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Policies are a set of bonuses unlocked by completing idea groups. Each possible pair of ideas from different types (i.e. administrative and diplomatic, administrative and military, or diplomatic and military) unlocks a policy. Since there are 6 administrative, 6 diplomatic, and 10 military idea groups, there are 6 * 6 + 6 * 10 + 6 * 10 -1 = 155 different policies. Since nations may have up to 8 idea groups, they can have up to 21 possible policies available.
Policies are visible when the requisite idea groups are chosen, but cannot be activated until both idea groups have been completed.
Once activated, a policy cannot be deactivated for ten years.
A nation may only have up to 3 policies active in each monarch point type i.e. 3 military, 3 administrative and 3 diplomatic. This limit can be modified by the following modifiers.
Our nation has formalized its system of weights, scales and measures. Four to eight bovates to the hide, and five hides to the fee makes a wapentake at a hundred. We're not quite sure. While this is no metric system, it does go a long way to help that we are at least decided on using the same basic units everywhere in the country.
This innovative style synthesizes aspects of Late Gothic architecture with influences of the Spanish, Italian and Flemish elements. The constructions in Manueline were largely financed by proceeds of the lucrative spice trade with Africa and India.
Checking on suspicious behavior within the administration might be a good idea from time to time. The creation of royal commissions will certainly help to reduce corruption.
Through our clergy we promote the idea of our nation as the one favored in war and that we should never lose faith in our right in this earth. To fight to the very last breath is the very spirit of our people.
The poor have to suffer most in times of trouble. Some small donations shall help to ease their misery - and make sure that the mob won't pick up the torches and pitchforks.
Let us look much more closely to our holy scriptures to distinguish crimes and penalties for our society. When a society is ruled in a truly pious way it will make it easier for the devout to spot traitors and deviants.
With promises and assurances of safety and toleration, we can convince the unbelievers within our realm to remain peaceful and disarmed. This should at least temporarily delay the threat of a religious civil war until we're better equipped to deal with their wickedness and return them to the true faith.
By opening our court to persons of all nationalities we can ensure that we get the best advice for the least cost to ourselves, as well as creating valuable diplomatic links abroad.
Incorporating foreign lands into our country is a difficult and time-consuming affair. By setting down a series of standard practices for integration we can make it easier.
Ruling distant lands is difficult, particularly when those lands are an ocean away. By establishing dominions ruled by local viceroys loyal to the crown we can get the most out of those lands.
Encourage education and high literary standards among the aristocracy in order to ensure that the men leading our nation are the closest followers of our Humanist ideals.
Our nation has a considerable understanding of the customs and traditions of foreign cultures, allowing us to seamlessly blend into their society when necessary.
Craftsmanship gives many opportunities to celebrate the spiritual, giving our religious leaders reason to support such work. We aid the manifestation of the divine in the creation of the mundane.
Making sure that our economy stays healthy is the best way to ensure a well maintenance of our hordes. With a good providing of the equipment and weapons they need, we shall conquer the ground itself.
Our close attention to the well-being of our people has paid off delightfully: Our reputation for caring has spread all over the nation and even the most distant shepherd feels grateful for living in our lands.
Our religious strength has helped the people of our prideful nation to feel integrated in a single union. This faith will help us subjugate them by securing their happiness.
Each year, a part of our taxes will be invested in taking good care of our pious government. Thanks to the generosity of our people, our nation will finally achieve the prosperity that it is destined to hold.
The kingdom of god lies inside all of us because we ate it. We shared the same food, we drank its rivers, our sinful mouths are still guilty of swallowing them. We shall share this feast with all our new subjects.
A tolerant administration is the key to success. Our nation must be built on acceptance, respect and trust. A merry population is easier to control than an angry one.
The flesh must be as equally cultivated as the soul. Our monks shall not dedicate their retired lives to devoted prayers, but must exercise their bodies as well. The supply production of our monasteries shall thicken the goods of our nation.
The growth of our nation shall not rely just in enlarging its extension, but also in the maintenance of our own provinces. Providing them with new buildings will attract new settlers and increase the universal importance of our cities. Soon everyone will know their names.
Our technological progress has been unparalleled by any other neighboring nation. The improvements in our scientific development are now big enough to guarantee a better use of our great minds and the spreading of their knowledge.
The cult of the dead is an important part of our culture. Their bodies can rot, but not their memories. Our people have a strong sense of union thanks to these common and essential beliefs.
We have seen much of this strange New World. Things that our enemies certainly would like to know. Henceforth, all naval matters shall be regarded secret information.
Our shipwrights tell us that much could be accomplished in terms of efficiency when it comes to the production of galleys for our navy. By streamlining and standardizing production processes and ensuring that the shipyards are never unsupplied, we will lay a solid foundation for our country as a great naval power.
To ensure better quality of the cloth offered in the market we declare that if the cloth offered by a merchant is not found to be of satisfactory quality on three separate occasions, such merchant shall be tied to a post with said cloth attached to him as punishment.
Our ambassadors abroad should not only act as envoys, they should also be tasked with protecting and promoting our trade. They should look that all past agreements keep being extended and honored in foreign courts and shouldn't shy from spying on our competitors in order to sabotage their efforts.
To defend the egalitarian ideals of our nation, the entire population has a mandatory obligation to serve in any capacity of military or civil service once in their life. Regardless of stature or gender, we thrive together, we die together.
Exploration has become profitable and our merchants want to reach farther than their individual wealth allows. By establishing colonial companies, we can harness their capital to explore, expand and exploit.
Our ships carrying trade goods throughout the world benefit from taking routes established by the nature of winds and oceans. By securing these lanes, we can ensure that our trade is carried both safely and efficiently.
