My idea for an Union of Latin American States
Hi everybody, just a disclaimer, this is a personal project that goes beyond maps, but i would like to share it with you all, i hope you like it
If you want more lore just ask, thank you all.
These are common questions that you might have:

1. This is just not feasible

Well, yeah, I did not want to make an idealistic scenario neither a fully realistic one. This is just a thought experiment, and is asking If for some reason the entire continent united ¿How such a behemoth would work and how would we like it to be?

1. ¿How federal is this Union?

It is barely a state, is a loose confederation, state governments have almost as much autonomy as the countries of the EU, with some exceptions; environment, defense, public service, education and healthcare where federal institutions have the last words.

1. ¿What are these reserve things?

These are fully functional states carve out of existing states for their immense ecological and strategic importance. People here have more liberties than the rest of the federation. They barely pay income and added value taxes, receive a basic income (Like in Alaska) and preferential treatment, but in contrast have to follow really strict environmental rules and regulations and heavy penalties for pollution.

1. ¿¿¡¡¡WHAT DID YOU DO TO MEXICO AND BRAZIL!!!??

Sorry Brazil and Mexico-Sama you are too big (sorry for that cringy otaku joke)
But yeah, is sad but Brazil would have 1/3 and Mexico 1/6 of the population. Those countries would be underrepresented in Congress if they are considered just one state and overrepresented if each State (Alagoas, Chiapas etc.) would be considered equal to Colombia or Argentina for example, so I choose a middle path. The idea is that any state has more than 50 million people (1/12 of the Union). I chose to cluster states vaguely trying to follow regional sentiments, in the case of Brazil I choose the regions.

1. ¿Where does the Anfictionic City name come from?

It was the name of the meeting proposed by Bolívar and Miranda to create a United states of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies. It also sounds good both in english, Spanish and Portuguese.

1. ¿How is the territorial organization?

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The Union is divided into federal entities: States, Federal reserve states, the Federal Capital and Federal dependencies.
Federal dependencies are either almost uninhabited islands or Antartica.
States are divided in provinces and metropolitan regions. Each province has no more than 1/1200 of the population, roughly half a million people and Metropolitan regions are the same as provinces but could be way bigger and are created surrounding a big city. If a city expands further than its municipal limits, it passes more and more functions to the province that gradually becomes a metropolitan government and its municipalities become Wards or localities.
Provinces also work as school and hospital districts.
Municipalities have a ten-level-tier-system that considers population, wealth, services and other variables to decide the budget that receive from the province, the state and the Union. Municipalities level three and four have a lot less bureaucracy, few public employees and citizens have a more direct participation in local regulations, school curriculum and budget creation for example.
Municipalities over Tier Three have a mayor and a municipal council where the number of members depend on the population. The smallest municipalities (level one and two) have a communitarian system where there is only a Community Board of ten elected members that collectively realize all government functions, local decisions are taken by direct democracy meetings called Local Assemblies that are realized the last saturday of every month.
The name of the municipality change according to their level:
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The same happens with municipalities in reserve states, but sectors are ruled by Commissariats that are part of the State Guard.
Municipalities have to belong to a province, but could choose in a referendum to change which one they belong.
Federal reserve-states have a different system. The territory is divided into organized and unorganized territory. The former is divided in Sectors and the later in municipalities that only include the urban and suburban territory, every four years the limits are actualized by a technical agency. Sectors are almost uninhabited and as such do not really have a local government, they are ruled directly from the State.
¿How is the government?
The division of power is pretty normal for a semi presidential republic, but there are some caveats. The executive is divided in three (or two and a half if you want).
The president is elected by a single transferable vote (STV), she/he should be both the winner both in the Union and in at least 15 of the federal entities. There is an informal truce that assures that there should be a president from either the Brazilian or Mexican, most presidents come from small states, such as Costa Rica or Uruguay while the Prime minister generally comes from the most populous states, like Aztlan or Nordeste.
The prime minister is the president of the party or the coalition that holds the majority of the House of Representatives. Is accompanied by a Cabinet that is chosen by the House of Representatives. The Prime Minister is also the Chief of Government.
The Secretary General is a particular character, is not elected, but is designated by a Federal Public Service Exam and an absurdly strict interview process that assures political neutrality because it is a life-time position. The SG have the function of assuring cooperation and breaking controversy and discussions between the President and the Prime Minister and among states and as such, it has the power to overrule the decision of any other institution.
It has to live an ascetic life, It should NEVER express personal opinions on media, hold any real estate or financial activities so it does not have any moral interference. Is supposed to be approved by all parties and states and be as impartial as humanly possible. They are generally older jurists that have made a life-long career in public service with any scandal or misbehavior during its life.
The legislative branch is divided in two houses. The Upper House is the Senate, where the amount of seats is one for every million people. Senators are elected federally, all citizens of every state could elect different senators from any place of the Union. This house is supposed to represent the popular vote.
The Lower House is the House of Representatives, where the representatives of every federal entity are calculated by adding 20% to the number of millions of inhabitants plus three representatives. Every Federal entity has one or two houses depending on the state constitution. The Upper house has a state-wide representation while the lower one is a province-based representation. States have governors, state-reserves have commissioners (Or lieutenant governor) and the Federal Capital have a Mayor-governor and local mayor for every locality.
Provinces only have a provincial assembly composed of representatives from every municipality, a state representative and other ethnic or civil society representatives specified by the state. The same with metropolitan regions. The Province Representative is the Mayor of the municipality that is the capital of the province.
¿What is the state guard?
Is a civil defense institution that keeps public order and the rule of law and directly confronts guerrilla groups, drug lords, paramilitaries and generally everything that police is not really able to do. They also fulfill the functions of police in reserve-states, where they have a special name. In Patagonia they are called the Austral Guard (Guardia Austral) and in Amazonia the Anauê (That means Brother in Tupí). They are a state and not a federal entity and as such, have a lot of autonomy in their internal organisation.
The Austral Guard is known for using horses in their daily routines and by using a well known uniform (Like the mounted police in Canada), that consist in a light blue beret and poncho, with a Southern Cross in the back and military gear. The Anauê is generally divided in different ethnicities and groups, hence, they use different uniforms that generally mix European and native iconography.
¿And what about the armed forces?
Is pretty average, there is an army, a navy and an air force, all of them only act in external defense because the internal control is done by the State Guard. There are three other minor bodies. The first one is the Environmental Task Force that has the responsibility of controlling deforestation, illegal hunting and other activities that hinders the natural resources, that are considered property of the Union and not individual states. At the end is the Antarctic Task force, that is composed of a collection of all of the other bodies and have the function of protecting Latin American Antartica from foreign intervention, they also have a scientific body.
The last one and the most controversial is the Agency of Security and Intelligence (Asein) that is the intelligence institution for both internal and external missions. They are considered something close to a secret police. This organ should be a civil one and restrained by the Defense ministry, but in reality, works like part of the armed forces and have actually spied, kidnap and even torture party members, specially those of Lusitania and Freedom and Revolution.
Most of its members came from the various intelligence services and even paramilitaries of each country. The DAS in Colombia, the SEBIN of Venezuela, the Cuban Secret Police, the AAA of Argentina and even some former FBI and CIA from Puerto Rico. There are also many internal conflicts of various ideological factions but all of the federal governments have ignored their mistakes because they have been able to eliminate, sometimes brutally, any irredentist movement and foreing intervention.
¿So what about Antarctica?
Is a federal dependency with a special legal regime. Other countries do not recognize the claim and directly accuse the Union of violations to the Antarctic treaty, and those claims are actually true. The geopolitical strategy consist in hitting the first blow and be more prepared than other countries for the year when the Antarctic treaty end and the Union could take control of their Antarctic resources faster than the rest of the world, that is why the Union spends millions of Pesos-Reales in keeping Puerto Esperanza afloat.
¿How does education work?
Most schools are public, but are not free. Every parent receives a coupon of certain value for every child and most schools do not charge more than that amount, but those schools of high quality are able to charge a little bit more. This coupon system was implemented in order to reduce cost while increasing coverage. It also forces schools to compete for increasing the averages of their students in Federal Standardized Exams while giving reasonable prices. A similar system is used in public universities.
There are private schools and universities, but tend to exist to provide a service to a specific demographic, such as those of a specific religion or ideology. These schools have more autonomy to choose their curriculum.
There are four basic periods. Nursery, that takes care of young children until they have 7 years, Primaries, from first to fifth grade, highschool, from sixth to tenth grade and Technical, that are three years where the students choose a technical specialisation, generally is a preparation for university, such as pre-legal, pre-engineering, although many students prefer vocational training, such as mechanics or programming. Each period has a Federal Standardized Exam that is realized by the Ministry of Education without the intervention of schools.
Federal Exams are a big deal because they help students to access better schools. These schools are ranked not just by a simple average, but also with the amount of students over a certain grade or capacity. This forces schools not to just help good students to become even better, but to help the worst student to reach the rest of their classes, reducing the inequality of quality of the education in schools.
The Union has both Spanish and Portuguese as official languages, and as such, every student has to take a Minimal proficiency test in either of them to graduate, this tends to be easy because both languages are taught parallely since first grade. Teachers put reading lists that include both hispanic and lusitanian authors trying to create a narrative of united history and culture. Media is also really bilingual and lusitanians are strongly eager to defend their right to receive public services in their language.
All public documents have to be translated to both official languages. States and provinces have also official languages, but could choose to translate services to those languages. For example, Quechua is an official language in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, Guaraní is official in Paraguay, Maya in Yucatán, Nahuatl in Aztlán, Welsh in certain provinces of Patagonia, German in parts of Sul, etc.
Many public schools have courses in other languages, Chinese, Hindi and Hebrew in Anfictionic City, Japanese in Perú, Lebanese in Granada, Korean in Guatemala and Paraguay and Mapundung in both Chile and Patagonia.
In general terms, education not only looks for technical learning, but the creation of compromised citizens and the creation of an unified identity and sense of national pride. Different states change the curriculum to be closer to what states want, for example, religious or moral elements in Costa Rica and Peru or localized elements, such as biology and botanic classes in Amazonía and international economy in Anfictionic City.
The education in the union has some influence from the German and Japanese model. Nursery and Primary have a strong focus on civic duties. Toddlers are expected to learn respect for their elderlies, tolerance, acceptance to people of other states, basic house chores, study habits while in the primary, childrens are taught both the history of all of the Federation and not only their rights but their duties to the Union.
During highschool and technical they also receive education about the political system, their means of participation and the importance of the National service. This consists in a duty that every citizen has to fulfill in order to become a citizen, vote, be a public servant etc. It could be civil or military. Civil service is one year and a half and the military just ten months. Every public institution, civil society organisation or private entity with a community mision upload their job vacancies in a federal database where students could choose theirs, based in their studies and aptitudes, the CS is generally paid and could be reduced to fourteen months or even less if is served outside of the home state of the student.
This service is considered the transition to real adulthood for many, is the first time that a student is outside of home, receiving a wage, living on their own. It also fulfills a more important function, it gives every single student of the Union important job experience and a close relation between technical schools and the market to reduce unemployment.
Military service usually is really scarce and only those with great physical aptitudes and any health problems are accepted. It could be fulfilled in any of the branches of the armed forces or in the national guard. Families in the Reserve states tend to have great pride in having one or more sons or daughters in their national guards, which are considered an important cultural pillar of these regions.

The Ottoman rework has been teased for a long time so I know you’ll be happy to hear it is finally here and ready for you to enjoy! Not only that, but the National France rework comes with it two, along with several other new focus trees. We’ve also spent time working on other changes, such as letting you recall volunteers, along with many bug fixes and performance improvements. We hope you enjoy the changes and have fun playing Kaiserreich!
Note: As always this patch isn’t save-game compatible. If you would like to continue your game please use the manual download found here:
- The KR4 team
Changes
Notable Additions

• Completely reworked the Commune of France’s generals, admirals, and military ministers
• Russia’s foreign policy has been overhauled to accompany the changes to the Middle East and the Caucasus
• Added “Recall Volunteers” button
• Expeditionary Forces no longer count towards the division limit

New Focus Trees

• Syria
• Iraq
• Hejaz
• Georgia
• Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
• Suez International Zone
• Cyrenaica

Reworked/Expanded Focus Trees

• Ottoman Empire
• Egypt
• Tripolitania
• Jabal Shammar
• National France

Tweaked Focus Trees

• Russia
• Russian Socialist Republic
• Romania
• Ireland
• Portugal
• Oman
• Yemen
• Germany

New Events

• Romania
• National France
• Syria
• Iraq
• Hejaz
• Georgia
• Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem
• Tripolitania
• Ottoman Empire
• Egypt
• Cyrenaica
• Jabal Shammar
• Ikhwan

Tweaked Events

• Russia
• Commune of France

New Decisions

• Ireland
• Romania
• National France
• Portugal
• Syria
• Iraq
• Hejaz
• Ottoman Empire
• Egypt
• Cyrenaica
• Jabal Shammar

