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No More Princes! (And Other New Government Types) (1.9)

So you wanna play as the Zulu Kingdom, intending to drive out those pesky Europeans from your homeland. At the 1836 start date, you would play as Dingane, King of the Zulu Kingdom and murderer of his half-brother, the great Shaka Zulu. Maybe this time you can turn the fortunes of the Zulu people, and make Dingane atone for his misdeeds.

So you boot up the game, and click on the Zulu Kingd...

Wait, did it say the country is an Absolute Principality? Whose leader is a princ..

Oh dear...


Paradooxxxx


This mod adds a bunch of new, cosmetic Government Types that includes making every principality-tier monarchs outside of Europe to use the title of king, as many of the 'princes' in the game were historically called kings, but due to their Country Tier they are not called as such.


♪...and have your own world ♪


Initially this mod began as only fixing these monarchs' titles, but eventually I realized that other countries that historically had emperors, such as Mexico, Haiti, and Gaza, are not called as such in-game due to their countries being the wrong Country Tier. One thing led to another, and now this mod also features several new Government Types for the sake of historical flavor around the map.


Always aim for the job you want

So Mexico and Haiti's monarchs now rightfully call themselves emperors. The princes of Ethiopia are now called Ras, with the poor ruler of Begemder calling himself emperor. Or when the Qing collapses, the Son of Heaven will no longer demote himself to king.

Some of these Government Types even have their own little flavor text.


Go on. Bow.


The short answer is no and yes.

This mod is (in most cases) only cosmetic and the Country Tiers remain unaffected. I've also mapped the Government Types' succession to what you would expect from your laws (since Government Types can change the Transfer of Power, like how theocratic Montenegro's succession is hereditary). This mod is intended to only be a cosmetic flavor mod.


There are some exceptions to this, as it does not make sense for some Government Types to only be reskins of vanilla government types. The following are the few exceptions where the laws you have may not follow its typical Transfer of Power type:

- Lordship of Ireland: Monarchy but Dictatorial inheritance, like the Baltic Governorates in vanilla

- Imaama: Theocracy with any elective law that isn't Universal Suffrage, Anarchy, or Single-Party State will always force a Parliamentary Transfer of Power type. By default a game rule will always force Futa Toro and Futa Jallon to change their laws to switch to this gov. type on game start, but this can be disabled.

- Wadai, Fur, and Kanuri monarchies: Monarchy or theocracy governance principles laws will always force a Hereditary Transfer of Power Type



This mod does not touch or overwrite any vanilla files and code, so it should be safe with most mods. However, I can't guarantee full compatibility with mods that add their own government types (Victorian Flavor Mod should be fine, but other Total Conversions are more riskier to use together with this mod), or mods that have triggers that depend on Government Types (since the principality-tier kings are actually a new Government Type).

Only English is supported in the base mod.

Chinese translation (中文翻译) is available through this mod: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2880069248


You can find the list here.


Did you know you can check the triggers of your Government Type in the game?


Pretty neat huh.


Feel free to recommend new Government Types that you would like to see in the mod, and maybe some background on why you think it should be included. I'll add new ones based on suggestions on a case-by-case basis.



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