Victoria 2 province map update#

This prevents us from setting higher than 25% tariffs.

Over to the politics screen, we can see that our current party's trade policy is Free Trade. I'd like to max our tariffs out as well, but our current trade policy is capping us at 25%. If our budget begins to show a healthy surplus, we can slide that up as well later. Military spending can stay at half funding for now. We're going to want to max out our education slider as well as our administration slider. If you recall, having up to 4% clergy in each of our states will help considerably with improving our literacy over time. In order to promote literacy growth, we're going to need to promote the growth of our clergy demographic. We'll do this by heavily promoting clergy throughout our country and by focusing on researching techs which improve our literacy gain and research rate. This should be one of the first areas that we focus on trying to improve. This deficiency contributes to slower technology research rate as well. Our nation has a pretty bad literacy rate: 7.7% and rising slowly.

All of the world's RGOs need to start producing and selling materials, artisans and factories need to start producing goods, and pops need to earn some wages and start buying things before the world economy settles into a groove that we can make sense out of. I should note however that nearly all budget, income, expense, and pricing information takes at least a few days, or possibly a few weeks of game time to get set straight. We'll need to visit the budget screen to make sure we are making money. For one thing, our treasury only contains about 5000 smackaroonies, and it looks like we're running a small daily deficit. Before we unpause, we'll want to handle some basic setup and maintenance of our nation though.

Now that we've finished poking around in all of the different screens, why don't we just get started.

Victoria 2 province map update#

Part 2: Update 2 (Jan 1836 - Sept 1837): Getting Started & The War of the Pacific