Tweaked Decisions

• Commune of France
• Russia

New Custom Country Paths

• Ottoman Empire
• National France
• Egypt

GFX

• New focus icons for Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mittelafrika, Peru, the Union of Britain and Venezuela
• New flags for Alash Orda, the Commune of France, Illyria, National France, the Ottoman Empire and Ulster
• Adjusted the Africa loading screen to match the new situation
• New or updated portraits for:
  • Afghanistan: Amanullah Khan
  • Armenia: Berç Kerestecıyan, Hamazasp Babadzhanian
  • Assyria: Agha Petros, Dawid d’Mar Shimun, Shimun XXI Eshai
  • Austria: Alfred Jansa, Alfred Klahr, Eduard Barger, Erhard Raus, Franz Böhme, Franz Dinghofer, Friedrich Adler, Friedrich Materna, Georg von Trapp, Heinrich Pergler von Perglas, Julius Ringel, Karl Eglseer, Karl Renner, Lothar Rendulic, Ludwig von Eimannsberger, Pierre Ramus, Sigismund Schilhawsky, Wilhelm Miklas, Wilhelm Zehner
  • Belgium: Adelbert I, Georges Timmermans, Jean Baptiste Piron, Maximilien de Neve de Roden, Victor Billet, Victor van Strydonck de Burkel
  • Britain: Anthony Pugsley, Ebeneezer Edwards, John MacCormick, John Strachey, Robert Oliver
  • Bulgaria: Ivan Variklechkov, Kimon Georgiev, Konstantin Bekyarov, Konstantin Lukash, Nikola Hadzhipetov, Nikola Nakov, Sava Ivanov, Teodosi Daskalov
  • Cameroon: Karl Atangana
  • Cyprus: Leontios II
  • Cyrenaica: az-Zubayr bin Ahmad as-Sharif
  • Don-Kuban: Andrey Shkuro
  • Egypt: Abbas II
  • France: André Lemonnier, André Marty, Charles Delestraint, Charles Luizet, Diego Brosset, Ernest Petit, Gaston BIllotte, Georges Blanchard, Georges Catroux, Henri Tanguy, Jacques Sadoul, Joseph Putz, Louis Buisson, Marcel Gensoul, Marie-Pierre Koenig, Philippe Auboyneau, Raoul Castex, Raoul Magrin Vernerey, René Olry
  • Georgia: Ekvtime Takaishvili, Evgeni Gegechkori, Giorgi Bagration, Kakutsa Cholokashvili
  • Greece: Pangalis Tsaldaris
  • Hejaz: Abdullah bin al-Hussein, Abdul Qadir Pasha el-Jundi, Ghazi bin Faisal al-Hashmid
  • Hungary: Árpád Szakasits, Béla Kun, István Bethlen, Oszkár Jászi
  • Ireland: Frank MacDermot, Seán Murray
  • Ikhwan: Nidā ibn Nuhair, Sultan ibn Humaid ibn Bijad, Zaidan ibn Hithlain
  • Jabal Shammar: Abdallah ibn Mitab ibn Abd al-Aziz, Muhammad ibn Talil, Saud al-Subhan
  • Lebanon: Bechara el Khoury, Emile Edde, Emile Boustany, Farajallah el-Helou, Fuad Chehab, Pierre Gemayel, Saeb Salam, Youssef Chmeit
  • Lithuania: Augustinas Voldemaras, Mikas Reklaitis
  • Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem: Esat Sagay, Raghib al-Nashashibi
  • Najd: Saud bin Abuldaziz al-Saud
  • National France: Aimé Doumenc, André Mallarmé, Aubert Frère, Camille Chautemps, Edouard Daladier, Eugène Deloncle, François Darlan, François de la Rocque, Henri Mordacq, George Groussard, Georges Thierry d’Argenlieu, Henri Roger Marie Meric de Bellefon, Jean Decoux, Jean-Marie Charles Abrial, Jean Touzet du Vigier, Louis Franchet d’Esperey, Louis Marin, Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, Marcel Descour, Maurice Grisot, Philippe Leclerc, Pierre Boyer, Pierre Étienne Flandin, Pierre Lelong,
  • Ottoman Empire: Asim Gunduz, Cahit Toydemir, Fahrettin, Hayrullah Fisek, Kazim Orbay, Mehmet Ali Ülgen, Mehmet Hayri Tarhan, Kazim Karabekir, Fevzi Çakmak, Mustafa Kemal, Mustafa Muglali, Nafiz Gurman, Hüseyin Rauf Orbay, Mahmud Muhtar Katırcıoğlu, Nihat Anılmış, Nuri Yamut, Ömer Fahrettin, Osman Fuad, Sukru Okran, Tahsin Yazici
  • Poland: Konstanty Rokossowski, Mikolaj Boltuc
  • Romania: Nicolae I
  • Serbia: Zivko Topalovic
  • Siam: Luang Karjsongkhram, Luang Kriengsakpichit, Phraya Wichitjakkrit, Seni Pramoj, Sindhu Kamolnavin
  • Sweden: Ernst Linder
  • Syria: Adi bin Hassan, Akram Hourani, Aziz Ali al-Misri, Hashim al-Atassi, Husni al-Zaim, Khalid Bakdash, Muhammad Abdel Moneim, Rushdi al-Kikhiya, Said al-Jazairi
  • Tripolitania: Ahmad Faqih Hasan, Bashir Saadawi, Salim Bey al-Muntasir
  • Trucial States: Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
  • West Indies: Eustace Fiennes
  • Yunnan: Lu Han

Music Mod

• Added Ottoman songs: Resadiye Marsi, Ottoman March, Izmir March, and March of the Ottoman Expedition
• Added Indonesian song: Rayuan Pulau Kelapa
• Added Polish song: Marsz Obozowy
• Added Mongolian Song: Chingges Khaanii Magtaa
• Added German Song: Komm Zurück! There’s also a new version of Das Gibt Nur Einmal (It’s the same recording, just with less background noise)
• By request of the French Team, the French music list has been reworked. The new songs are: Ça ira mieux demain, Ce que c'est qu'un drapeau, Cocorico, Debout la France, Hymne de L'Infanterie de Marine, Ils ne la gagneront pas, Ils Reviendront, La France de demain, La Galette, La Royale, Le Chant des Girondins, Le Cuirassier, Le Rêve Passe, Marche des Tirailleurs, Nous autres de la chasse (Us of the Hunt)", La Renouveau, Rhin et Danube,Semons le Grain de la Lumière and a new version of La Marche Lorraine. French songs that have been removed: Partant pour la Syrie (main theme, will be re-added later), Au 31 du mois d'août, Maréchal Nous Voilà, La Victoire est à nous, Aida Triumphal March, La Grenadière, Primer Imperio Francés, Veillons au salut de l'Empire

Mapping

• Ningbo is now a city
• Added Poti and moved Batumi to Trabzon
• Made the Trans-Saharan railway a special crossing
• Split Wales into North and South Wales
• Merged the Barotseland states
• Strategic region updates for Britain and the Congo
• Ifni is now a separate state from Rio de Oro
• Added new border states in Panama and Costa Rica
• Restored the correct borders of Burkina Faso
• Removed Lake Volta, as it doesn’t exist in 1936
• Split Flanders into Antwerp and Flanders
• Split Wallonia into Hainaut and Liège
• Curaçao and Qatar now have ports
• Chinese provinces are now displayed on the state screen

Miscellaneous

• Added a British Exile trait for CAN generals and admirals, showing which leaders will return to GBR when it is formed
• Added coalitions for Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Panama
• If Shanqing forms Qing, they can integrate parts of China
• The Manchu Coup is no longer really democratic, and ends elections after 1945
• Japan can no longer annex China for a smaller cost
• Legation Cities now keep their current government when puppeted
• Legation Cities can request allied Chinese concessions
• MacArthur can now secure all of Texas and Oklahoma before the Civil War starts
• Tennessee and North Carolina are now more likely to stay with MacArthur.
• Added a way for Austria to bribe Bulgaria with Macedonia for an alliance if DAB exists after annexing Serbia.
• Added the ability for Austria to give core Serbia to Illyria (it cannot core it).
• Delayed Austria's entry into the WK - they’ll only do it if they’ve chosen their reform path and done the focus, and if Germany has lost Bavaria or has over 30% surrender progress.
• If Canada is invaded by anyone other than America or one of its allies, a non-socialist America will join the war in favor of Canada.
• Anqing and Nanjing Clique Yiguandao/KMT decisions have been improved and cleaned up.
• Rocket artillery and motorized rocket artillery added to companies
• Ireland now starts with an AuthDem Minister of the Interior, instead of NatPop
• Romania's Iron Guard content expanded, especially the middle Legionary tree. King Nicolae I can succeed instead of Michael.
• Michael I is now localized to Mihai, just as other Romanian kings are localised.
• Gave player more control over whether or not Carol II dies in the assassination event.
• Added decisions to Carol's post-unification path
• American Union State can now join the Entente
• Venice now begins with a military malus for a couple of months, when it revolts
• Russia no longer sends volunteers to Xinjiang
• Reduced Kumul's out of supply boni and lowered their starting troop count by 2
• Transylvania can now be granted to a non-aligned Romania.
• Several new event pictures for Russia and the Commune of France
• Removed Volkerschau events
• Portugal’s Colonial Development focuses have been turned into decisions.
• Custom GUI in the stateview that shows which Province Chinese states belong to, similar to the new Ottoman GUI
• The above GUI now shows the status of replacing the governors in the Reestablish Order decision tab for Anqing
• Germany can now influence the Portugal-Mittelafrika peace deal
• Redone the Socialist Anti-Colonial Committee focus for the Commune of France to match with the changes in National France
• Added camels to the Middle East nations, Ethiopia, Somalia and National France
• Internationale and Entente/Reichspakt countries will now embargo each other when joining the faction
• Twilight Struggle is now removed if the Internationale is defeated.
• The Internationale will now collapse if a suitable leader cannot be found.
• Poland now gets claims on Germany upon allying with Russia.
• Majors now have an increased factor towards researching CAS and NAV.
• Moved the Isle of Man to Lanark
• Poland now gets claims on Germany upon allying with Russia.
• Poland can now annex Gumbinnen if it has annexed Konigsberg.
• Can no longer go down to “Disarmed Nation” voluntarily
• Removed Arabian cores on the Levant
• NatPop SIC now more likely to join Entente
• Added a couple of tooltips to three Russian events
• Updated Persia-Russia peace deal
• Ecuador now starts with a mountaineer template
• Smedley Butler now dies after the Second American Civil War
• GEA and RUS will now send lend-lease to the United Front if possible
• Added Aland annexation decision
• Added Romandie annexation decision
• Aland is now demilitarized again at the end of wars
• The Phalanstere's assistance can now be refused.
• AI USA now builds more tanks
• Xinjiang may now be given to the Central Asian Federation
• Updated AI factors for the conscription laws
• Chen Jiongming no longer invites a corrupt Zhao Hengti to the Federalists.
• Legation Cities can now request concessions that their allies hold
• Removed dates from loading quotes
• Chile will now receive Tierra del Fuego if it can't be returned to Argentina by whoever is releasing it.
• Belgium's AT ideas now give piercing boni instead.
• Updated AI factors for the conscription laws.
• Tags that revolt from Andesia now automatically join a faction to work together to crush Argentina
• If Brazil is a puppet or was Balkanized by Patagonia then they too can join the faction to crush Andesia
• When a tag revolts against Andesia it automatically goes to war, no longer can you opt to not go to war
• Andesia now peaces out with the revolters after its full collapse
• The NFA and GBR foci about the British-French relationship are now linked.
• Added unit limit bonuses for the SCW
• Added a small unit limit bonus for Yucatan
• Russia can now invite Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to its faction
• Hawaii can now be granted to GEA
• Added an Ukrainian rename for Kuban
• Some nerfs to the CSA military ideas
• Lithuania will now refrain from rebelling before the WK
• The UK will target in peace conferences, and then no longer release, Malaysia or Sarawak unless decolonised.
• Romania’s Great Game decision category now warns you when you’re losing stability
• Memel can be granted to an allied Lithuania
• “Restoring Napoleon” loading tip replaced with “Restoring monarchies”
• USA can now break the ceasefire if the PSA is losing against a third party
• New unique American designers
• Removed any mentions of Hitler or Heydrich
• Added a dynamic description to the Siamese engineers event
• Reduced the time for Yunnan's war declarations
• The Brazilian Greenguards idea now has a more fitting effect
• Guatemala will now try to get rid of Monroe as soon as possible
• The UK now gets a claim on South Georgia alongside the Falklands
• Russia will now refrain from attacking Japan while Germany is still alive.
• Increased suppression values for armoured cars, camels, and bicycle battalions
• The Third Internationale will now research oil tech more but has fewer bonuses for it.
• Greece now gets Northern Epirus via the Treaty of Budapest.
• Hawaii now gets two destroyers from each purchase
• Russia's military AI should now focus less on Finland and more on EE
• Changed the Russian attack on Germany to be focus-based
• Occitania has been fully removed
• Ukraine's mission to peace out with Germany now cancels if they reach 50% surrender progress
• AI republican Poland will now wait for the WK to join a faction.
• Foreign volunteers to the CSA are modifiable
• Ulster’s parties have been redone
• Transylvania will no longer rejoin a capitulated Romania.
• TAN can now integrate China if led by a Han regime
• The Gruppa di Difesa Della Donna template added for the SRI is no longer locked
• SRI can no longer join the Third Internationale if it declares war on a fellow socialist country before joining the faction
• All SRI decisions to build factories now require PP and civilian_factory_use, and take longer to build; they no longer need to be done only one at a time, however
• The bonuses provided by many SRI economic and military ideas have been significantly nerfed across the board
• Italian focuses which add resources have been moved to decisions, so they can be available to other tags if/when Italy is united
• Legionary Italy now gets its navy back from Venice, upon taking Venice during the revolt

Fixes
Notable Fixes

• Fixed Portugal not joining the Entente if MAF is dead, again
• The Netherlands no longer trade with their enemies
• Fixed Japan's collapse resurrecting a dead Russia in Transamur
• ROM can no longer release Greater Hungary
• ANI Italy actually tries to beat Venice, for real this time

