Great Power: These countries are the top Eight countries in the world and can do stuff like influence people and add people into their sphere of influence, as well as being able to colonize. In the game, there are multiple ranks for countries, Six in total: I will instead use this paragraph for explaining Westernization. I don't want to bore you guys with the information between 1836-1859 as I didn't go to war with anyone or did anything else that exciting. Added to the fact that foreign powers such as Russia and the U.S wanted to get into Japan, this era became a period of serious instability within Japan. While the Shogunate was undeniably the controller of all of Japan, whether indirectly or directly, the Japanese Emperor in Kyoto, a mere figurehead for hundreds of years, was beginning to want more power in the government, and more and more Japanese began to agree with him. All these Daimyos are puppets of Shogunate Japan, which indirectly controls the entire Japanese Archipelago, and only directly controls a few areas around Edo, Nara, and Hokkaido.
I am using the HPM mod which changes Japan drastically from vanilla.Īt the beginning of the game, Japan is divided into Daimyos, small areas where local rulers control. In this installment of Victoria 2, I am playing as Shogunate Japan and I am aiming to be top dog of East Asia.
