navies will draw from militia instead, Soldiers in normal times, officers never.
They assist in coastal battle.

Think you can be a ruler who won't care for his people? Wrong! You have a constant stream of rebels to worry about (especially if you are a Republican Dictatorship). You also have this wonderfully annoying thing called "stability" or stab for short.
Each empire starts with +1 stability, through good roleplay and time this will increase, for having no Casus Belli and no goods for your pops this will drop. There is a scale from -5 to +5, where -5 means there's a rebellion in a province near you soon, and +5 means that people are so happy with your enlightened rule that they won't rebel.
It is, however, not counting modifiers, very hard to stick on a perma +5. If you are on +5 for 4 updates at a max, the modifier chance is 100%.
Rebels range from some peasants with torches via burgher rebellions and large lordly revolts all the way to civil war, in which case you'd better arm your men.
In civil war, your country will split into two groups, always opposing each other - majorities and minorities, rich and poor, etc. if NATIONALIST rebels control a province longer than an update, a non-player or ex-player can style himself leader of his new country. Others will have to recognize him first though. Otherwise, an NPC will take control and be at war with the parent faction.
Minor revolts are easy to crush, and the stability will go up. Rebellions aren't bound to a country! Just because Greenland has a rebellion does not mean the Red Union can rest in peace!

War is not the simple system it is in Civ, so you might want to toughen up on Vicky2/EUIII Casus Belli systems.
Occaisionally, you get a casus belli. This may be on a NPC or on another player, NPCs GET A CASUS BELLI TOO! Roleplaying can give you a casus belli, and the RNG will decide if it's a good CB or not, this is a simple coin flip, heads always equals aye, tails equals nay.

War is fought between armies, I believe that the better army will win. Except if overwhelmed. But this does NOT mean a bunch of Army I soldiers can defeat 5 officers with a small Army IV soldier group, not always. I will use a RNG to determine outcome, first a coin flip, then the sufferings of the armies.

Peace depends on what you can agree on.

There are a few groups of population, each falls into the lords (rich), governors (middle) and commoners (poor). Each of these groups have their needs - always food, drink and something to do as a job. This part is based of the Anno series of Games.



These are the BASIC needs, you get discounts on Tier II Commerce.
the Everyday needs are always what the upper class craves as BASIC, lords have fruit, whisky, Title. Luxury needs are always what the strata 2 higher than you craves as basic, middle craves the rich everyday, rich craves Cigar, Trading Company and Servant. Everyone can become the higher tier, but new farmers will always appear.

There is a tech tree system, but it follows a Vicky2-like model (most of the IOT is drawn from Vicky2). This means that there is a set item that needs tech X to research, and all inventions associated with it require that tech.
There are these groups:
Army: Soldiers, Soldier efficiency, manpower
Navy: Ship advances, naval limit
Commerce: XP gain, trade deals with NPCs
Industry: Buildings.
Each has their own tech tree, and each tier of techs is better. There are 4 (IV) tiers. TECHS ARE NOT CUMULATIVE BECAUSE THIS IS NOT NECESSARY.




Then there are inventions, these allow minor modifiers, such as a + 5 manpower boost, inventions:

Your economy is made up of XPs. It is used to build, research, trade and build ships, although I did not mention that before.
Research for each tier tech equals 15 XP for Tier I techs, 20 XP for Tier II, 35 XP for Tier III and 40 XP for Tier IV. Trading rates depend on what the players want or on what Tier of Commerce you have when trading with NPCs. This is affected by modifiers as well.
Then there is construction. There are the following Tiers of construction: 0, I, II, III, IV. 0 is available from the start, each other tier is unlocked as you research your way through the Industry Tier.