Other Fixes

• America can now actually ask for their vote back in the Legation Council
• Panama’s politics now make more sense
• Fixed Legation Council vote timer appearing for nations not on the Council
• Norway no longer has identical companies
• Austria can still do their Secret Deal path
• If the Left Kuomintang are a puppet then they will only be able to take Army/Navy/Air national foci to prevent your puppet from doing major changes to their government (1st congress etc) without your knowing.
• Removed the white border around the Hunan flag
• Fixed the resolution of the Rassid Arabia flag
• Fixed Persia returning Herat to Afghanistan
• Fixed MAF-released Rhodesia not owning Nyasaland.
• Fixed a number of XSM typos
• Fixed Persia returning Herat to Afghanistan.
• Fixed France not getting claims on Wallonia if they annex all of Belgium
• Fixed the Dutch Revolution news event using the wrong description
• MAF can no longer release its constituents while at war
• The CSA Constitutional Congress popularity gains now reflect the actual politics
• Fixed a Yunnan focus bypassing incorrectly and added extra AI factors to their war foci
• Post-ACW emergency mobilization is no longer locked
• Fixed and improved the Hunan faction joining decisions
• Fixed the post-Great Game trees' availables
• WIF can no longer get spontaneous coups late game or when a conflicting game rule is enabled.
• Fixed Fate of Kurdistan not transferring the states
• The party popularity GUI now correctly reflects the party providing the PP gain
• Fixed the Brazilian volunteer division not being removed when the ACW ends
• Fixed the CAN-CSA peace triggering the Fall of Boston event incorrectly
• Fixed the terrain around Vancouver
• Fixed the endonym for Kisangani/Stanleyville
• Fixed some misleading tooltips in the Unification Conference starter mission
• Fixed Fengtian being able to join Japan's faction when already in it
• Added an alternative response to the Manchu Campaign news event for their enemies
• No more errors from unplanned offensives
• Fixed Natal's tree being unlocked before the Boer War begins.
• Fixed the Peruvian foreign policy foci.
• Fixed frontline bug in Cabinda
• Fixed a SIK decision giving steel while referring to oil deposits.
• Romania can no longer join the Entente if at war
• The LKMT no longer commits suicide by Japan
• Fixed the inverted BHC civil war leaders.
• State modifiers are no longer overlapping in the UI.
• Some fixes and improvements to the Chinese army reform system.
• Mongolia and Tibet can no longer join the Unification Conference
• Some fixes and improvements to the Chinese army reform system
• Mantetsu is now disabled if Japan dies
• Fixed Russia starting an early WK by attacking Ukraine in the middle of their revolution.
• Fixed a Yunnan focus not accounting for the exiled Federalists
• Fixed Fengtian offering Japan protection
• Fixed a wrong scope error in the UK files
• Fixed and optimised a bunch of EGY-ETH rivalry events
• increased AI CAN emphasis on suppressing Quebec
• Fixed and improved the SAF-ENT peace deal
• Riga now checks if it can actually declare war on Latvia in its focus
• Fixed a broken ANQ tooltip
• Canada can no longer get the Fate of New England
• Fixed the spawns of the Romanian legionary volunteers
• Illyria can no longer release Slovenia
• Fixed the SOV Gosplan idea swaps
• Belgium's AT ideas now give piercing boni instead
• Yunnan's demand events now keep the original government when puppeting Hunan
• MYS core is removed from Malabar Coast once the PRF revolt is done
• Fixed an ANQ flag not being cleared and breaking the Conference event
• Fixed a Greek focus not accounting for the Dodecanese and Cyprus
• France now gets partisan bonuses
• Fixed Edwin Barclay's portrait being overwritten by vanilla's
• Fixed a broken failsafe in the LEP Move Quickly missions
• Fixed a misleading Siamese event option
• Fixed GXC not being able to declare war on FNG
• Fixed original United Front member countries leaving the alliance
• Fixed a post-war CSA event firing mid-ACW
• No more irregular provinces in Zambia
• Some rebalancing of the MAF building slots
• Fixed the Peruvian foreign policy foci
• Fixed Serbia coring Anatolia
• Fixed Tang Jiyao leading two parties at once in the UPC.
• Fixed a Yemeni focus only targeting Oman
• Fixed and improved old Egyptian decisions
• Fixed Egypt instantly getting rid of illiteracy
• Renamed Andalucía to a more fitting name
• Fixed Yunnan being able to peace out with Japan due to Burma
• Fixed a duplicate JAP tooltip
• Fixed Stalin being killed by Patagonia while in Russia
• Bolivia no longer gets the Fate of Northern Chile
• Fixed the USA not being able to purge the Longists
• Fixed a number of BOL bypasses
• When releasing Turkish borderlands with annexation decisions, cores are not granted to neighbors when the states are given to them.
• Fixed KR operatives with non-KR portrait references
• Added missing AI factors to a number of GEA decisions
• Transylvania will no longer rejoin a capitulated Romania
• Fixed a BOL war decision being visible when the targets are already owned
• AI and performance improvements for the Swiss NatPop decisions
• Qing now sends volunteers correctly
• Fixed CAN not being able to release a claimed AST.
• Fixed the Democratic CEN elections
• KMT Yunnan can no longer use the generic Form China decision.
• Fixed Sichuan moving its capital to Chongqing when it's already there
• Fixed a Federalist focus not bypassing properly
• Tried to improve the flow of the United Front code.
• Fixed Mongolia not getting its claims when the Ma Clique sues for peace
• Fixed the layout of the Zimbabwe army tree
• Fixed a number of missing Shan icons
• TAN can now integrate China
• Fixed the missing checks for the formation of the Belgo-Dutch research group
• The RKMT will no longer accept Federalist ultimatums
• Fixed the UPC decisions not showing up correctly
• AI Qing will no longer go for war decisions before 1938
• Fixed MAF claiming Sudan
• Fixed Wallonia not getting cores on Antwerp
• Fixed an unlocalised FRA tooltip and improved the checks on the Phalanstere decisions
• Liberia can now be released normally by NFA, GER or GBR.
• Fixed the QIE ally integration decisions being visible while invalid.
• Fengtian's attack decision now invalidates if the conditions are no longer met
• Fixed Poland getting generic PatAut leaders
• Some improvements and a fix to SQI's German Collaboration mechanic
• Slight fix so Chinese tags don't get claims on their cores
• CSA can no longer get rid of its org debuff before winning the ACW
• Fixed a broken PUE idea desc
• Fixed Fengtian being able to invite Japanese companies while at war with them
• SAF's AI will now prioritise attacking direct neighbours when multiple targets are available
• Fixed SIK keeping the Rumors of Discontent idea after winning the war
• Liangguang now joins its targets' wars when puppeting KMT cliques
• Fixed some TEX decisions not appearing correctly
• Fixed a MTG-only ROM event firing for non-owners
• Fixed two RUS loc bugs
• Fixed a mass replace bug in the ENG naval OOB
• Fixed the Beijing Government reverting to the Qing Empire.
• Fixed Finland's suicidal AI
• Fixed a couple of naval variant bugs
• Fixed the broken targeting for albania.50
• Fixed the CSA being released too late in Landon's route
• Fixed the SAF annexation tree switches
• Fixed the loc for the annexation of Dvinsk
• Increased the AI factor for Romania coring Silistria
• Fixed Egypt instantly getting rid of illiteracy.
• Readded a bunch of missing US company logos
• Fixed socialist SAF getting Nuweweld decisions
• Fixed the Ma Clique peace and collapse events
• Countries will now leave the Kaiser Wilhelm Society when no longer in the Reichspakt.
• Fixed the Italian names of PAP's Catholic divisions
• Fixed Russia not taking the Alands.
• Fixed Manchu SQI causing a focus lockout for the LKMT
• Fixed Wallonia not gaining cores on Liège
• Fixed the double Momentum Lost ideas
• The LKMT can no longer attack FNG before doing the prerequisite focus
• Fixed the SZC NPA focus not allowing for joining it instead
• Fixed Austria not getting a core on Burgenland.
• Fixed FNG not getting cores on China when released by Japan
• XSM will now give Chamdo to Tibet when releasing them
• Fixed the traits of a CHI company
• Fix your eyes, you’ve been reading the patch notes for too long
• Fixed the Roads to Riga idea not being removed if Riga dies
• Removed a meme description from the Persian Balochistan focus
• Fixed the DEI focus tree building factories on INS states
• Fixed a missing Sichuan loc entry and a typo
• Fixed Yunnan not getting claims on Sichuan when forming the KMT government
• Fixed Sichuan retaining cosmetic tags when puppeted
• Fixed Japan getting the Fading Sun after annexation
• Fixed Iceland staying in the Reichspakt's wars after breaking free from Denmark
• Upon completion of the Cod War in Iceland, a unit is generated so that they have some form of defence for naval invasions
• Added missing vanilla tooltip about extra aircrews
• GEA will now lose the Vietcong ideas when peacing out with INC.
• Jerusalem's province is no longer a desert
• Fixed Nasir Shah not keeping his original trait when returning to Kumul
• Reduced Kumul's out of supply boni
• Fixed a MEX idea swap not giving any new modifiers
• Fixed the United Front leader's faction not reforming properly if it was not the original leader of the faction
• Fixed the duplicate decisions for leaving the United Front
• Fixed FOP not being properly released by The Revolution Successful
• Added a bunch of backup countries to Wilhelm's death event, so it finally fires correctly
• Fixed the layout of the Zimbabwe army tree.
• Iraq no longer gets a core on Qassim, and Britain no longer claims Kufra
• Jin Shuren's mission to unify Xinjiang is now removed if Sheng Shicai takes over
• Fixed Long Yun's non-civil war takeover not adding the correct ministers.
• Serbia's decision to attack Austria now has ITA- and POL-specific targeting to preempt issues
• Fixed DDR and GRU getting cores on Memel without owning Königsberg
• Fixed all countries in the world going for Grand Battleplan
• Replaced the UoB's concentrated-dispersed focus dichotomy with another idea level, to avoid needing tech triggers
• Fixed the trigger for the Gumbinnen annexation
• Fixed YUN losing manpower in a civil war event without combat
• Removed a deprecated GER focus to invade Denmark (now better handled by a DEN decision)
• Fixed a POR event referencing the wrong year
• Fixed the POL-UKR peace deal having inverted loc
• Fixed a GXC decision taking two years to complete
• Fixed Japan ceding the Legation Cities to Fengtian via their foci
• Fixed SOM being referred to as an empire
• AI Fengtian will refuse to start the Conference if set to pro-Japan in the game rules
• Fixed the peaceful HOL revolution not loading the socialist tree
• Fixed the Harass Political Enemies decision for Romania decoupling the influence values
• Fixed Serbia attacking Austria during the Venetian war
• Fixed Serbia joining two factions at once
• Fixed RUS not getting resistance on LAT and EST states
• Austria's event to return lands now checks for any puppet- and ally-held areas as well
• SAF is no longer arbitrarily restricted from releasing Namibia or Mozambique
• Fixed Canada not getting the Fate of America
• Fixed SOV's tree being blocked by a player finishing the war too quickly
• Fixed missing infantry equipment bonus to camels (vanilla bug), by adding a new subcategory of mounted infantry (includes camels and cavalry)
• Added missing bicycle and amtrak bonuses to some techs
• Replaced `var:faction_leader` with the new `faction_leader` scope.
• Added missing hardness bonuses to rest of motorized battalions from mech 1
• Your soldiers now can learn both, how to ride a horse and how to shot from AT-rifle (vanilla bug of infantry AT weapons not applying to cavalry, and cavalry not being in category “all infantry”)
• Adjusted airtech window grid to vanilla standards, removing the need to use scrollbars to see scout planes while using FullHD. You can now see all planes in same time
• The Andesian Rebellion events now have localization
• SRI attack decisions will now disappear if the target no longer exists
• If syndicalist France is released after annexation, it is puppeted to the releaser if no faction exists for it to join
• Removed the duplicate SRI decision to join the Phalanstere
• SRI socialist welfare idea now costs consumer_goods_factor instead of adding it
• Additional units are no longer transferred from Legionarry Italy to Venice upon the revolt breaking out; any Italian units left in Venice are teleported away
• Romania’s AI should now core Transylvania much more efficiently

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Let us say, for the sake of a defined point on which to base the argument, Abdulaziz and the Ottoman government manage to get their financial house in order in the 1860s so, while still in debt, by the mid-70s when demands for a formal Constitution start emerging IOTL and the Tanzimat reforms start showing real fruit, they use the opportunity gained from establishing a responsible representative body that would oversee spending to negotiate better terms with its forgien creditors and actually start paying down its Sovereign debt and successfully emerge with a degree of power and respectability to still be considered a part of the "Great Powers Club" (albeit probably at the bottom). In such an instance, where might the higher level Great Powers try to bring under their direct influence/break apart and snatch peices off of as the competition for markets and influence grows? A few possibilities spring to mind...
-Spain has already well and truely fallen into deep debt and political instability while having strategically placed colonies to seize (or develop for a Spain that's a dependent ally/client) such as The Philippines. Of course, Cuba/Puerto Rico are tricky as seizing those by any European power is liable to annoy the US, but could a major power like France or GB feel confident in actually challenging America's claims to exclusive influence in the Western Hemisphere?
-The Netherlands: The Dutch East Indies are potentially highly lucrative, and are mainly a Legacy Colony that the Dutch can't effectively protect. Still, given they're stable and home and geopolitically quite it would be hard to find a good justification and trying to economicly dominate them may be better than military conflict.
-Southernmost South America: Patagonia is up in the air and Argentina/Chile hardly impossible to push around. Not horribly wealthy, but if a nation is looking for a decent place for a Settler Colony (Britain has plenty, but France or Italy may be interested) its probably one place another country is least likely to stop you.
-Austria-Hungary: Really only of interest, strategically speaking, to Germany, Italy, and Russia, but is probably the easiest to carve organic client states out of given post-66' its already failed its centralization experiment
-China: Big market. Obviously hard/next to formally colonize, but an increased focus on carving out commercial spheres of influence, and Russia can probably peel off some outlying territory with a good war.

