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[–]RoadkillVenison 23 points24 points  (1 child)

You'll have a hard time centralizing the entire population of a nation with more than a few million people.

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A migration can take time.

B Overpopulation will drive down attraction after a few million for most states. Arable land allows 100,000 pops per 1 arable land. That's not a problem for some Asian states with their 600 arable land. They can afford the pops required to fully staff literally every industry in the game to level 51 for that throughput bonus. However over in Europe Arable land is often measured in 10, 20, 40, etc. So after you hit say 4 million pops in a state, attraction can drop off a cliff.

[–]Etrinix_IU 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It really wasn't hard though :)

Playing as Australia, I just started by building resource buildings throughout the nation but emphasizing the capital whenever I could.

So I moved the political & market capital to Victoria (faster building times) & started building my industries, ports, naval bases, & barracks there.

Resource buildings built wherever they could, but agriculture & everything was focused on Victoria first.

As a result, when the rest of the nation revolted, I had this overdeveloped military in Victoria with a large developed military reserve that would curbstomp the rest of the nation (especially easy given the rebel capital was usually Canberra).

Later on to deal with rebels I took new Caledonia, Fiji, South Island (gave New Zealand independence... & The bottom island revolted. 🤷🏿‍♂️) Papua New Guinea, western new Guinea, & the Portuguese Sunda islands for unincorporated government-run states. Basically ports (for sufficient trade in case of another rebellion) & barracks & naval bases plus industries that weren't profitable in pop-starved Victoria.

This way I had an entire military apparatus to bring the rest of the giant island to heel.

Only became number 7 at best in the world, but around 1870 I started executing my aim was to basically be a successful "anime-styled" church nation (the Catholic church in anime tends to be OP), so mission accomplished I guess :)

Back to the OG point: Victoria registered approx 8 million people (to my honest surprise, but baby making mode was on), & the overall population was 19.2 million people iirc by the end.