apparently it's a religion, it's all over this EU4 game I converted from CK2.
It's a form of Buddhism, distinct from Mahayana Buddhism, the other big branch of Buddhism.
Theravada is older, and is generally more focused on supporting the monastic life than Mahayana Buddhism, which is more focused on lay people engaging in Buddhism.
It is mostly found in Southeast Asia in places like Thailand and Cambodia.
In my game, it is in western India. I'm not sure if that's something that happened before or after I converted to CK2. I don't pay much attention to India unless I'm playing there.
Jews are presumably somewhere around in this timeline but they're not a majority anywhere so they don't show up on the map.
Randomly, here are some of my advisor candidates:
thing that bothers me: even though by the end of CK2 almost every character in my kingdom was either tan or dark skinned, all of these are white dudes.
cept that Ali dude. you were lookin pretty cosmopolitan for a second.
even he looks European despite being presumably Berber.
This is more a problem with the game itself than my specific situation. You actually have to buy advisor portraits that aren't European separately, because Paradox's target audience is rich Europeans who don't care that that's racist and will buy it anyway.
Is China in that game? Is the religion Daoism or something?
China (Ming at game start though there's bunches of other nations it can break up into, "China" is considered a region rather than a specific country) is in the game yes. The whole world is in EU4 except for Antarctica. I forget what Ming's state religion is at game start though. I wanna say Confuscianism, which the game treats as a religion.
I plan to eventually colonize the Americas actually.
There are also some mentions in ancient Roman sources of such names of nearby towns as Tuniza (currently El Kala), Thunusuda (currently Sidi Meskine), Thinissut (currently Bir Bouregba), and Thunisa (currently Ras Jebel).
Ming has a unique government form called the Celestial Empire, reflecting the Chinese belief that a well-governed empire was evidence of divine sanction and blessing, whereas a poorly governed or tyrannical one was evidence that the Emperor could be deposed. The Celestial Empire government effect is Technology.png technology cost -10%, a minimum province autonomy of 50%, a negative force limit modifier of -33%, and a Chinese Bureaucracy system. Chinese Bureaucracy comes with the Mandate of Heaven triggered modifier and a faction system. It is also the cultural union for the Chinese culture group.
Province Autonomy
The Celestial Empire also imposes a minimum 50% local autonomy on all its provinces, further reducing the effectiveness of taxes, manpower, force limit and trading power available to Ming. It is common for only a fraction of a province's tax and manpower to become available for Ming.
Changing Government
There is a way for Ming to reform and remove these crushing inefficiencies, that is to seek contact with Europeans, and westernize the country. Upon finishing westernization, not only does Ming get the western tech group, but it also loses the Celestial Empire government and Chinese Bureaucracy.
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I think I know of all of those except Zikri, which is apparently a Mahdiist sect. I'm so cool.
Well that does make sense for Tibet.
Lucas had better had not have done that intentionally.
Also confirms the state religion is Confucianism.