Hello mongolia! How is everyone doing? I am here today as an ambassador from argentina, wishing everyone here a great day in the name of said subreddit. So, why am I here? argentina has started this community program called "Embajadores de REDDIT" or "Reddit ambassadors", with the objective of visiting the subreddits of different nations so that we can have a friendly interaction and get to know eachother a bit better! This year, I will be argentina's ambassador on this subreddit. During the post, I will be touching different topics. Feel free to skip around them or ask any questions you might have, and I will do my best to respond! And if you have any doubts, interests, or questions that haven't been covered in this post or the comments, please do visit argentina to ask more! We are happy to welcome you!
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The Food
To start, I would love to tell you guys a bit about my country, and as a foodie, I will start with the traditional foods you may find in Argentina. The most common and iconic meal here is the Asado, which is a type of barbeque traditional in southern latin america. You see variations of it in Brazil and Chile, but it is in Argentina and Uruguay where it shines. Given that Argentina is known for its meats, massive pastures, and agriculturally friendly weather, it should come as no surprise that it is tradition here to eat meat in great quantities. There are regional variations on what meats you'll most commonly find, but the typical Asado you will find in the centre of the country (that is to say anywhere between Buenos Aires and Córdoba, two massive cities) is mainly composed of beef and pork, and it is a tradition (one that has been impacted by Covid, sadly) to share the meal with friends and family every sunday! We usually cook the asado on a parrilla (grill) over either a wood or charcoal fire (gas grills haven't caught on here), and the end result is a delicious lunch or dinner.
Now, how do we get all the meat down? Usually, we go for wine, which is another of my country's strong suits. The Andes mountain range works as the geographical backbone of the country, and it is prime ground for wine making, with the province of Mendoza being particularly famous for producing internationally acclaimed wines of amazing taste and quality, but that isn't the only drink we have here. Mate, an infusion made from yerba mate leaves, traditionally drank from a cured gourd which is passed around in a circle, with everyone sharing the same gourd and straw (another covid impacted tradition). It is Argentina's (and southern south america's) version of tea, to give an approximation.
Now, I mentioned regional foods, but these two are eaten everywhere. Truth be told, most "regional" foods in Argentina are found all across the country, only one region tends to consume them much more heavily than others, and one example of this is the empanada. Usually associated with pizza in the plains region of the country, the empanada really shines in the rocky, mountainous steppes of the north west, in the North West region of the country. I had the pleasure of visiting the city of Salta and trying the local empanadas, and I will say there is a reason why that city, and province of the same name, is known for empanadas the same way Mendoza is known for wines, but... What is an empanada? Well, it is a type of dumpling, filled with many possible fillings, although the most common ones are cow meat, ham & cheese, and corn, usually baked in an oven or fried. They are absolutely delicious, and work well as street food, even though you usually get them in sit down restaurants.
That covers the far north, but what about the south? That is where you start losing track of the cow meat in the asados, and goat begins to take its place. The south of argentina, the Patagonia region, is known for its mostly arid and desolate weather, where the grass needed to properly maintain cows is not found, but this lends itself to ovine friendly regions, making goat and sheep the go tos. Traditionally, goat is cooked a little differently, usually roasted whole over an open flame. The gamey flavour of the animal really shines through in Ushuaia, the southernmost city of the country, where you get goat that is fed with rock moss instead of grass, making the meat taste particularly great.
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The Country
Anyway, enough rambling about food. Let's talk hard, cold facts. Argentina is the 8th largest country in the world, spanning 2,780,400 square kilometres in territory. It is divided into 5 regions: The regions of the North West (where you find the best empanadas), North East (where yerba mate comes from), Cuyo (where we make wine), pampeana (the plains/grasslands where cow and pig is the most prevalent, and what got Argentina the nickname of "the world's barn"), and Patagonia (where the goats and whales and penguins are, but we don't eat the last two). We have 210 years as an independent country, but have been around for longer under the kingdom of spain, which we promptly kicked out in 1810, helping kickstart the liberation of the entirety of south america in the process. Our official language is Spanish, although it is not your usual spanish. As an immigration happy country, we had our fair share of migratory waves, one of them being italian. This caused Argentina to develop its own way of speaking spanish, which sounds completely different from the rest of spanish speaking countries (except for uruguay, because they had the same happen to them), yet it still remains perfectly understandable to other spanish speaking nations of the world. Our economy (or what is left of it) is mainly based on agriculture, our culture is infuenced heavily by Spain and Italy in the pampa and cuyo regions, the Patagonia region has a bit more UK and German influence (yes, its because of the nazis), and both regions up north are more influenced by local south american cultures such as the guaraní tribes, as well as the fronteering countries.
As a people we tend to be fairly cheery (except for Córdoba. Those guys are jolly as F**K. They also have a very unique way of speaking that nobody really has a clue as to where it came from), and we have gauchos, which are the south american equivalent to the American Cowboy. The gaucho is a rural man, who lives off of the land, with a strong tradition in farming, cattling, and horse riding (something I will come back to later, as I wanna ask you guys about this). The gaucho is an iconic image in Argentina, always sporting their traditional pants called bombacha de campo, a handkerchief around their neck, a hat or a beret, boots, and the signature facón, an argentinian knife often described as an extension of the Gaucho's hand. A gaucho without a facón might as well be handless, some say. It is the gauchos who helped kick spain out, and make the Asado and Mate what they are today. now, there is a distinction between countryside and city folk here. City folk are your typical "on a rush to work" folk, with no time for bs, and usually hot headed (we are very passionate people), but they still tend to help you if you need directions somewhere without a second thought. Country folk? Those are truly generous, kind, easy going people, although a little more reserved.
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One last fact about Argentina is the flag. Parting with the european tradition of making french flag copycats, or using the red, white and blue colour palet, Argentina had its flag designed by Manuel Belgrano in 1812. The blue and white represent the sky. In the centre, you have el Sol de Mayo (the Sun of May). The flag takes its colours from the sky, but it was actually based on the escarapela (cockade in english), which... we really don't know where it came from, but just like the cordobesian accent, it is here to stay. It was used to show patriotism and support for the independence of the country. A little romantic perspective of the flag is that, no matter where an argentinian is, if he or she looks up at the sky, they will see a part of the argentinian flag.
The Sports
Argentina is well known for our sports. We excell at polo, rugby, hockey, and football, although our national sport is pato (which means duck). As horse happy people, gauchos devised this game in which you ride a horse and have to throw a leather ball with handles into a net. Think of it as a mix between football and quiddich, but with horses instead of brooms. Now, where does the duck come in? Let's just say that the use of a leather ball with handles is a bit more recent than the sport itself. You can fill the blanks there.
I am no expert on sports, but Argentina is very keen to let you know that we LOVE football, and with the recent loss of Diego Maradona, you might have seen what that sport - and that man - means to us. Football here is seen as a way to escape the slums, it is the sport that unites everyone, be it from the richest, to the most poor, and it has shaped argentinian culture to a massive degree. The loss of Diego is truly a massive blow to the morale of the country. He was seen as a god on earth by some, a legend, a hero, and a pain in the ass to the british (something we LOVE to have). Due to his passing, football is going through a tough spot.
Rugby is also on a tough spot but... How do I put this? Currently, the argentinian rugby team didn't homage Maradona, which is the argentinian equivalent of turning a cross upside down in a christian church, and at the start of the year, there was a murder in which 7 rugbiers fought one guy, and by fought I mean they attacked him from the back and kicked him to death on the floor, so rugby is a bit tainted as of late.
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Anyway, enough talking about Argentina for now. I will save some info for the comments.
Mongolia
Here in Argentina, we don't really study much of asian history at school. Can't say I remember studying about Mongolia, which is a shame, as I know your country and culture have been around in one form or another for hundreds, if not thousands of years! Wether it is falconry, throat singing, and as I mentioned before, the absolute mastery of horses, your country is rich in traditions that here in Argentina, we sadly do not know much of. I want to know what you guys would consider interesting about your country! What are your traditions, food, sports? What are some places you would recommend an argentinian to visit? I want to learn more about your culture, your country, and your history. Whatever you guys would like the people of the world to know about you, I am eager to hear it! I hope we can learn from eachother and share a great day!
Some questions I like to ask, especially to countries I don't know much about: Do you have more than one local language? What are some traditional clothes from your culture? What are your traditional foods/dreens/cheeses (for some reason, every country has their own cheese, which I find fascinating)? What is the dumbest thing your country is known for? What stereotypes are true, and which ones are false?
To finish this post, I wanted to thank the moderators for giving me the green light to post this, as well as all of you for taking some time of your day to participate.

Hola everyone! My name’s Taich and I’m here to introduce you to our second Southern Victory Dev Diary, after a long wait. More dev diaries will be published from now on a bit more often (without a precise date for them yet). Today we will be talking about the Argentine Republic and (a bit) about the South American Front.
Late 20s and early 30s in Argentine politics were not stable at all, so it was a very nice challenge to replicate its situation without ever leaving aside what we know from the country in the books. Without further ado, let's get into it!
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Part 1: Aftermath of the Great War

Argentina joined the Entente during the Great War, and ended up invaded by its neighbors. Confederate and British aid were not enough to make a difference against the Chilean and Brazilian armies, which marched into Argentine soil drastically reducing the Entente’s supplies, due to the Brazilian and American blockade.
Strong restrictions were imposed on the losers, reducing their army and economic potential, adding that a part of Patagonia was now totally occupied by Chilean rule under a Military Governorate.
With a very weakened government and morale on the ground, the economic crisis post-war just made things worse. Large groups of workers started to manifest against the current president, all around the country. In 1919, a series of riots and massacres against the workers’ population were held in Buenos Aires, known as the Tragic Week (La Semana Trágica), involving a paramilitary group led by Manuel Carlés, known as the Patriotic League (Liga Patriótica).
Lots of reforms were carried out by Yrigoyen to improve workers conditions, which had a very good impact on society. With the Radical Party figure on the rise due to reforms, and without a strong opposition to defeat them, Marcelo T. de Alvear won the elections in 1922, and Yrigoyen was elected again in 1928, leading to a slow but continuous growth and peace in the streets.
The Market Stock Crash in 1929 paralized the country. Everything went to the ground again, and the people were not ready to face another crisis. Manifestations began again, and incumbent president Hipólito Yrigoyen had to take desperate measures to appease the current situation. With his political figure almost vanished again due to the second economic crisis during his term, the memories of defeat in the Great War and the Tragic Week, some parts of government pressured him to go further against the workers, betraying his will and principles to prevent the manifestations to spiral out of control. Workers' manifestations started to occur almost everyday in different spots of the country, and the security forces were not enough to hold them. A debatable move was carried out by the government, involving President Yrigoyen to logistically and politically support the Patriotic League in order to finish off the leaders of the labor movements. This led to one of the darkest clashes between the civilians and the security forces in Argentina, ending the lives of approximately 25.000 workers, but none of the labor leaders lost their lives, although the majority fled to Patagonia or went to exile in Chile.
That was the breaking point, and the ending of Yrigoyen's political career, which ended up resigning months after, in 1931. Enrique Martínez, the vice president of Yrigoyen, assumed the presidency after the resignation of the Head of State. A lot of concessions were made to the workers to reduce violence and riots at the streets. A Workers bloc, named “Partido Obrero'' was allowed in government, along with more improved workers conditions, vacations and subsidies. These actions taken by the government angered some groups, such as The Patriotic League, which menaced with a military coup. The heads of the paramilitary group were sent to prison in 1932.
Martínez was reelected president in 1934. He kept his appeasement policies to the Workers Party, a group that started to gain a lot of popularity and power in government. In the same year, a mutiny occurred in the prison where Manuel Carlés was imprisoned, allowing him to escape. Small confrontations were held in some spots of Buenos Aires. Since then, The Patriotic League has been reinforcing and gaining more members, pressuring the president. More minor riots between the Patriotic League and members of the Workers Party have been held in the country since 1935.
With that brief explanation of the Argentine situation between 1918-1935, let's get into the spicy stuff now, gameplay-wise.
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Part 2: The Republic Staggers

Argentina is undoubtedly the most industrialized country in the region with a big difference over its neighbors (except Brazil, who can catch up quickly due to the current argentine situation), but their starting situation in 1936 is very fragile: a crippled economy, a divided army, nationalists and leftists trying to seize power, tense relations with Chile and some territorial skirmishes between Paraguay in the north and the Patagonian Governorate in the south.
Main goal of the player in the short term will be trying to fix some of these problems:

1. Resume diplomatic talks with Chile in order to reach an agreement, or break any kind of relationship with them, that’s up to you.
2. Taking a side in Argentine politics: Martínez’s appeasement was clearly not the best option, making everything worse: the power struggle needs a strong leader to fully neutralize internal disputes before it is too late...
3. And last, but not less important: addressing the General Strike of 1936, which fully paralized the Argentine production during late 1935 and January 1936. Hearing what Unionists want might be the best idea unless you want massive riots all around the country.

Let’s suppose everything goes smoothly: you managed to neutralize both extremists sides, achieved a majestic Non-aggression pact with Chile and Unionists are extremely happy with your proposals. Nothing can go wrong, right? It is time for Martínez’s second term to start shining and make Argentina a great power again.
Well… Bad things happen. But don’t worry, Marcelo T. De Alvear will take his place and keep his course… Or maybe not. Unlike Martínez, De Alvear supported a different internal faction of the UCR Party, which was divided from the Yrigoyenists, the Antipersonalists. More conservative-like, and directly opposing the figure of the old president Yrigoyen, the Antipersonalists will begin the first steps in order to rebuild a fractured nation.

Part 3: Reconstructing the Country

Industry
The first steps to rebuild the country will start after choosing between two options: players can either devalue their currency, or try to keep its current course, without earning or losing any benefit.
Industrialization plans shall start after that, developing the interior of the country and also trying to attract investors to the country, who see with good eyes having in their possession the Argentine oil reserves, which haven’t been fully exploited yet.
After finishing the Industrialization focuses, the Exports branch will unlock, granting a series of bonuses to the country thanks to its exports of meat, soy and fish.
Foreign Influence
Entente members, specially the United Kingdom and France to a lesser extent, had a pretty important influence in Argentina, the Railways were privatized around 1880 and passed into the hands of the countries mentioned above, several economic pacts were also signed in order to secure United Kingdom disposal to keep buying Argentine exports at a lower price and the financial debt is always on the prowl.
If the player decides to maintain the Roca-Runciman Pact and signs the Eden-Malbrán pact, Argentina will keep its trade benefits with the United Kingdom, allowing it to deepen the exports concessions. Doing this will obviously drain the Argentine resources, but France and the United Kingdom will reward you with some good bonuses to industry, allowing the country to speed up its recovery and become the most important regional power.
For those who frown upon letting foreign powers intrude on their country, the option to Crack Down on Foreign Monopolies will be unlocked if the Roca-Runciman pact is not extended, leading to the Nationalization of the Railways and searching for new trade partners around the world.
Military
Argentina has too many problems to deal with internally, and the military is one of them too. The Argentine army is split into two internal factions which will collide if several measures are not taken: the more conservative branch of the army led by Agustín Pedro Justo, and the nationalist branch under Arturo Rawson.
Purging a side of the army will eventually prevent them from launching a coup, but will also make you get rid of a plenty of generals and get some debuffs for a long time. If the player decides not to reform the army and does not purge a side, well… good luck with that. You will be hanging on a wire, and even the smallest problem could trigger a coup.
Foreign Policy
No matter the ideology, the entire Argentine population wants one thing: having revenge against the Chileans. What varies is the approach: the Saavedra Lamas Plan created by the awarded diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize winner!) Saavedra Lamas is a diplomatic strategy to defeat Chile by securing alliances with its neighbors, by enacting a Non-aggression pact with Brazil and promising Bolivia to have their rightful territorial claims again. Besides that, under the Foreign Policy branch, players can opt to form their own faction with other South American countries, or fully join the Entente to secure the continent, and maybe retake Falklands peacefully.

