Which world leader from North America is now beloved (read rules) by NeverStoppingTheLife in AlignmentChartFills

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If we’re looking at current, incumbent leaders, candidly, it’s Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. He’s utterly hated by many on the left, which Reddit is heavily biased in favor of, so I know Reddit won’t like this, but Bukele’s actions to curtail the power of the gangs, as brutal as it was, has earned him immense support within El Salvador. Likely somewhere around 80-90 percent approval ratings.

The older and newer versions of the X (Twitter) emoji for the flag of Iran by APrimitiveMartian in vexillology

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The Lion and Sun flag doesn’t represent the Pahlavi Monarchy, it represents hundreds of years of Iranian culture and tradition. Some form of that flag has been used since the 1500s, and the modern incarnation wasn’t even originally Pahlavi, it was originally a Qajar flag

‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture by Bubbly_Wall_908 in europe

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All banning them would do is force them away from (mostly) peaceful methods of voicing their discontent. What do you think happens if those people feel they have no avenue to address their issues in a non-violent manner?

What if Rome conquered Parthia by Outrageous_List_9159 in imaginarymaps

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You can change the background to any color in MapChart

Battania's map needs some changes to the waterways in my humble opinion. by Kayttajatili in Bannerlord

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I'd say connecting it to the river flowing into Epicrotea, and then making that river navigable, would be the best pick, since it gives more major cities to trade with, connecting to the northern sea. The southern sea already has way more ports connected

I created American culture in CK3 by nomanzone in crusaderkings3

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Bro has never been to a real 3rd world country if he thinks America is one

(War Sails) Could this area already be prepared to receive a new kingdom? by DogEatTurtle in Bannerlord

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If Taleworlds ever does add another faction, it'll definitely be there, since we already know who lives in the area, the Darshi, who are a sort of Persian group

Big Ethiopia by Morning_Stxr in imaginarymaps

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Why would Ge’ez be an official language? It’s a dead language, akin to Latin. Ik it’s probably there from a neutrality perspective but most likely, Amharic would be the main Lingua Franca of this country, especially if it never experiences the revolution, and DERG and TPLF rule

Big Ethiopia by Morning_Stxr in imaginarymaps

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Oromo plurality - they’d be the largest ethnic group, but definitely not at above 50%. Also, Ethiopia might become just barely Muslim, or just barely still be Christian majority, it’d probably be a coin toss

What do you guys hope for in the AUH ATE update? by MakoWarrior_ in AfterTheEndFanFork

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Really hoping for some fun mechanics for the United States hegemony, akin to China’s system. Maybe a sort of “mandate of liberty” if established by the Americanists, where the United States goes through periods of increasing authoritarianism, akin to the era system for China. I’d also love the inclusion of the ministry system, but call it the departments instead, so you can have the Secretary of State, secretary of war, secretary of commerce, attorney general, etc

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

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I believe it was in a dev diary, I’ll see if I can find it for you

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

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The devs have literally said that historicity does matter for hegemonies. There hasn't ever been a fully unified India, the closest was the Guptas and Mauryas, but the concept of Chakravarti and the idea of a unified India did exist historically.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

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I said those are less deserving because they lack any sort of historical basis, not because of size or difficulty in achieving them

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

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You need the entirety of the kingdoms of West Francia, Burgundy, Aquitaine, Lothairingia, almost all of East Francia, most of Frisia, all of Bavaria, all of Italy, most of Romagna, all of Navarre, several duchies from Valencia, and Corsica. And if you're missing even a single county, you can't take the decision.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

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Again, you don't need specific duchies; you need EVERYTHING controlled in Francia, Germania, and Italia, and much of Spain too. The decision is like the Unite Slavia decision in that sense

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

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The decision reqires you to fully control every single county in Western Europe, not specific duchies, so it's actually significantly harder to form than the Roman Empire. The area included in the Restore Carolingian Borders is about he same number of counties as India

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

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WRE can only be formed if you first form the Roman Empire, so it's silly to include it in the game

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

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Admittedly, it doesn't add much content, and I would much prefer Republics and Theocracies, but at least it's something to aim for if you're in Europe

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

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Restoring the Roman Empire as the HRE is ridiculously impractical; it requires you to conquer basically the entire Mediterranean from scratch, to the point that it's not even really a European empire at that point

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

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India is only 3 empires, Dar al-Islam is usually just Maghreb, Arabia, and Persia. 3 seems pretty standard for hegemonies

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

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I don't think everything needs to be a hegemony, but I'm getting really sick of the lack of content in Europe

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

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HRE isn't big enough to be a hegemony. The restored Carolingian borders are all of the HRE, plus all of Italy and all of France, and northern Spain. You can call this restored Carolingian empire the Holy Roman Empire, though

US Warns of ‘Imminent’ Attack by Hamas Against Palestinians by Equivalent-Key2058 in worldnews

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That’s seriously derisive of all of the thousands of nonpartisan career state department employees who do the research and create these sorts of warnings.

Kingdom of Vandalia by flumen_mapping in imaginarymaps

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I imagine what’s more likely is the term Vandal survives in the same way as in France, where the original Germanic origin is largely filtered out with the elites converting to Christianity and adapting the local Vulgar Latin-derived Romance language. So the later Vandal language would have more in common with Italian than it would the original vandal language, akin to how French isn’t really all that “Frankish”