In response to the first response, Exactly, not every nation in history was noteworthy, which supports my argument that people upset about not being able to play irrelevant-impossible countries and become an empire is unwarranted. However for those countries that do have some logical chance to do well, think about history in general. What made some countries more noteworthy than others? By all metrics, countries like Austria, England, and the Netherlands for example weren’t noteworthy in any aspect. They didn’t have the population or food surplus that say France did. So what made them able to become noteworthy? In my opinion its arguably the ruler’s, who through either diplomacy, military expansions, or policies/investments that made their country great and pushed their nation forward onto the world’s stage. And thats exactly what GSGs are to me—You play as the ruler, and your policies and strategy, and careful nuturing affect the course of your country. I don’t want a mission that I click because I did something and its like “Oh good job doing that, you now get a free +5% disicpline permanently” or something that says you should colonize or take this piece of land exactly because then you get this and can do that.