Part 4: The Power Struggle

The Patriotic League and the Workers Party
Like I have explained before, Nationalists and Leftists are always seeking to seize power. Granting concessions to one side and crushing the other seems like the best option, but angering a side too much will eventually lead into a coup. If you decide to fully befriend a faction, this will also anger the opposite side! So be careful how you manage it. Decisions to befriend or crush both the Workers Party and the Patriotic League will be unlocked once the Power Struggle focus is completed, but its support will vary from the start of the game through events and focuses.
Following the Power Struggle Branch, the political branch will begin with two options: Bolster the Workers Party, giving them even more influence in Congress, or either trying to reduce it, securing Conservative and Nationalist support.
By supporting the Workers Party it is nothing but going for a Socialist state. There is no going back: it is up to you to wait for it or speed things up by completing Red Dawn focus.
Reducing Socialist Influence is the opposite outlook to the focus mentioned above, leading to another two options: players can either Ban the Patriotic League to prevent them from launching a coup and try to maintain a democratic government, or ally them by merging the different nationalists groups of Argentina: the Patriotic League, Conservatives and the Nationalist Youth. Doing this will undoubtedly end with the Republic.
Reaching the end of both political extremist sides will eventually unlock new paths.
The Revolutionary Ashes
If you thought that only the Military, Nationalists and Socialists wanted to seize power, you are wrong. There are some guys that would like to take control too: the Anarcho-Syndicalists. With most of their leaders exiled in Chile or hidden in Patagonia, they are waiting for the perfect moment to launch their attack. Allied with the Workers Party, they do not have a strong influence in Congress but the will of the masses are enough to prepare a rebellion if the government isn’t capable of solving the population’s problems.
Antonio Soto, the main leader of the rebellion which started in 1920 is well hidden in Patagonia, but everything can change if the player decides to approach him. Maybe he isn’t a bad guy at all and just wants workers to be treated better in the south, right? Take him on a train to Buenos Aires for a meeting with the president.
Wait… How did everyone know that the president just had a private meeting with a fugitive revolutionary leader? The Military isn’t going to like that at all, and the Patriotic League either…
Good luck fixing that mess, Mr. President.

Part 5: Finishing off

Reaching the end of today’s progress report, that was the overview of one of the upcoming South American nations in the next update of Southern Victory (Yes, there will be more).
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I just wanted to throw some ideas out for Latino cultures; I think the initial release would only have Mexico, Argentina and Brazil on it ; maybe Gran Colombia as a wildcard and for its popular demand on similar games; so I wanted to show some ideas for other Latino cultures that could be added. (I still made my predictions of how Mexico, Argentina and Brasil would work)
Industrial Era:
Culture: Gran Colombia
E.U: Llanero: Coming from the Llanos region of the Orinoco; Llaneros were outlaws that roam the moorlands of what its today Colombia and Venezuela
E.Q: Hacienda: Inland estates build by the Spanish that worked as self-sufficient farms and factories, Haciendas were built on most Latino American countries and after independence of many countries, hacienda were still used.
Type: Expansionist
Culture: Rio De la Plata: I add them for two reasons; 1) they are what Gran Colombia is for Colombia, Venezuela, and the other Countries that were part of gran Colombia, but to the Southern Cone countries, making them relevant for the Patria Grande ideology. 2) as a Latino who lives in South America, Argentina is usually look as one of the most advances countries of South America both in education and culture, so I think they fit better as Contemporary culture.
E.U: Gaucho: A term to refer people living on the moorlands of the southern cone, combining the horse riding brought by the Spanish with the boleadoras of the indigenous people of the Patagonia region; Gauchos were skilled skill as rangers.
Note: Gauchos cannot be the Argentinian E.U if they are cotemporary.
E.Q: Estancia: On the Southern Cone, Estancias were rural states used for animal husbandry, specially cattle and sheep; but it was also use as stable for horses
Type: Militaristic
Culture: Paraguay
E.U: Aca Caraya: Calvary used on the Triple Alliance war, used as escort for Francisco Solano, they prove to be loyal and effective while fighting alongside their president; the Aca Carava is guarani for “Shinning Helmet”
E.Q: Guarani Jesuit Reduction (Misiones Jesuitas Guarani): Build by the Spanish for conversion of Guarani people to Christianism, this massive mision also was used as a small settlement where labor was used for food surplus; around 7 of this type of misiones were constructed on Paraguay; After the expulsion of the Spanish, this site became towns for the mestizo population.
Type: Aesthete
Culture: Bolivia
E.U: Colorado: A military corps used during the Independence of Upper Peru, later still used by Bolivia on multiple wars against neighboring countries, resisting against their expansion; starting as guerrilla and ending up as personal guards for the Bolivian president.
E.Q: El Tío: During colonial times, the mines of Potosi were one of the biggest sources of silver for the Spanish, exploiting the indigenous people to work on this dangerous mines, the Spanish implanted multiple statues of demon-like figures to scare the recently converted indigenous people into working hard in the mines; after the independence of Bolivia, Potosi remain an important mine for the country, and the demon statues of the mine had been adopted by the population and the miners as a deity of mines that had to be respected, the now named El Tío (the uncle) became an deity born from the syncretism of indigenous and catholic beliefs; for miners, El Tío statues are a sacred place, where they usually leave booze and cocas leaves to appease the god ; during catholic festivities, a llama is sacrifices at the entrance of the mines to appease El Tío, this practices still hold up to this day.
Type: Agrarian
Culture: Chile
E.U: Primera Escuadra Nacional: The first Naval squadron used by the Chileans during their independence; this vessel dominated naval battles against the Spanish and were later used on other countries like Peru for their independences.
E.Q: Chilotan Architecture: An Architectural style and school that originated on the Chiloé Archipelago; characterized by the use of wood as their main material, born from the syncretism of Spanish and Native architecture, this style made a multiple Wooden Churches and stilted houses on the coast of the archipelago; protected by the UNESCO as a heritage site.
Type: Builder
Culture: Perú
E.U: Rabona: Woman who helped and accompanied the Peruvian and Bolivian infantry on campaigns, appearing since independence wars, this woman served as logistic unit during civil wars, attending the male infantry, but still Rabona were armed and fought themselves during battle.
Rabonas were usually of mestizo origins and fought alongside their husbands.
E.Q: Andean Baroque Church: An Mestizo Architectural style originated on the Andean regions of Peru and Bolivia, inspired by Baroque Churches; this churches were adapted to their highland Andean locations, still different from its European origin, indigenous motifs like images of the sun, the moon and native flora and fauna of the area decorated the church.
Type: Aesthete
Cotemporary Era
Culture: Argentina
E.U: Lipán M3: An unmanned aerial vehicle created by the Argentinian military since the 1996; these were the first of its kinds on South America after their implementation on 2008; been the first aerial combat intelligence aircraft produce by Argentina.
E.Q: Salón de Tango: Born at Rio De la Plata from the mix of African. Indigenous and European dances, Tango has become cultural phenomenon that has characterized Argentinian culture on modern and cotemporary times; becoming an UNESCO Cultural Heritage piece, making Tango and the place where its both learned and shown, a part of Argentinian identity.
Type: Scientific o Aesthete
Culture: México
E.U: Adelitas: During the Mexican revolution, Adelitas join the battlefield of the revolution, working as both nurses and infantry; notable Adelitas like Petra Herrera and Maria Quinteras de Mera fought for fiercely for their causes.
E.Q: Cantina: On the rural areas of Mexico, cantina became a usual place for the working class and campesino men to frequently eat and drink, during revolution times, these places became important for the revolutionary working class, where they talked about their disdain towards the government and the treatment they got from their hard work.
Type: Militaristic
Culture: Colombia
E.U: Fierros: A word used on the countryside to refer firearms; the Colombian guerrillas are among the longest lasting one of the Cotemporary world, starting from Campesino origins who fought against the latifundio system of ownership; forming armed groups to protect themselves for their ideology; after the historic day of El Bogotazo, the period known as La Violencia started on Colombia; where all of the armed campesino groups escaped to the mountains and formed guerrillas like the FARC; with the decades of guerrilla warfare and the introduction of narcotraffic, a lot of guerrillas forgot their initial causes, turning into corrupt groups.
The term Fierro was used by Colombian writer Alfredo Molano on his book “Aqui les dejo esos Fierros”a book that talks about the current problematic of social reintegration of ex-guerrilleros to society. (Note: as a Colombian, the term Guerrilla has a lot of weight to it, but it would be dishonest to give a blind eye to Guerrillas, as they had shaped current day Colombia.
E.Q: Eje Cafetero: Known by the UNESCO as the Colombian Coffee Growing Axis, is listed as a cultural and heritage site of agrarian landscape; coffee has become and emblematic product of Colombia and major part of its exportation, the Eje Cafetero shows the adaptation of coffee plantation of Andean terrain, beside show great value in quality of harvest and shorter harvesting periods.
Type: Agrarian
Culture: Venezuela
E.U: Tanques Tortuga: This “Tanks” were produced in 1934; this weren’t actually tanks, but an armored car with a bizarre and bulky design; presented with another group of antiair armored cars; this cars were paraded in 1934.
For its bizarre and non-ergonomic design, this car did not see much light on the battlefield, only in 1945 there are written accounts of their uses in military combat, but their true use was as fear tactics towards Colombian military forces, who treated after they victory against Peru.
E.Q: La Petrolia : Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world and the exportation of this product help the country economy; La Petrolia is an historic and recreational complex, recognized as the first oil well area of Venezuela, dating from 1882, La Petrolia shows a collection of old oil wells and industrial zone where the product was storage at; been an educational place to see where the industry started.
Type: Merchant
Culture: Panamá
E.U: NeoPanamax: Panamax is a term to describe cargo ships that follow the strict requirements of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP); this ships have special requirements on Tonnage, Lengths and many other aspects; a New Panamax or NeoPanamax is a new and more contemporary kind of ship installed by the ACP after the “Panama Canal Expasion Project” proposed on 2006; the new models of NeoPanamax were first used at 2016, been a far superior version of the Panamax.
E.Q: ACP Administration: After the new constitution of Panama and the Torrijos-Carter treaties signed at 1977, Panama was able to gain full control of the Panama Canal from the US, starting in 1999, with full control the canal, it became part of the patrimony of the country and the ACP (Autoridad del Canal de Panama) was installed, making the canal more sufficient, safe and finally controlled by Panamanians.
Type: Merchant
Culture: Nicaragua
E.U: Sandinista: The Sandinista Revolution took place from 1979 to 1990, in which Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional put an end to the dictatorship of the Somoza family, acting as guerrilla and inspired by the Cuban revolution, this group took the name from Augusto Cesar Sandino, a revolutionary from 1933 who fought against the US occupation of Nicaragua.
E.Q: Colección Modernista: Modernismo became a literary movement of poetry from 1888 to 1917, consisting of mostly Latino writers from different countries; the most famous and consider father of movement was Ruben Dario, a poet of Nicaraguan origin; Modernism is identified for taking pride of national Latino identities as one of their main focus, ideas of rebellion and erotism.
Ruben Dario and Modernista Poetry became important part of Nicaragua cultural identity.
Type: Aesthete
Culture: Cuba
E.U: Rio Damuji-Class Frigate: Build up from old Spanish fish crawler, these vessels became the biggest of the Cuban Navy.
E.Q: Hospital Panamericano: Before the Revolution, Cuba did had some great hospital and health facility born from Pan-American Generation (1930 – 1945); a generation of architects and engineers whose maybe goals was to improve the infrastructure of their countries and keep a national identity while doing it; Cuba was part of this with the construction of hospital for tuberculosis; a stand out from these hospital is Hospital de la Maternidad Obrera, constructed by architect Emilio de Soto; a hospital that was made with the qualities need to attends the wives of the working class and had some inspiration in Art Deco.
After the revolution ended, the new Cuban government started to missions that would mark Cuba in contemporary, curing both the sick and ending illiteracy; which Cuban people were able to achieve with hard years of work; especially on the medicine advances, Cuba has become one of the top Latin-American country for the study of health sciences, been the ELAM their greatest achievement on medical study.
Type: Scientific
Culture: Brazil
E.U: Pracinha: A military group send by Brazil to assist the allies in battle during WWII; deployed in places like Italy, this unit helped on campaigns and in the taking of Axis prisoners.
E.Q: Sambadrome: The physically place where Brazilian Carnivals, like Rio’s Carnival take place, consisting of the view area for the main parade and a long pathway for the performers to walk through; Sambadrome also is term to identify Samba schools, which usually are the performing troops in carnivals.
Type: Aesthete

