With maximum prestige of 100, a country gets the following modifiers:[1]
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+15%
Global trade power
+10%
Morale of armies
+10%
Morale of navies
+10%
Foreign spy detection
+1%
Yearly legitimacy
+50%
Improve relations
+1%
Monthly fervor
−10%
Aggressive expansion impact
−10%
Embracement cost
+0.05
Monthly heir claim increase
+5%
Brahmins loyalty equilibrium
+5%
Clergy loyalty equilibrium
+5%
Marathas loyalty equilibrium
+5%
Nobility loyalty equilibrium
+5%
Burghers loyalty equilibrium
+5%
Vaishyas loyalty equilibrium
+5%
Cossacks loyalty equilibrium
+5%
Tribes loyalty equilibrium
+5%
Dhimmi loyalty equilibrium
+5%
Jains loyalty equilibrium
+5%
Rajputs loyalty equilibrium
At −100 prestige a country has the reverse of these benefits as penalties. In-between the benefits and penalties scale linearly. At 0 prestige there are no benefits or penalties from prestige.
↑Which provinces are holy depends on state religion. They are as follows:
Coptic: Alexandria
Hindu: Varanasi
Inti (reformed): Lima
Mahayana: Luoyang
Mayan (reformed): Sotuta
Nahuatl (reformed): Cholula
Orthodox: Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, Jerusalem and Rome (as long as all provinces are Orthodox)
Sikh: Doaba (as long as the province is Sikh)
Theravada: Kandy
Vajrayana: Lhasa
Any Buddhist: Bodh Gaya (in game, the name of the province is Pataliputra (558))
Any Christian: Mecca
Any Christian (except Catholic) or Muslim: Rome
Any Christian, Jewish or Muslim: Jerusalem
↑Only for the country that signed the peace, except with The Cossacks DLC.
Certain ideas and bonuses give yearly prestige:
Traditions
Ideas
Bonuses
Policies
+1.0
Aachen traditions
Chiba traditions
Ormond traditions
Silesian traditions
Sonoran traditions
Tyrone traditions
Religious idea 5: Religious Tradition
Aboriginal idea 1: Aboriginal Art
Ainu idea 4: Heirs of Jomon
Air idea 4: The Blue People
Aksumite idea 1: Stellae Builders
Alaskan idea 7: The Beauty of Alaska
Albanian idea 3: Kingdom of Albania
American idea 6: Shining City on a Hill
Anatolian idea 7: Legacy of the Great Seljuq Empire
Andean idea 7: Zampano Music
Anhalt idea 5: Dessau Garden Kingdom
Ansbach idea 1: Land of the Hohenzollerns
Antemoro idea 3: Office of the Andrianoni
Arabian idea 7: Arabia
Ashikaga idea 3: Higashiyama Culture
Athenian idea 4: Revive the Latin Greece
Augsburger idea 3: Birthplace of Hans Holbein the Younger
Ava idea 1: Legacy of the Pagan dynasty
Aymaran idea 4: Cultivate Aymara Dances
Baden idea 1: Hot Springs
Balinese idea 3: Aristocratic Refugees
Bavarian idea 3: Found the Bavarian State Orchestra
Bayreuther idea 7: Margravial Opera House
Beloozero idea 2: Monastic Traditions
Berg idea 6: Dusseldorf Art Gallery
Bolognese idea 5: La Rossa
Brabant idea 3: Palace of Coudenberg
Breton idea 7: The Catholicon
Bulgarian idea 5: Reform The Bulgarian Church
Burgundian idea 1: The Order of the Golden Fleece
Caucasian idea 4: Persian Poetry
Chachapoyan idea 6: Purunmachus
Chagatai idea 4: Chagatai Literature
Charruan idea 7: The Last Charruas
Chickasaw idea 7: Swan Feathers Mantle
Chinese idea 4: Nation of Rites and Etiquettes
Chosokabe idea 6: God of Arts
Couronian idea 6: Palaces of Mitau
Creek idea 4: Four Mother Towns
Dahomey idea 7: Palaces of Abomey
Dai Viet idea 2: Confucian Revival
Daimyo idea 7: Honor Unto Death
Dali idea 1: Renovate the City of Jumie
Dortmund idea 2: Meeting Place of Bishops and Emperors
Epirote idea 2: Chronicle of the Tocco
Ethiopian idea 1: Solomonid Claim
Franconian idea 6: A Baroque Duchy
Frankfurter idea 5: Civil Cultural Centre
French Ducal idea 5: French Cuisine
Fulani Jihad idea 7: The Caliph in Africa
German idea 7: Residenzstadt
Granada idea 7: Successor Caliphate of Cordoba
Guarani idea 3: Echoes of Iguazu
Hanoverian idea 4: Herrenhausen Gardens
Hatakeyama idea 1: Kanrei Candidate
Hausan idea 2: Regnal Chronicles
Hawaiian idea 3: Hula
Hejazi idea 7: Successor to the Caliphate
Highlander idea 7: Ossian
Huron idea 7: Eldest Children
Imagawa idea 6: In the Shadow of Mount Fuji
Incan idea 1: Machu Picchu
Indian Sultanate idea 6: High Court Culture
Interlacustrine idea 2: Heirs of Kitara
Iroquois idea 7: The Four Kings
Italian (minor) idea 5: High Renaissance Art & Architecture
Italian idea 6: Heir to the Empire
Ito idea 1: Gokenin Family
Japanese idea 5: Land of the Rising Sun
Jaunpuri idea 6: Hindustani Classical Music
Jerusalem idea 1: Crown of Thorns
K'iche idea 7: Popol Vuh
Kangra idea 6: Pahari Painting
Khmer idea 6: Restoration of Angkor
Kievan idea 1: Mother of All Cities
Kikuchi idea 2: Land of Fire
