Illinois

Primary culture

Francien (French)

Capital province

Illinois (915)

Government

Republic

State religion

Catholic

Technology group

Western

Colonial ideas

Notes:

For colonial nations.

Traditions:

−10% Development cost

Heretic and heathen provinces do not give any penalties

Founding Fathers

+1 Yearly devotion

+1 Yearly legitimacy

+1 Yearly horde unity

+0.5 Yearly republican tradition

+1 Yearly meritocracy

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

-1 National Unrest

Ambition:

+10% Morale of armies

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

Formation[edit | edit source]

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Form Illinoisan Nation

The Illinois Country has long been an administrative branch of the colony of Louisiana, but now that we are free we may begin to turn our attention away from the immeasurable length of the Mississippi and towards the Great Lakes.

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 Louisiana region.
  - is not in a native American technology group.
owns a province in the Colonial Louisiana region.

Allow

Illinois 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 Louisiana region.
owns at least 5 cities in the Great Lakes region as cores.

Effects

The country:

changes to Illinois.
gains a permanent claim on every non-owned province of:
- Great Lakes 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^[1]
- 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 French culture group:
- change primary culture to Louisianan.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ 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