A common trait Assassin’s Creed groups have is the constant theorizing about future settings, because historical tourism is one of the best parts of the series. This series of posts will act as a counter to my Mildly Obscure setting discussions, but rather than looking at a single point, I generally take a broad setting that is popular and looking at several potential settings to explore within it, but instead wants to bring up a single setting I’ve seen discussed in multiple groups, posts, and articles: Simon Bolivar’s charge for the independence of South America.
Venezuela was a colony under Spain who was fighting France in the early 19th century during the Napoleonic Wars. As a young man, Simon Bolivar, then in Italy for studies, witnessed Napoleon being declared King of Italy, and despite distaste for him and other despots - wishing for independence for his native Venezuela combined with the unification of South America - he admired how the people cheered for Napoleon. He returned to Venezuela in 1807 only for Spain to be invaded by France creating a power vacuum in Spanish-controlled Americas. In April of 1810, the municipality of Caracas held a successful movement to depose the Spanish Governor and Captain-General. More municipalities followed suit, and on July 5th, 1811, Venezuela declared its independence. During this time, the UK began invading Dutch-owned Suriname and French Guinea. Many slaves began to escape during the few years Britain fought for control, and despite ceding back to the Dutch and French, there were so many slave escapes they formed a colony called Inini in southern French Guinea, made up mostly of the Maroons. As we know from Freedom Cry and Rogue, the Maroons were heavily tied to the Assassins, and perhaps this acted as an Assassin State.
Bolivar became a Colonel under Francisco de Miranda, but after several major losses, Miranda signed a capitulation agreement with Royalist Frigate Captain Domingo de Monteverde in June of 1812. Bolivar, seeing this as an act of treason, mutinied and with several men arrested Miranda and handed him over to the Spanish. Despite protesting from Bolivar, the Spanish basically gave him a passport and told him to leave the country. Bolivar went west and in 1813 gained Military command of Tunja in New Granada. Starting in May of that year, he marched his forces back east into Venezuela beginning his Admirable Campaign. He arrived in Merida, Venezuela on the 24th of May, heralded as “The Liberator”. To the east, Santiago Marino began a campaign as well, dividing Spanish troops as he marched on Maturin.
Bolivar arrived in Trujillo in early June to learn of Spanish massacres of the revolution’s supporters and war-related atrocities. As a result, he gave his famous “Decree of War to the Death” allowing for the execution of any Spaniards who did not actively support the war. Caracas was recaptured on August 6th, 1813 but not held for long. Spanish General Jose Tomas Boves continued assaults against the Second Republic of Venezuela forcing Bolivar to flee back to New Grenada. Boves would be killed in battle in December of 1814 (perhaps an assassination?), but his troops would still win the Battle of Urica and retake Caracas and Valencia, during which Jose Felix Ribas, a high ranking military officer under Bolivar was killed.
Bolivar would flee to Bogota (which contained an Isu Vault) before Spanish forces would force him to Jamaica and then to Haiti where successive assassination attempts would force him into hiding, aided in part by Haiti’s new president Alexandre Petion. While I am focusing on the northern half of South America, at this time all of Spain’s holdings in America were in Revolt. Even Portugal was in the process of losing Brazil. In Argentina Manuel Belgrano and Jose de San Martin led the struggle for independence, drawing in Chileans for support. Argentina was largely free by 1818, but they continued their war into Peru and Chile which was then devolving into a civil war between peasants and royalists. José Gervasio Artigas led a charge in Uruguay for independence which was being fought over by Brazil and Argentina. In 1820, Artigas’ advance on Argentina led Belgrano to counter, and his troops mutinied. He died several days later due to fluid retention from injuries. Artigas lost support and withdrew from political life, but the control over Uruguay escalated for several more years during the Cisplatine War. The UK would eventually negotiate the Treaty of Montevideo in 1828 which declared Uruguay independent. This would likely be better as part of a game about the Empire of Brazil as posted above.
Bolivar eventually gained Petion’s support in guns, men, and ships to retake Venezuela, and the only promise Bolivar made was that Slavery would be abolished in any lands he retook. Bolivar resumed his campaign in 1816 starting with an expedition of the Keys and eastern Venezuela while Manuel Piar took Guyana. In early 1817, Piar laid Siege to Angostura and captured it on April 11th. Bolivar promoted him to General for this, unaware that Piar had been coordinating with José Félix Ribas, Santiago Mariño, and José Francisco Bermúdez for years due to political disagreements with Bolivar. Piar’s disagreements with Bolivar had him step down and led to him escalating his plans. In October of 1817, Bolivar had Piar arrested for treason and executed on October 17th by firing squad; knowingly sparing the other conspirators. This feels like a perfect AC sequence.
Following success in New Granada, Bolivar had used this land to begin to declare the slaves to be free, establishing the Third Republic of Venezuela, and then a national congress of Angostura. In 1819, Bolivar was elected as President of New Granada with Francisco Antonio Zea as his VP. As a result, Bolivar focused first on the liberation of New Granada and Venezuela second. Marching over the Andes, Bolivar won the Battle of Boyacá consolidating power in New Grenada and making Francisco de Paula Santander VP in New Granada. He marched back to Angostura and formally created the Republic of Columbia before beginning a mission to take back Caracas and the coast of Venezuela from General Borillo. Despite several treaties for peace, Bolivar led the Battle of Carabobo and entered Caracas on June 29th, 1821. The state of Gran Columbia was then officially declared by the second congress, with Bolivar as the president and Santander VP. Zea would become a diplomat and go to the UK where he was killed in a bathhouse that year.
Bolivar next focused on Peru and Ecuador with the battles of Battle of Bombona and the Battle of Pichincha allowing him to enter Quito in June of 1822. Jose de San Martin was the “Protector of Peruvian Freedom” at the time following success in Chile and Argentina. Both Ecuador and Peru had strong royalist factions though leading to the July meeting of Bolivar and San Martin at the Guayaquil Conference. A Venezuelan and Argentinian walk into a room diametrically opposed foes. They emerge with a compromise, having opened doors that were previously closed, bros. The Venezuelan emerges with the nation’s military, and here’s the pièce de résistance! No one else was in the room where it happened! No one really knows how the game is played, the art of the trade, how the sausage gets made. We just assume that it happens. But no one else is in the room where it happens.
San Martin exiled himself to France after the meeting, with Bolivar now the liberator of Peru. He continues some campaigns in the north, focusing first on finishing the Ecuadorian War for Independence with his new ally Antonio Jose de Sucre. José de la Riva Agüero, president of Peru, begins losing battle after battle, asking Bolivar and Sucre to come further south for assistance. Jose de la Mar, division General under San Martin, and former royalist, was on the Supreme Governing Board of the Republic of Peru when this request was made. Bolivar would enter Alto Peru and lead several victories against the Spanish along with Dom Pedro I who had been fighting in the region for several years. Bolivar personally led the Battle of Junin while Sucre led the battle of Ayacucho. With these victories, Peru was mostly secure by 1825. Though it would be another year until the last Spanish fort fell. Peruvians may have been soured to Bolivar, though, as he reportedly plundered churches for supplies along the way.
Dom Pedro would leave to fight in Brazil while the county of Charcas, now free from Spanish, was resisting both Peru and Argentina. Despite Bolivar believing the country should go to Peru, it led a vote to declare independence and signed its declaration on August 26th, 1825 naming the country after him. He remained in Bolivia for several months, lowering taxes and starting the country while Sucre led the armed forces of Bolivia killing General Pedro Antonio Olañeta securing freedom. Bolivar would leave to go back to Gran Columbia leaving Sucre as president, who would create a constitution in 1828.
Andres de Santa Cruz was president of Peru but quickly ousted by Jose de la Mar who was President for 2 years during Sucre’s Presidency and was ultimately fine with Bolivia existing, despite General Agustin Gamarra dissenting. As a result, Gamarra began to undermine Bolivia beyond his legal rights, attempting to assassinate Sucre. Following the attempt and anti-Bolivar sentiment, Sucre stepped down as President, leaving for Ecuador. Gamarra thus staged a coup and forced de la Mar out of office, fleeing to Gran Columbia in 1829. After a brief battle, he fled to Costa Rica where he died a few months later. Gamarra then set his army on Bolivia now ruled by Santa Cruz who forced out the invasion. Santa Cruz would stabilize the new country with reforms and the formation of new ports. Despite Gamarra’s attempts, peace was eventually negotiated in 1836. Sucre traveled to New Grenada in 1830 where he was assassinated during a conspiracy to kill him and Bolivar in part led by Jose Maria Obando.
Bolivar was not having a good time anymore though. Upon his return in 1826, Venezuela broke into large scale riots and rebellion. As soon as Venezuela calmed down, Columbia erupted much the same way. In 1828 Bolivar attempted to force a convention to create a new constitution, but the convention ultimately failed to write anything other than an extremely federalist constitution with the presidency for life. Bolivar was once again declared president as a temporary fix, leading to an assassination attempt thwarted by his “Liberatrix for the Liberator” lover, Manuela. This was the September Conspiracy and led by supporters of Santander for president, who was also accusing Bolivar of betraying republican principles. A few months later, disdain was rising for Bolivar who was accused of trying to create a dictatorship, and Peru under Gamarra invaded Ecuador. Sucre did win the Battle of Tarqui on behalf of Bolivar following de la Mar’s fleeing to Costa Rica. Ultimately Peru left the war at that and let Gran Columbia keep its land.
On January 30th, Bolivar stepped down as President of Gran Columbia, asking for the union to stay together. Within several months, however, his dream of a united South America died as the Gran Columbia split into the republics of Ecuador, New Grenada, and Venezuela. Santander became president of Venezuela while Jose Obando, who had Sucre assassinated, became president of New Grenada. Simon Bolivar died of tuberculosis in December of 1830. I personally feel like both Bolivar and Sucre would be assassin sympathizers but could perhaps get lost from the power lust leading to them needing to be assassinated, or something similar to that.
Despite the 20 years of war, not all of South and Central America were free. Royalist Outlaws and Bandits like the Pincheira Brothers moved to Patagonia in late 1820 until 1832 when Chile and Argentina moved south and forcibly ended the outlaw’s reign. The collapse of the Bourbon Dynasty in 1830 and the death of Ferdinand in 1833 left the Spanish Empire not caring about its former holdings in the Americas. In 1835, Spain formally recognized every free country other than Cuba and Puerto Rico which remained in Spanish holdings until the Spanish-American War in 1898. Personally, I think the end of the wars and destruction of the Pincheira Brothers could be a fascinating DLC. Not only is there a vault near modern-day Puerto Deseado, but the brothers allegedly had a hideout possibly filled with riches called the Cueva de Los Pincheira in Chile. There’s also the possibility of showing the lost city of gold, El Dorado, if not near the mouth of the Amazon in Brazil, perhaps in Peru near Lima or near Bogota in Columbia.

Kaiserreich Beta 0.10 - ‘Blood on the Yangtze’
We are out of alpha! Welcome to the first beta version of Kaiserreich for Hearts of Iron 4. We are so happy to be here and couldn’t be more proud of all the work that has been done to get here. We never would have got here without one of the most amazing and passionate communities in all of gaming. Thank you. This update is our largest ever, with no less than 17 pages of changes. Highlights include, of course, the long awaited China update, the Italian rework, new naval changes, our largest ever performance improvement, an insane number of bug fixes and huge quality of life changes. More than ever before, we hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich!
The KR4 team
P.S. We owe a massive thanks to Dayshine, among others, who have been working on CWTools. It has been an invaluable tool for us and we encourage modders from all Paradox games to make use of it.
P.P.S. We are aware of many people still having trouble with the new launcher. We believe we have identified, and fixed, the cause of some of the issues, though not all. If you are still having trouble, we have written up a guide which we hope will be of some use: https://kaiserreich.fandom.com/wiki/Troubleshooting_the_HoI4_Launcher
Changes
Notable Additions

• Industry technologies values in KR are now in line with the vanilla ones, i.e. instead of 10% you now get 20% of new building slots per state in every tech.
• Stability has been changed to be less lopsided; the effects at 0% stability are -20% factory/dockyard output, -10 organisation, and -10% political power gain, and at 100% stability are +20% factory/dockyard output, +10 organisation, and +10% political power gain. The USA and Germany stability debuffs were changed to accommodate this.
• The endonym/exonym game rule has been removed. The system can now be switched on and off via a button in the UI. News event settings have also been moved to a button.
• Political ministers can no longer be added manually so performance cost-heavy checks could be removed. Removed the intelligence minister and theorists. This has lead to sizable (up to a 15% raw improvement, though your mileage may vary) performance improvements.
• Most (though not all) volunteer events removed, replaced by an improved ai volunteer system.
• Fixed some major supply zone issues across the globe, supply now works a lot better.
• Added custom tile pictures to major cities.

The Italian Update

• Italian states can now peacefully reunify once the SRI is defeated.
• All Italian war and diplomacy focuses have been transferred to decisions.
• The Venetian Revolt has been reworked. Now Venice will only rise up in Veneto, but will receive foreign aid after 180 days. 180 days after that, if they have not won yet, they annex Italy. Then they can either restore the Italian Federation or release Lombardy and go their own way.
• ANI Italy can now join the Belgrade Pact
• The Neo-Sanfedisti event chain has been reworked to provide more benefits for the Papal States and Sicily if they support the rebels in the SRI.
• The Papal State is now a Sicilian puppet, and can break free or be annexed by decision after certain points in the game.
• The Papal States will now only support the Neo-Sanfedisti after 1938.
• The Two Sicilies have had their faction joining changed to decisions, and require the entire political tree to be completed.
• Two Sicilies has received a new land reform tree.
• The Italian Republic now starts as an Austrian puppet, but will break free following Black Monday.
• The Italian Republic’s government can fall after the 1937 elections if the democratic parties win, leading either to a restoration of the Italian Federation, or devolution into Lombardy and Venice.
• The Socialist Republic of Italy has had their tree simplified.

Naval Rework 3.0

• Ship equipment was completely revamped to be in line with Vanilla and easy to maintain in cases of further changes to the naval system from PDX side.
• MTG system is now extremely similar to vanilla, we have just some extra modules and PZS hull is considered as heavy hull
• There shouldn't be any non-buildable ships for Non-MTG players
• All variants were changed from generic to the nation unique (based either on vanilla representation of pre PoD ships or on first naval rework lore for KR timeline unique ships)
• Added first glimpses of MTG version of ship name lists (for China tags, JAP and AUS)

Added Focus Trees to:

• Anqing Clique
• Bhutan
• East Turkestan
• Guangdong
• Guangxi Clique
• Kumul Khanate
• League of Eight Provinces
• Left Kuomintang
• Ma Clique
• Manchuria (Puppet)
• Shan Confederation
• Shandong Clique
• Shanxi Clique
• Sichuan Clique
• State of Kachin
• Tibet
• Xinjiang Clique
• Yunnan Clique

Reworked/expanded focus trees of:

• Austrian Empire
• Brazil
• Chile
• Combined Syndicates of America
• Emilia
• Fengtian Government
• German East Asia
• Japan
• Legation Cities
• Lombardy
• Mongolia
• Pacific States of America
• Poland
• Qing
• Republic of Italy
• Socialist Republic of Italy
• Switzerland
• Transamur
• Two Sicilies
• Union of Britain
• United States of America
• Venice

Added Events to/for:

• Anqing Clique
• Austria
• Bhutan
• East Turkestan
• Fengtian Government
• Guangdong
• Guangxi Clique
• Hunan
• Italian Republic
• Italian Reunification
• Kumul Khanate
• League of Eight Provinces
• Left Kuomintang
• Legation Cities
• Ma Clique
• Mongolia
• Qing
• Shandong Clique
• Shanxi Clique
• Sichuan Clique
• Switzerland
• Tibet
• Transamur
• Two Sicilies
• United Kingdom
• Venice
• West Indies Federation
• Xinjiang Clique
• Yunnan Clique

Added Decisions to/for:

• Anqing Clique
• Austria
• Bhutan
• Chile
• Chinese Reunification
• Commune of France
• East Turkestan
• Fengtian Government
• German East Asia
• Guangdong
• Hunan
• Italian Republic
• Italian Reunification
• Japan
• Kumul Khanate
• League of Eight Provinces
• Left Kuomintang
• Legation Cities
• Lombardy
• Ma Clique
• Members of the Legation Council
• Mongolia
• Qing
• Shandong Clique
• Shanxi Clique
• Sichuan Clique
• Switzerland
• Tibet
• Transamur
• Transamur
• Venezuela
• Venice
• Xinjiang Clique
• Yunnan Clique