Kuban idea 3: People of Ornaments
Ladakh idea 1: The Two Kingdoms of Ladakh
Laotian idea 2: Nithan Khun Borom
Leonese idea 6: Patronize the Leonese Language
Lorraine idea 7: Place Stanislas
Madyas idea 5: Articles of the Confederation
Mainzian idea 1: Archicancellarius per Germaniam
Malayan Sultanate idea 6: Heirs of Pasai
Mamluk idea 2: Monuments to our Greatness
Mapuche idea 7: Ruxafe
Mazovian idea 1: Piast Legacy
Mewari idea 2: Construct the Victory Tower
Miao idea 4: Miao Silver
Milanese idea 2: Patron of Music
Moldavian idea 1: First Dismounting
Mori idea 7: Hagi Ware
Mughal idea 6: Mughal Architecture
Muiscan idea 2: El Dorado
Muskogean Federation idea 5: The Great Ball Game
Neapolitan idea 6: City of Artists
Nepalese Princedom idea 4: Kavindra
Nivernais idea 7: Greatest Palace of the Loire Valley
Northumbrian idea 5: Lindisfarne Gospels
Norwegian idea 7: Write New Sagas
Novgorod idea 1: Northern Center of Arts
Ogasawara idea 2: Suwa Taisha
Orissan idea 5: Patronize Temple Construction
Orleanaise idea 1: Monsieur d'Orleans
Pagarruyung idea 6: Rumah Gadang
Palembang idea 1: Ancient Scriptures
Persian idea 5: Encourage Art
Perugian idea 4: Perugian Signoria
Pisan idea 2: The Leaning Tower
Pueblo idea 7: Legend of Cibola
Rajput idea 5: Create Rajput Painting School
Rothenburg idea 2: The Beautiful City
Ryukyuan idea 3: Shuri Castle
Sadiyan idea 4: Temples of Sadiya
Samoan idea 5: Tatau
Shirvani idea 6: Shirvani Architecture
Sinhalese idea 2: Sinhalese Sandesas
Sistani idea 2: Saffarid Legacy
Songhai idea 5: The Hajj
South Indian idea 6: South Indian Literature
Spanish idea 7: Siglo de Oro
Sukhothai idea 1: Birthplace of a Culture
Sumatran idea 6: Legacy of Srivijaya
Swabian idea 6: Memory of the Hohenstaufen
Swiss idea 6: Haven for Refugees
Telugu idea 1: Patronize Telugu Literature
Texan idea 1: Lone Star State
Timurid idea 1: Timurid Architecture
Tirhuti idea 3: Brahmin Kings
Toki idea 2: Ranjatai
Tongan idea 1: The Tangaloa Mythos
Transoxianian idea 2: Threshold of Paradise
Trebizond idea 1: Komnenoi in Exile
Trierian idea 6: Prüm Abbey
Tsutsui idea 3: Kasuga Shrine
Tuscan idea 4: Patron of the Arts
Ulmer idea 3: Birthplace of German Realism
Ulster idea 2: Peerage of Ulster
Urbinate idea 3: The Ducal Palace of Urbino
Veronese idea 2: In Fair Verona
Vijayanagar idea 5: Carnatic Music
Vindhyan idea 4: Bundeli Kalam
Welsh idea 2: Bardic Literature
Wurzburgian idea 7: Baroque Artists
Württemberger idea 6: Ludwigsburg
Yamana idea 5: Acquisition of Torin'in
Yemeni idea 4: Yemeni Architecture
Ardabili ambition
Bengali ambition
Byzantine ambition
Caspian ambition
Chimu ambition
Great Shun ambition
Horn of African ambition
Kildarean ambition
Krakowian ambition
Luban ambition
Maori ambition
Muskogean ambitions
Provençal ambition
Saxon ambition
Sicilian ambition
Smolenskian ambition
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+0.5
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Bahmani idea 2: Legacy of Gisu Daraz
Farsi idea 5: Shirazi School
Ferraran idea 6: Este Castle
Lotharingian idea 5: The Court of Europe
Malvi idea 2: Malvi Art & Architecture
Montferrat idea 1: Cousins to Kings and Emperors
Plains Native idea 6: Plains Sign Language
Ruthenian idea 1: The Mother of Russian States
Ruthenian idea 1: The Mother of Russian States
Sardinian-Piedmontese idea 3: The Shroud of Turin
Savoyard idea 2: The Shroud of Turin
Siamese idea 1: Royal Poets
Vermont idea 2: The Boston Tea Party
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Humanist-Horde: Calming the Tides
Humanist-Quality: Visionary Thinkers
Innovative-Plutocratic: The Education Act
There are also several action that directly impact the amount of prestige. Winning battles will give prestige depending on how many combatants that fought. The prestige gained can be increased by:
There is a base decay of 5% prestige per year: that is, a country loses 5% of its current prestige every year. This includes negative prestige, meaning that prestige always tends towards a base level (by default zero), and changes faster the farther away it is from the base level. For monarchies, each point of prestige will eventually convert itself to about 0.195 points of legitimacy with a half-life of 13.5 years. The idea “Patron of the Arts” from the Innovativeidea group reduces this decay rate by −1%, to 4% loss per year. This means that each change of ±1 yearly prestige changes the base level of prestige by ±20, or ±25 with Patron of the Arts; without other sources of prestige (such as battles) it will approach the base level over time. A few national ideas also lower prestige decay: