California

Primary culture

Castilian (Iberian)^[1]

Capital province

Ohlone (4637)

Government

Republic

State religion

Catholic

Technology group

Western

Colonial ideas

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Notes:

For colonial nations.

Traditions:

−10% Development cost

Heretic and heathen provinces do not give any penalties

Founding Fathers

+0.5 Yearly republican tradition

Continental Trade

+25% Provincial trade power modifier

Manufacturing Center of an Empire

−10% Construction cost

Free Thinkers

−10% Idea cost

Colonial Militia

−10% Regiment cost

New Frontiers

Automatically discover adjacent when a colony is built.

+20 Global settler increase

Liberty Heroes

+1 Leader without upkeep

Ambition:

+10% Morale of armies

California is a formable country in the Colonial California region of North America that is not playable at any start date.

Formation[edit | edit source]

California can be formed by any former colonial nation in the California region.

id

Form Californian Nation

We have made a home in this rugged land. It is time for us to muster our strength and cast off the oppression of our colonial overlords, so that we may build a paradise in the West.

Potential requirements

is not playing with random New World.
has not enacted a colonial nation formation decision before.
is not an end-game tag.
is not a nomad nation.
Either:
- is a colonial nation.
- is a former colonial nation.
- Capital is in the Colonial California region.
  - is not in a native American technology group.
owns a province in the Colonial California region.

Allow

California does not exist.
Administrative technology is at least 10.
is not a subject nation other than a tributary state.
is not at war.
Capital is in the Colonial California region.
owns at least 10 cities in the California region.

Effects

The country:

changes to California.
gains a permanent claim on every non-owned province of:
- Colonial California region.
gains 25 prestige.
gets the modifier “Increased Centralization” for 20 years:
- −0.05 Monthly autonomy change
- +1 National unrest

If the country:

is a member of the Holy Roman Empire and not an elector or the emperor
- then all its provinces are removed from the HRE.
is a duchy
- then it becomes a kingdom.
was not a former colonial nation then:
- it loses all subjects in Europe, Asia, and Africa
- it inherits all its colonial nations
- it will not be able to form any colonial nations^[2]
- all its provinces in Europe, Asia, and Africa are ceded to their former nation
if primary culture is in the British culture group:
- change primary culture to American.
if primary culture is in the Iberian culture group:
- change primary culture to Mexican.
if primary culture is in the French culture group:
- change primary culture to Louisianan.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ If the country forming California is in the Iberian culture group, California will adopt Mexican culture. Likewise with American for British nations.
↑ the country flag no_colonial_nations prevents the formation of colonial nations, but they can still be acquired by annexing a country which has colonial nations

Country guides

Western technology group