Added Custom Paths to/for:

• Bolivia
• Chile
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• Paraguay
• Patagonia
• Qing
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Mapping

• Major map changes in China
• Major map changes in Spain
• Major map changes in the Middle East
• Overhauled Austrian, Balkan and Eastern European strategic regions
• Fixed several misaligned river mouths
• Merged Trieste into the Austrian Littoral
• Split Bucovina into Northern and Southern Bucovina
• Redid Baltic state boundaries
• Added Trento and Pola as new VPs for Austria.
• Added Sopron/Ödenburg and Târgu Mureș/Marosvásárhely as new VPs for Hungary.
• Added Slovak renaming.
• Added German, Polish, Ukrainian and Romanian renaming for Slovakia and Hungary where appropriate.
• Adjusted the Finnish-Russian border in Karelia
• Added correct jungle terrain to Southeast Asia
• Split off Gambia from Senegal
• Removed several small island states
• Fixed broken frontlines along the French-Belgian and Serbian-Bulgarian borders

GFX

• Added new portraits for Italian countries
• Removed vanilla portraits in American (CSA, AUS, PSA,USA) countries and replaced them with KR appropriate portraits.
• Redid many portraits, including: Francisco Franco, Phillipe Petain, Gustaf Adolf, Clement Attlee, Claude Auchinleck, Tom Phillips, John Tovey, Louis Mountbatten, Kenneth Stuart, Georges Valois, John Winant, Prajadahipok, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Phraya Phahon, Gearoid O Cuineagain, Leon Jouhaux, Yevhen Konovalets, Mykhailo Omelianovych Pavlenko, Hnat Stefaniv, Christian X, Alan Brooke, John Dill, Richard O’Connor, Tom Wintringham, Nguyen An Ninh, Tadeusz Rozwadowski, Witold Pilecki, Anatoly Pepelyaev, Mohammed V, Souphavong Andriy Melnyk, Petar Bojovic, Duarte II, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Marmaduke Grove, Benoit Frachon, Maurice Gamelin, António Carmona, Bento António Gonçalves, Joseph August von Habsburg, Alphonse Georges.
• Replaced Switzerland’s starting Council portrait with a Swiss Coat of Arms.
• Added many new unit models, most courtesy of MI2 by McNaughton
• Redid and added many focus and idea icons
• Added many new event pics
• Added many new decision icons

Music Mod

• Please note that we are delaying the update to the music mod by a few days to let us deal with any issues with the main mod first. Sorry for the slight delay there.
• “Reflection of the Moon in the Erquan Pool” is the new main theme
• Added 7 Insulindian songs
• Added 2 KMT military songs
• Added 5 peace songs for China

Miscellaneous
Western Europe

• Changed Switzerland’s SocLib party from ‘Landesring der Unabhängigen’ to ‘Liberale Partei der Schweiz’.
• The Savoyard Crisis will now not contribute to world tension if it never escalates.
• Converted Switzerland’s foreign policy from focuses to decisions.
• Commune of France and Union of Britain now start on partial mobilization.
• Added more steel to Luxemburg and Flanders-Wallonia.
• Rebalanced Switzerland’s ‘New Order’ decisions to make it actually possible to secure the government and take ‘Greater Switzerland’.
• Henri Guisan can no longer be elected General in NatPop Switzerland due to his Romand origins, and Syndicalist Switzerland will no longer elect a general.
• Denmark will now always simply join the Reichspakt during the Weltkrieg unless they are ruled by the social democrats to prevent issues with events that didn’t anticipate this behavior.
• Added annexation mission for Alsace-Lorraine.
• Removed a few small chances for the AI to start WK2 early over small diplomatic incidents.
• Expanded Switzerland’s national populist path
• The Kaiser Wilhelm society now exists at game start
• Germany is no longer locked out of the Walloon annexation event
• The British and French each have focuses to initiate returning their colonies that they occupy to each other once the mainlands are reclaimed.
• Changed Germany’s IG Farben focus
• Germany can no longer invite Iron Guard Romania to the Reichspakt when it is a faction other than the Belgrade Pact
• Touched up the Savoie Crisis chain
• Changed the name of the Belgian-Dutch alliance to BeNeSam

Eastern Europe

• Annexation mission for the United Baltic Duchy has been added for Germany.
• Added several flavor events for Lithuania
• Redid annexation missions for the south Slavic states
• Russia can now directly attack White Ruthenia instead of buying state bonds when White Ruthenia is socialist and they are not
• Germany now revokes its guarantee on Azerbaijan if they refuse to defend them from Persia
• Russian/Soviet general transfers no longer leave some in both countries
• Changed Russian focuses related to China
• Poland now starts with Chelm
• Performance optimisation for Russian events and focuses
• Russian civil war ideas are removed via annexation
• Fixed focus available conditions for Poland
• Removed Molotov-Ribbentrop line from Poland and Galician states
• Russia now no longer joins the internationale via “Deal With the Devil”, it just enters the war
• Removed the Russian focus to join the Internationale - Syndie Russia can still join under the proper circumstances via event
• Cut the Ukranian Civil War
• White Ruthenia’s focus tree times have been shortened (70 to 56)

Southern Europe

• Annexation missions for Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and Transylvania have been added for the Austrian Civil War.
• Release events for Slovakia will now take into account the status of Southern Slovakia and Transcarpathia
• National France now begins the game controlling Malta.
• Austria now is made aware of its influence in Italy
• Bulgaria now takes Nis and Macedonia from Serbia when it has lost them then later goes to war against Serbia with Austria
• Serbia and Bulgaria are now notified when Romania leaves the Belgrade Pact
• Moved Greek Megali claims to an event
• Added annexation missions to Macedonia and Dobrogea
• Serbia can no longer release Croatia
• Greece and Romania can now end its war with Bulgaria parallel to the Balkan war when it does not join the Belgrade Pact at the same time as Serbia.

Northern Europe

• Added a news event for Wilhelm II’s death.
• Cut the “Every King a Turn” focus in Scandinavia for now as it has been causing unwanted results.

North America

• West Indies Federation can now peace out with Canada via event once they take the “Join the Internationale” focus.
• Canada can now release the USA regardless of what they supported
• (Re-)Added Robert Hale Merriman as a general for the CSA
• Reduced cost of Hawaii’s focuses to 42 days, down from 70
• The USA no longer hates Canada for taking New England and Alaska if they return them
• Cuba can now restore the commission of old generals, meaning all factions now have generals
• ACW states now have ACW templates removed when released
• The CSA will no longer embargo Australasia if Australasia went syndicalist prior to the 2AW
• The USA can no longer use its national guard mobilization for wars other than the 2ACW
• Montreal and Ottawa are now their own states, removed Queen Charlotte islands and Trans-Pecos
• SocDem Costa Rica should now sometimes agree to join socialist Centroamerica
• Added Fox Conner as a general for the USA and AUS
• The CSA now no longer automatically receives cores on former territories like Puerto Rico
• USA immediate post-war events now auto-complete focuses rather than bypassing
• Frank Merriam can now lead the PSA democratic party in 1940

South America

• Brazil’s anti-syndicalist provincial revolt Bahia is now AuthDem instead of PatAut.
• Paraguay focus times are now 56 days instead of 70 days.
• Leader descriptions for all Brazilian leaders.
• Syndicalist Chile’s foreign policy converted from focuses to decisions.
• Brazil’s focus tree is now dynamic.
• Venezuela can now join the Entente if at war with an Internationale member.
• Venezuela will now attack the West Indies for Essequibo, and can offer the West Indies peace when they hold it for long enough
• Neves now leads SocCon Vera Cruz
• Memede now leads PatAut Bahia
• Siseno Ramos Sarmento added as the new natpop leader of Amazonas
• Peru’s focuses are now all locked to ideology
• Removed ideology drift from national spirits in Peru.
• Peru and Ecuador can now do a white peace if Ecuador is doing well in the Pastaza war. Peru will lose their core on Pastaza when this happens, and when they are outright annexed by Ecuador.
• Brazil should now receive events about American refugees earlier in the war
• Bolivian companies are now available to the PBC
• Syndie Peru should now leave the Buenos Aires-Lima Pact
• Touched up state ambitions and potential claims in South America, should lead to more consistent peace conferences
• Buffed Mexican population gain ideas

Asia

• The Co-Prosperity Sphere is now a starting faction.
• WIP icons in the BHC and DEH foci trees have been swapped with ones from base game.
• Fixed a mistake in which Ragnar Colvin was using a portrait photo of John Gregory Crace.
• Princely Federation now goes isolationist far less
• Added a warning about claiming the title as Caliph for the Saudis and Rashidis
• Added new flavor events to Siam
• Fixed Araki Sakao dying randomly
• Middle Eastern populations fully adjusted to new states
• Redid Japan’s foreign policy tree
• Increase the speed at which Indian nations gain cores on the other conquered factions
• Optimised Turkestan events, deleted many more
• Japan now has a unique leader when puppeted by any socialist power
• Syndicalist Japan will now be able to deal with the Imperial House (AI-only paths)
• Siam can no longer go down its political trees when puppeted
• Redid Transamur’s foreign policy and industry sections of their tree
• Indian states should now have priority in peace conferences for Burma
• Player-led Australasia can now demand territories from the Anderson doctrine at threat of war

Africa

• Fixed several event chains involving artists in National France.
• Libya’s population has been properly adjusted to account for the absence of the Cyrenaican genocide
• The UK can no longer change the Head of State of British-Aligned South Africa

Other

• Replaced the Generic European 1 portrait that was using Frank T. Johns likeness.
• Mechanized companies no also affect amphibious mechanized vehicles
• Tank companies now also affect td/aa/spg variants
• Countries which can join the ISAC by other means no longer are invited to join automatically
• Removed AOG, Normandy, Schleswig-Holstein, and Yugoslavia tags
• If a country occupies territory owned by a country they are allied with, they should now automatically turn it over
• Moderate resource rebalancing in parts of western Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia
• Continued rebalancing starting slots for states, notably the USA
• Adjusted many monthly population ideas
• Added voice overs to several tags
• Removed starting cores for more nations which aren't around in 1936 - saves on performance
• Converted colonial government ideas to a special government type
• The corrupt kleptocrat minister trait is now less corrupt
• Replaced loading screen quote from probable fictional person.
• Replaced repetitive loading screen quote sources with new quotes from: John McLean, H.G. Wells, Dalton Trumbo, Westbrook Pegler, Earl Browder
• Nerfed volunteer size ideas across the mod

Incomplete Content

• Hunan’s focus tree wasn’t finished. Hunan has been given a temporary tree and a few decisions for the time being. It will be in a following patch.

Fixes
Western Europe

• Fixed the UK General Elections firing before they were supposed to.
• Fixed the Commune of France being able to use sabotage or development decisions on countries that don’t exist.
• Fixed Germany’s Bring Back Order focus sometimes not giving the proper effect.
• Ireland’s and Canada’s events have been adjusted to be less performance-heavy.
• Belgium can no longer hire Totalist, Syndicalist or Radical Socialist ministers after the interim government ends, unless it’s governed by one of the aforementioned ideologies.
• Totalist Wallonia now has the correct ministers upon breaking from Flanders-Wallonia.
• You now have to wait for the economic crisis to hit in order to take ‘Combat the Economic Crisis’ as Switzerland.
• The VNH doesn’t introduce a private welfare initiative after taking power anymore in the Netherlands.
• Fixed purged Finnish German generals still being selectable as head of staff, the army, navy and air force.
• Shortened the news event for the Dutch revolution slightly so it doesn’t clip under the option button.
• Fixed a missing localisation tag on the Danish-German opinion modifier when a trade deal is rejected.
• The correct Otto Wels death event will now fire if the SPD is not ruling Germany
• Fixed the UoB occasionally not getting totalist George Orwell when he is chosen
• Fixed UoB companies having values different from much of the rest of the game
• Fixed the UK general election beginning before the focus is taken
• Fixed Flanders going down the council rule tree when not ruled by the council
• World tension is no longer generated by the savoyard crisis if it never escalates
• Fixed up an old CoF chain to help the CSA
• Mussolini no longer rises from the dead in the fifth SRI congress
• Fixed the UK’s annexation event for Ireland if it had previously chosen to occupy via its own chain
• Switzerland can now properly join the Donau-Adriabund
• Fixed a few events for Switzerland not firing at all
• The Second Peace with Honour now properly peaces the UoB out with everyone under all circumstances
• Fixed a reversed opinion modifier for CoF demanding Romandy
• Added sanity checks for Switzerland addressing black monday
• Harold Alexander removed as a possible general from the UoB (he’s in Canada)
• Irish ACW decisions can no longer be taken once the ACW is over
• The second TUC no longer breaks due to the Lawrence coup
• Rewrote Britain’s Irish event chain
• Fixed effects of the Treaty of Arel failing
• Countries other than France no no longer automatically get cores Alsace-Lorraine when it is conquered
• Fixed an edge case where Switzerland could not recover from Black Monday
• Fixed the German Women’s Suffrage chain going nowhere
• Fixed an event for the death of ex-Chairman Mann for UoB never firing
• Fixed Ireland not being able to approach the PSA after they unite America

Eastern Europe

• Lithuanian political focuses are now restricted to their specific ideologies.
• Fixed Russia not being able to declare war on Poland via focus if Poland annexed Lithuania.
• Tweaked Lithuania’s ‘Revolt’ and ‘Loyalty’ paths to accomodate for a German victory and the return to puppet status if they revolt.
• Russian event chain about purchasing White Ruthenian state bonds now only applies if White Ruthenia is either independent and not socialist or is a puppet of Germany. In all other cases they’ll immediately declare war instead.
• Removed the option to only annex half of White Ruthenia for Russia
• President Dmitriy will no longer be immortal if the Second Russian Civil War is ongoing.
• The Intermarium will be disbanded if Ukraine chooses to become isolationist.
• Fixed Polish ministers not being removed on death.
• Reordered the PLC tree a bit and prevented it from frequently being locked out of its foreign policy tree
• Dvinsk is now properly given to the baltic states in annexations when owned
• Ukraine should no longer send all of its units to Germany when the RP is at war
• Rozwadowski is no longer immortal
• Hopefully fixed Russia being inundated with strikes forever
• Fixed the partition of Ukraine between Poland and DKB firing if DKB does not exist

Southern Europe

• National Populist Italy will no longer receive events meant for Democratic Italy.
• Albania will now leave Austria’s faction should Wilhelm zu Wied be assassinated.
• Fixed several bugs with the Ausgleich event chain.
• Missions dealing with the collapse of the Portuguese Empire will now be cancelled if Portugal is not at war.
• Portugal can now no longer always immediately begin its political tree
• The Iron Guard leadership will no longer flee to Serbia if Serbia has sided against them in the Romanian Civil War.
• Spain can now bypass certain focuses depending on its level of social breakdown
• Carlist Spain now always receives the cores it should
• Sabotage event no longer fires for Spain at the start of the game
• Romania now loses Belgrade Pact opinion modifiers when it leaves the Pact
• Italy can no longer join Austria’s faction when at war
• Fixed Stamboliyski being killed off if Bulgaria is annexed by Serbia
• Fixed Greek monarchy cosmetic tags being sometimes misapplied
• Tuscany and Italy can no longer both be ruled by the same person
• Austria can no longer restore a dead Wilhelm zu Wied in Albania
• The annexations of Bulgaria are now much less likely to leave odd leftover territory
• Socialist Bulgaria can no longer join the Donau-Adriabund
• Fixed Greece being locked out of focuses after losing the Balkan War

Northern Europe

• Iceland now leaves the Reichspakt when they declare independence in the referendum.
• Iceland also now leaves its old faction when joining a new one during the ‘Cod War’
• Iceland can no longer do its resistance decisions once it has broken free
• King’s Cabinet Denmark will no longer have its government overridden by Kanslergade Agreement events.
• The Netherlands will no longer have a second revolution after being reconquered by the Dutch East Indies.
• Fixed puppeted Finland being a kingdom without a king in some cases
• Changed the name of puppeted Paternal Autocrat Denmark to lose references to kingdom
• Disabled the choice of government for right wing puppet Sweden
• Fixed a Norwegian focus relating to Denmark bypassing when Sweden becomes socialist
• Fixed an improper event tooltip in Norway
• Fixed the UoB getting a request from Norway meant for the CoF
• Fixed Dimitriy returning from the dead in Russia
• August Uproar in Denmark now fires in August
• Oscar Nygren can no longer return from the dead

North America

• Canada will no longer receive repeat West Indies annexation missions if it chooses to assume direct control of the Federation.
• Any trade modifiers regarding war debt repayments will now be removed if the US joins the Entente, allowing for free trade between them.
• The American Union State can now complete its naval tree if it chooses Trade Interdiction as its doctrine.
• Fixed broken naval focus mutual exclusivity for socialist Centroamerica
• Fixed Centroamerica’s native rights event giving the wrong tooltip
• The ISAC and IEDC are now disbanded when Canada surrenders
• Hawaii now changes ministers when it changes government
• Hawaii now peaces out when ts faction leader falls
• The ACW ceasefire no longer triggers when the PSA is about to win
• Fixed a Dominican Chain firing for Costa Rica
• Fixed instances where not selecting anything with the 1936 presidential election could cause Olson to live indefinitely
• Fixed socialist Centroamerica keeping a non-socialist cosmetic tag when puppeted
• The American Union State no longer puts its own generals on trial
• Nimitz is no longer in two ACW factions at once
• Proper ministers are now added for cuba’s revolutionary democracy path
• Fixed an edge case where Panama could declare war for Coto Brus without warning
• Fixed Canada sometimes being locked out of intervening in the US post-ACW when it should be able to
• Effects and event options for the West Indies Federation are no longer often reversed
• Fixed the Cuban CNOC leadership event
• Fixed the Cuban democratic and US-lapdog constitutional convention chain
• Fixed the Dominican Dictatorship power struggle
• Fixed status of Belize event for CA
• Fixed Panama post-1940 focuses not being properly bypassed

South America

• Ramirez’s Argentina can now access its political tree if he comes to power after the FOP refuses reunification.
• Removed possible exploit allowing Democratic Argentina to join a faction before dealing with the FOP.
• Fixed a broken company gfx for argentina
• Fixed marriage event for Portugal and Brazil firing when the bride is dead
• Fixed Brazilian resource focuses bypassing due to revolts
• Fixed a weird frontline issue around the great lakes
• Fixed issues with Brazil-WIF peace conferences

Asia

• Transamur will now drop out of any of Japan’s wars if they rebel.
• Japan will no longer return Okhotsk and Kamchatka to Transamur immediately after receiving the territory.
• Russia-Japan peace events will now transfer the conquered territory to Transamur if it is a puppet of Japan.
• Added missing Hejaz annexation event.
• Siamese events will no longer refer to German engineers if Siam is socialist.
• Indochina will now correctly guarantee Siam instead of Burma should they accept to cooperate.
• The Golestan Pact will now be dissolved if Persia chooses to ally with the Bharatiya Commune.
• The arrival of Dutch exiles as the Dutch government in exile will now give a research buff again instead of a research debuff.
• The effect of the ‘An army of all Dutch East Indians’ focus now properly reflects the effect that is put in place in-game.
• Fixed a double removal of the national revolutionary idea in Insulindia.
• Yemen is no longer referenced in an event about Russia in Saudi Arabia.
• Fixed Siam’s annexation event for Burma.
• Fixed mixed up leader descriptions in Kurdistan and Iraq.
• Touched up old Philippines events, including fixing the many broken or reversed opinion modifiers in the Philippines.
• Massively improved the major East Asian peace chain.
• Transamur can no longer elect the military when a full Japanese puppet.
• Fixed Japan not transferring Siberia to Transamur in peace conferences.
• Nations can now actually get Korea when they defeat Japan.
• Fixed Changtang not being taken from Tibet in peace events.
• The Soviet Union can no longer core Korea.
• Japan’s faction and tech sharing group now exist at game start.
• Transamur can now break free from Japan in their tree.
• Transamur will be given the correct states in their peace deals.
• Added sanity checks to Insulindia’s faction joining focuses and events.
• Nepal can no longer become a republic with the king in power.

Africa

• National France now gets a claim on Rio de Oro if they attempt to seize it, guaranteeing they get the province on the peace conference should war break out with the CNT-FAI.
• Fixed an event chain for National France in relations to the imprisonment of Lévi Strauss.
• Egypt and Sudan will no longer receive Mahdist war events as a puppet.
• Socialist puppet South Africa will no longer have elections in 1943 or 1948 reverting ideology to Social Conservative.
• Angola no longer takes control of a state in Spain when released.
• Abyssinia/Ethiopia is now always called Ethiopia.
• Fixed African state cores from Germany’s decolonization event.
• Transamur can no longer take its coring decisions multiple times.
• Germany no longer cedes the Suez Canal automatically when they decide to resist Egyptian demands.

Other

• Most broken decision and portrait gfx have been fixed
• Added tooltips to remaining raw oobs without them
• Fixed the party popularity bar overlapping with the aircraft mission screen
• General fixes to typos, VP and state names, etc., as always
• Fixed a government in exile decision remaining after the country was restored
• Fixed several instances of dates scripted on yyyy/dd/mm format instead of yyyy/mm/dd
• Fixed up many literature events
• Fixed several naval commanders having no stats
• Fixed the Swiss Neutrality tooltip from sometimes showing up when declaring war as any country

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So I just started a game of Argentina and damn it was fun. Made a few mistakes here and there, should have annexed Chile before taking Patagonia but hey, schematics.
What caught my eye, was that Manuel Carles has the option of keeping the market free. Avoiding the mistakes of Peron, I've chosen to take a less totalitarian approach on the economy. Everything, except public transport, so far remains privatised. So the real question is, how will it affect Argentina's economy in the future? Would it slump badly like OTL Argentina or would it fair better? Better yet, how in the world would that even work? Extreme nationalism, a heavily centralised government and a free market sounds so bizarre.

Hello and welcome to Week One of voting for CBRX Season 2! Every week at this exact time I will post a thread with the links to all of the polls for the upcoming week, and will also post the results from the previous week. This week we have the Western Australia regional poll, and all of the leader polls. These polls will close at 23:59 GMT on March 28th, and then 12 hours later the results will be released and the next set of polls will open.

How to Vote

YOU MUST ENTER THE NAME YOU REGISTERED WITH ON THE POLL OR YOUR VOTE WILL NOT COUNT. PLEASE REMEMBER TO DO THIS.
In order to vote, each poll has a question at the top that says "Please give your email address or other recognizable identifier:" where we expect you to put the reddit username you registered with (or if you have made special accommodations please put that name). We do not expect you to put your email. You can still register to vote if you have not already! There is a link below under the "Resources for Voting" header.
In addition, reply "Voted" to the comment I stickied below so that we can guarantee it's actually you who voted. I don't anticipate any serious cheating on these polls, but please know that we have measures in place to eliminate your vote if not properly registered/indicating you voted.

Special Notes

Special Western Australia note: This vote is between the Kimberley from Mk2 and the Anangu. If Anangu win this election then the Kimberley will be eligible for voting in the Southern Indonesia region. If Kimberley win this election, then they will not be eligible in Southern Indonesia, nor will Anangu be eligible in any other region. Therefore if you really want the Kimberley again you should consider waiting, and vote for them in the Southern Indonesia election instead. Or not, your choice.
A note on how leaders were combined into polls: Modern and historical states are not lumped together. For example, Nasser, Cleopatra, and Akhenaten are all considered to have led different civilizations, although they are all called Egypt, and therefore they are not included in the Egypt leader vote but they will be in the region vote.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to reach out to me or any member of the dev team, we will happily answer your questions! Also if you notice that any of the links below point to the wrong poll, or something is wrong with the polls please let me know ASAP, as you can imagine there are possibilities for errors when making over 100 of them.

Resources for Voting

• If you still need to register to vote, do so here
• Master sheet of civilizations and leaders
• Map of the voting regions
• Megathread with extensive details about voting
• Coiot's TSL Map - Forthcoming

Finally, we know that this is a lot of polls. If your time and/or interest is limited, feel free to vote in only the ones you care about.

Region Voting

Western Australia

Leader Voting

Region 1 - North Atlantic

• Scotland
• Iceland

Region 2 - England, Wales, and Ireland

• Ireland
• Cornwall
• United Kingdom
• Wales

Region 3 - Scandinavia

• Denmark
• Norway
• Sweden

Region 4 - Iberia

• Leon
• Portugal
• Spain
• Visigoths

Region 5 - France

• Belgium
• Brittany
• Flanders
• France
• Franks
• Gauls
• Switzerland

Region 6 - Germany

• Holy Roman Empire
• Bohemia
• Czechoslovakia
• Germany
• Liechtenstein
• Saxony

Region 7 - Italy

• Florence/Tuscany
• Genoa
• Italy
• Lombardy
• Papal States
• Rome

Region 8 - Southeast Europe

• Athens
• Austria
• Bosnia
• Bulgaria
• Modern Bulgaria
• Hungary
• Romania
• Serbia
• Sparta
• Thebes
• Wallachia
• Yugoslavia

Region 9 - Poland and the Baltics

• Lithuania
• Poland

Region 10 - Gulf of Finland

• Finland
• Russia

Region 11 - Russia and Ukraine

• Kievan Rus
• USSR

Region 12 - Ural

• No leader votes in this region

Region 13 - Anatolia and the Holy Land

• Byzantium
• Hittites
• Israel
• Jerusalem
• Lydia
• Ottomans
• Phoenicia
• Umayyads

Region 14 - Caucasus

• Armenia
• Georgia

Region 15 - Nile Valley

• Ayyubids
• Egypt
• Ptolemies

Region 16 - East Maghreb

• Carthage
• Fatimids

Region 17 - West Maghreb

• No leader votes in this region

Region 18 - West Africa

• Ashanti
• Mali

Region 19 - Nigeria

• Kanem-Bornu
• Nok
• Nri

Region 20 - Congo Basin

• DRC/Zaire

Region 21 - Horn of Africa

• Ethiopia
• Somalia

Region 22 - The Great Rift Valley

• No leader votes in this region

Region 23 - Southwest Africa

• No leader votes in this region

Region 24 - Southeast Africa

• No leader votes in this region

Region 25 - Mesopotamia and Iran

• Akkad
• Assyria
• Babylon
• Iran
• Kurdistan
• Persia/Achaemenids
• Seleucids
• Sumer

Region 26 - Arabian Peninsula

• Abbasids/Arabia
• Nabatea

Region 27 - Central Asia

• Afghanistan/Durrani
• Timurids

Region 28 - Western India

• India
• Mughals
• Punjab/Sikhs

Region 29 - Eastern India and Tibet

• Bhutan
• Maurya
• Tibet

Region 30 - Southern India

• No leader votes in this region

Region 31 - Central Siberia

• No leader votes in this region

Region 32 - Mongolia

• Mongolia

Region 33 - Eastern Siberia

• Chukchi

Region 34 - Korea and Manchuria

• Korea
• North Korea
• South Korea

Region 35 - Japan

• Pre-Unification Japan
• Post-Unification Japan

Region 36 - Northern China

• People's Republic of China
• Yuan

Region 37 - Eastern China

• Ryukyu

Region 38 - Southern China

• Vietnam

Region 39 - Southeast Asia

• Burma
• Khmer

Region 40 - Northern Indonesia

• No leader votes in this region

Region 41 - Southern Indonesia

• Indonesia

Region 42 - Western Australia

• No leader votes in this region

Region 43 - Eastern Australia

• Australia

Region 44 - The North Pacific

• Polynesia/Hawai'i
• Philippines

Region 45 - The South Pacific

• No leader votes in this region

Region 46 - Alaska and Canadian Arctic

• Aleut

Region 47 - Pacific Northwest

• Shoshone

Region 48 - Southwest Desert

• Deseret
• Navajo

Region 49 - Northern Plains

• Niitsitapi/Blackfoot
• Sioux

Region 50 - Central Plains

• No leader votes in this region

Region 51 - Southern US

• Acadians/Cajuns

Region 52 - Eastern US

• America
• Cherokee
• Powhatan

Region 53 - Eastern Canada

• Canada
• Vermont

Region 54 - Central America

• Mexico
• Olmecs

Region 55 - The Caribbean

• Cuba
• Carib/Kalinago

Region 56 - Colombia

• Omagua
• Panama

Region 57 - Amazonian Coast

• Marajoara

Region 58 - Brazil

• Brazil

Region 59 - The Andes

• Chimor

Region 60 - Gran Chaco

• Argentina
• Paraguay

Region 61 - Patagonia

• Chile
• Mapuche
• Tehuelche

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