Raging storms on the open seas can test the faith of any sailor, especially one traveling in a war-torn vessel. Military Chaplains of the Fleet aid our recruits in maintaining hope through times of adversity.
Establishing trading posts in foreign lands is vital to our economic interests, but they tend to be at risk to attack from foreign powers and hostile locals. By providing each with a small garrison we can reduce this risk.
With a law requiring our diplomats to keep every single contract recorded for officials of the state to read, we can be more efficient in our endeavors.
To defend our home we need to be prepared to maintain a large cabinet capable of managing a large complex network of relations to ensure an international balance of power.
A strict training regime for our sailors will ensure that our ship crews understand how to most efficiently conduct a blockade and seizure of foreign relief to the siege.
As a wandering nation, our people are used to traveling and settling down in new conquered lands. A man cannot choose where he is born, but he can choose where he dies.
Our horde has been sailing in the rough sea of grass for centuries, now we have transferred that to the water. Let any other enemy ship sail only in blood.
An excellent way of keeping the gold flowing is to ensure that said gold is actually in movement. Our policies to protect trade will help us prevent merchants from choosing another route.
Divine guidance shows our ruler the right way. However, while he blesses us with his presence on Earth, he must also be helped by mundane counsel, so that god's blazing advice does not consume his soul.
The influence of our missionaries has never been so crucial, their reputation among our people has convinced them that the malignant rumors they may hear are not but spiteful whispers.
In the past, we have sent some of our best scholars to our ships in the pursue of a suitable documentation. They have now recorded a good number of chronicles reporting our greatest naval battles and the successful command of our admirals.
To share is to love. To receive is... just better. The altruistic reputation of our nation has granted us a prominent position in generous commercial exchanges.
Nature is a body, it has eyes and ears, it is everywhere, all the time, impossible to avoid. Everything that is said or done in our nation, we know through it.
Our people has a long history with canoes in the past and learned how to maneuver with them exceptionally well. Our sailors can transfer their canoe expertise onto the use of bigger ships too.
Supplying troops in foreign lands is never easy. Thankfully, we have learned a few tricks that make this a lot easier. For more details please see Hearts of Iron III on how to make a flawless logistics simulator.
Increasing the number of priests within the ranks of our military will help convince our soldiers that God is on our side in war and that they are doing God's work.
We must strive to instill zeal in our soldiers and make them willing to sacrifice themselves for our holy cause. At any time we must ensure that there is a great number of priests to care for the spiritual health of our men in the field, to lead them in worship and to take care of them when their lives end. We must also ensure that they are never without prayer books or any other religious material they might desire during our campaigns.
Forgoing neither the power of actions nor the power of words, our nation enlists both great ambassadors and orators and the military force to back their arguments.
Sometimes people need a 'gift' when you try to persuade them. By funneling more of our resources unto our diplomats we can more easily make people see things our way.
The prospect of wealth and prosperity has drawn a lot of adventurers to the newly discovered lands. By hiring the most capable ones we will make sure that their services are always at our disposal.
A fixed amount of compensation has been set for the monarch and various types of military and agricultural tenures owed to the crown have been removed.
By training loyal agents within our navy ready to put down their lives to convey information to our military we can take advantage of opportunities we might otherwise had missed.
Granting a certain degree of political autonomy to the estates of our subjects will give us more negotiating room in extracting taxes from their lands.
Scholarly learning tells us that war is inevitable, but it can also help us understand when it is likely to break out so that we may be prepared for it.
By creating a nobility in the colonies and providing the power to hold the locals with an iron fist we'll establish a great base for manpower for our national army.
Include the armies of our subject states into our own command so that everyone is getting the same orders and there is no confusion on the battlefield.
We protect our horses as much as we protect ourselves. Their speed and endurance have helped us on numerous occasions and are the reason why our ambitions of expansion can reach almost impossible limits. What a simple man travels in one week, we raze in one day.
The best defense is actually... a good defense. We have drawn inspiration from other armies in order to create a superior version of our armour that can endure the harshness of our battles, without affecting mobility.
Our religious men have finally understood that faith is not only a battle of the mind, but also of the body. Many of our monasteries are now the perfect places to be when looking for new soldiers.
Even in times of war, we must always remember that we fight for our people, not just for glory. It is our duty to protect them from hostile attacks, and it is theirs to help us in that matter.
A war on home soil is better fought than in foreign land. We know our soldiers and they know us, their discipline is unparalleled and their commitment unquestionable.
Our spies have studied our enemies' warfare and their formations until learning the best possible position for our cavalry. There are few things more frightening than waking up to the sound of our horse hooves shaking the earth.
What we do to our enemies is something that none of our subjects wants to experience. With our kharash tactic, we gather prisoners captured in previous battles and make them the vanguard in combat. To avoid that from happening, our vassals kindly prefer to fight on our side.
Our spy network knows the way in and out of our enemy castles, for they have seen them in god's supreme architecture. Some may call it infiltration, we call it vision.
What god has given you, you must return to him; what we have given to others, they must return to us. Our expansion around the world is a gift of enlightenment.
‘Dharma’ DLC these modifiers are replaced by 
+1 possible advisors per possible policy.
‘Legislative Houses’ government reform (tier 7 
monarchy)
‘Political Principle’ government reform (tier 7 
republic)
−10% administrative technology cost per possible policy.
−10% diplomatic technology cost per possible policy.
−10% military technology cost per possible policy.
‘Autonomous Swiss Cantons’ government reform (tier 1 
theocracy)
‘Church and State’ government reform (tier 7 
−10% advisor cost per free policy.
‘Administrative Clergy’ government reform (tier 4 
−10% administrative advisor cost per free policy.
‘Deccani Elites’ government reform (tier 2 
−10% diplomatic advisor cost per free policy.
−10% military advisor cost per free policy.
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The Combination Act
