West Indies

Primary culture

English (British)

Capital province

Jamaica (487)

Government

Republic

State religion

Catholic

Technology group

Western

West Indies ideas

Traditions:

−10% Development cost

+1 Merchant

Plantation Economy

−10% Construction cost

+10% Production efficiency

Blue Mountain Coffee

+20% Institution spread

The Sugar Revolution

−2 National unrest

The American Trade Hub

+5% Global trade power

+10% Trade range

Miskito-Zambos

+2 Max promoted cultures

Interconnected Relations

+1 Diplomatic reputation

Colonial Legacy

+25% Naval force limit modifier

Ambition:

+1 Colonist

West Indies is a formable country in the Colonial Caribbean region of North America that is not available at any game start.

Formation[edit]

West Indies can be formed by any former colonial nation that owns the required provinces of ‘Colonial Caribbean’ (colonial region).

id

Form Caribbean Nation

Now that our islands have been cut from the corrupt and weak powers of the Old World, we must federalise ourselves into a nation capable of uniting our disporate islands and their countless cultures and languages. We will never be one people, but in the West Indies Federation, we will dwell together in unity.

Potential requirements

The game is not using a random New World. The country:

is not a nomad nation.
was never an end-game tag.
is a colonial nation or former colonial nation.
owns a province in Colonial Caribbean (colonial region).
has not formed one of these countries before.

If this country is AI-controlled, it must own at least 3 provinces.

Allow

The country:

is a former colonial nation.
has an administrative technology of at least level 10.
is not a subject nation other than a tributary state.
is not at war.
has its capital in the Colonial Caribbean, and it is a core.
owns at least 10 cities in Colonial Caribbean as cores.

West Indies does not exist.

Effects

The country:

changes to West Indies.
gains a permanent claim on every non-owned province of Colonial Caribbean.
gains 25 prestige.
gets the modifier “Increased Centralization” for 20 years with the following effects:
- −0.05 monthly autonomy change,
- +1 national unrest.

If the country

is a member of the Holy Roman Empire but not the emperor or an elector
- then all its provinces are removed from the HRE.
is a duchy
- then it becomes a kingdom
does not have custom ideas
- then it gets the event ‘New Traditions & Ambitions’.