Guide to Making Your Own Country

Original text by pimparel. Discussion at Paradox forums

This guide will try to walkthrough anyone to make his own country, as example we will create the Dumber Federation

Replace the following line at ...\Victoria\config\worldnames.csv

Uxx;User Defined;;;;;;;;Benutzerdefiniert;;x

with:

Uxx;Dumber Federation;;;;;;;;Benutzerdefiniert;;X

Where:

xx

can be a number between 00-19;

Dumber Federation

is the name of your country

Add the following line to the line before the last one at ...\Victoria\db\country.csv

Uxx;DarkRed;SPA;MIN;Light_Blue;White;9;25;X

Where:

DarkRed

will be the political color of my country ingame;

SPA

is the refering language to the unitnames of the Dumber Federation (no prejudice here);

Light_Blue;White

are the colors of the Army uniform, refering to coats and trousers;

9

is a reference to the file ...Victoria\gfx\Interface\cities.bmp, which will display the 9th figure as capital;

25

is a reference to the file ...\Victoria\gfx\Interface\frontend\leaders.bmp, which will display the 25th leader;

Add the following string to the end of the file in ...\Victoria\db\revolt.txt

This is only necessary IF, you want to your country as a revolters, as example in VIP Spain wouldn't create a Carlist Spain country in the diplomatic screen, or example also in VIP, Brazil wouldn't create Piratini Republic. So in both case the addition to the revolt.txt is unecessary.

Uxx = { #DBF date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1885 } expirydate = { day = 31 month = december year = 1920 } minimum = { 2038 2039 2040 2340 2341 2342 } extra = { } capital = 2039 culture = { type = philippine } religion = catholic literacy = -1 ai = "default.ai" slaves = no vassal = yes #If you can release them as satellite revolt = yes #If the country can be created by a revolter/partisan primitive = no }

Where:

date

is a date specified to when your country can start to exist, as example if it is set to 1900, this country won't be formed prior this date;

expirydate

is a date specified to when your country won't be able to forme anymore, as example if it is set to 1900 this country won't be formed after this date;

minimum

is the core provinces of your new country;

extra

is the claim provinces of your new country;

capital

no need to explain;

culture

religion are the state culture and the official religion;

literacy

if set to -1, will be inherited by the former holder, or from 0-1, where 1 = 100%;

ai

is the name of the ai file, which should be loaded at the creation of the country;

slaves

if set to yes, the country will be able to maintain POP's as slaves;

vassal

if set to no, the holder country won't be able to release it as a satellite;

revolt

not sure here, but I do think that if set to yes this country will only be allowed to exist if the provinces were taken by The Rebel Scum (yoh, matey!);

primitive

if set to yes, this country will be regarded as uncivilized

Add the file leaders.uxx to ...\Victoria\db\leaders\

Where, once again xx is a number between 0-19. (Dumber's Note: It MUST be the same one that you should be using!!!). This file is not necessary;

Add the file to Uxx_party.csv to ...\Victoria\db\parties\

This file MUST exist, following is an example of such file:

country;id;name;start;end;ideology;Economic;Trade;Religious;Minority;War;Culture;Religion;Status Uxx;284000;Liberal Party;1885;1920;liberal;laissez_faire;free_trade;pluralism;residence;anti_military;all;all;x Uxx;284001;Conservative Party;1885;1920;conservative;interventionism;protectionism;pluralism;residence;pro_military;all;all;x

Where:

country

your chosen TAG

id

this number must be inside of the range of the chosen TAG

name

name of the party

start

start date

end

end date

ideology

the strings are [anarcho_liberal,liberal,reactionary,conservative,communist,socialist]

Economic

the strings are [laissez_faire,interventionism,state_capitalism,planned_economy]

Trade

the strings are [free_trade,protectionism]

Religious

the strings are [moralism,pluralism,secularized,atheism]

Minority

the strings are [slavery,residence,limited_citizenship,full_citizenship]

War

the strings are [jingoism,pro_military,anti_military,pacifism]

Culture

the strings are [culture,all]

Religion

the strings are [religion,all]

Status

the strings are [third_party,all]

Add the flag to ...Victoria\gfx\map\flags

the file Uxx.bmp, where xx is your TAG number

Add the shield to ...\Victoria\gfx\map\shields

More specifically, the file Uxx.bmp, where xx is your TAG number

Add the events to the file Uxx.txt at ...Victoria\db\events

Also don't forget to add this file in the ...Victoria\db\events\events.txt, so it can be read in your scenario.

Add the following code to the file Uxx.inc at ...\Victoria\scenarios\Scenario Folder

country = { tag = [id] #your chosen TAG capital = [number] #explained in revolt.txt ai = "default.ai" #explained in revolt.txt culture = { type = [culture] } #explained in revolt.txt religion = [religion] #explained in revolt.txt literacy = [number] #explained in revolt.txt slaves = [yes/no] #explained in revolt.txt voting_rights = [none/landed/wealth/suffrage] press_rights = [state_press/censorship/free_press] political_parties = [none_allowed/right_to_ban/all_allowed] trade_unions = [none/non_socialist/socialist/all] public_meetings = [yes/no] maximum_workhours = [8/10/12/14/24] minimum_wages = [none/trinkets/low/acceptable/good] safety_regulations = [none/trinkets/low/acceptable/good] health_care = [none/trinkets/low/acceptable/good] unemployment_subsidies = [none/trinkets/low/acceptable/good] pension_funds = [none/trinkets/low/acceptable/good] ruling_party = [number] #id of the ruling party government = [democracy/constitutional_monarchy/monarchy/presidential_dictatorship/proletarian_dictatorship] executive_designation = [parliamentarism/hms_government/laws_by_decree] establishment = [naval_industrial/army_industrial/banker_science/industrialist_science/traditional_academic/radical_academic] party_system = [multi_party/two_party/one_party] national_value = [liberty/equality/order] cash = [$$$$$] #Make sure that these provinces don't overlap with any other country, as example here Spain ownedprovinces = { 2038 2039 2040 2340 2341 2342 } #If at war, you can set more province or less provinces, depending of the front: controlledprovinces = { 2038 2039 2040 2340 2341 2342 } #Claims are added here: nationalprovinces = { 2038 2039 2040 2340 2341 2342 } diplomacy = { relation = { tag = [tag] value = [value] } # Starting Diplomatic Values } ############ #TECHNOLOGY# ############ # Here I used the Techs and Resources of a indenpendent country: techapps = { 1001 1101 1201 1401 2001 2401 3001 3101 3401 4001 4101 4301 5001 5101 } #Backward Western Knowledge inventions = { } resources = { ########### #Raw Mtrl # ########### cement = 100 lumber = 100 steel = 50 coal = 10 ################ #Consumer Goods# ################ wine = 100 canned_food = 100 luxury_clothes = 20 ################# #Strategic Mtrl # ################# small_arms = 80 explosives = 50 liquor = 45 artillery = 50 } ### Philippines OOB 1836 by Pimparel ### leadership = 40 landunit = { location = 2039 id = { type = 11340 id = 2006 } name = "I Philippine Army" division = { name = "1st Infantry Division" type = infantry id = { type = 11340 id = 2007} quality = regular location = 2039 culture = philippine strength = 100 } } ### Philippine Navy OOB 1836 by Pimparel ### navalunit = { name = "Philippine Navy" id = {type = 14115 id = 2000 } location = 2039 division = { name = "Big Boat" id = { type = 14115 id = 2001 } type = manowar quality = regular culture = philippine location = 2039 strength = 100 } } }