Louisiana

Primary culture

English (British)

Capital province

Mobile (922)

Government

Republic

State religion

Reformed

Technology group

Western

Colonial ideas

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

Louisiana is a formable country at the Mississippi in North America that is not available at any game start.

Formation[edit]

Louisiana can be formed by any former colonial nation with its capital in ‘Colonial Louisiana’ (colonial region).

id

Form Louisianan Nation

Our people have had to adopt a hardened frontier lifestyle in this great wilderness. We are now simply a different people than Europeans: a coarser, tougher breed of men, wilder, intermarrying with the Indian. Let us build on the trade and soil of these rich riverlands, and amaze the world with our rugged prowess.

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

Louisiana 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 10 cities in the Colonial Louisiana region.

Effects

The country:

changes to Louisiana.
gains a permanent claim on every non-owned province of:
- Colonial Louisiana 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.