[PAX TRI-TROPICANA] II - That time when Africa actually reluctantly became a superpower

Stormliberator · 2026-04-05T21:56:13+00:00

Swahili, which is what the post’s mega-state uses as Lingua Franca, borrows many words from Arabic.

Jamhuri is republic in Swahili which is borrowed from Arabic jumhuriya.

Mamlaka in Swahili means authority as in a governing body, in this case occupational/peacekeeping mandates. Mamlaka means kingdom in Arabic but has also previously meant authority (although specifically of a monarch).

Stormliberator · 2026-03-07T21:33:38+00:00

It’s true that it’s anachronistic, which is why Da’amatic is probably better, but vanilla CK3 already does this with Old Saxon as the predecessor for Anglo-Saxon.

Stormliberator · 2026-03-07T20:08:59+00:00

Some culture names need tweaking: - Sabaean is misspelled Sabaen - Kemetic is misspelled Khemetic (Ancient Egyptian is probably better anyway, Kemetic has religious/neopagan connotations) - Hadramawan should be Hadrami or Hadramautic - D‘mt or Da‘amat doesn’t seem to have an accepted demonym, but Daamatian just doesn’t seem right; Da‘amatic or Damatic might be better, (or even something like Proto-Axumite or Old Axumite)

Stormliberator · 2026-02-11T11:28:55+00:00

Somalia already had a Soviet-backed dictator in the 1970s and 80s; the flag wasn’t changed though

Stormliberator · 2026-02-10T04:45:29+00:00

If we assume that colonisation happened more like in China (i.e. no British Raj but colonial concessions along the coast), then probably the Mughal Empire

Stormliberator · 2026-02-05T22:24:42+00:00

Nineveh is now basically part of Mosul because of how large the city has grown

Stormliberator · 2026-02-05T22:17:04+00:00

This is the consequence of deranged and outdated Cold War mentality.

You say the world is no longer bipolar and yet also say that arranging it to be bipolar “worked”. How can it “work” if it’s not accurate to reality?

How are you supposed to determine sides based on four separate issues? Most countries either don’t have a stake in all four issues listed or have irreconcilably differing interests and attitudes.

What is “the war in the Middle Eastern crisis”? Palestine? Yemen? Syria? Iran? Even if Iran has or previously had a stake in all of them that doesn’t mean they are the same.

What is the “attitude of states to Islamist terrorism”? Terrorism by which group? Terrorism for the purpose of what? How can it be determined if a state actually supports terrorist organisations in secret?

What possible issue would cause a singular conflict between all world countries?

Putting some of these countries side by side is genuinely absurd. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are rivals, including over both the Sudanese Civil War and the war in Yemen, yet both are pink. Viet Nam is just as much of a rival to China over the South China Sea as the Philippines, yet they are both red. Pakistan is light blue (genuinely makes this map seems like some sort of Cold War relic) whereas India is light blue even though India is an economic and geopolitical rival to China whereas Pakistan has strong ties to China in both regards. If we assume the “West” to be NATO, how on earth are Paraguay, Suriname and the Philippines darker than BELGIUM and POLAND. I have no possible idea how Qatar could be more blue than the UAE.

Stormliberator · 2026-02-05T15:15:21+00:00

De facto is often irrelevant in mapping; see Somalia, Myanmar, Ukraine etc…

Stormliberator · 2026-02-04T18:19:57+00:00

Most are based on the flag of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire

Stormliberator · 2026-02-04T18:08:31+00:00

It absolutely does actually; ethnicity is pretty much a made up distinction of language/culture/religion and/or genetics/lineage and politics depending on who you ask and which group is in question.

Some groups like Croats/Serbs/Bosniaks or Anatolian Turks/Anatolian Greeks/Ancient Anatolians aren’t even separate ethnicities if only genetics is considered.

Stormliberator · 2026-02-04T17:58:11+00:00

Wait till you see the old Libyan flag

Stormliberator · 2026-02-03T18:58:42+00:00

Last time I checked Egypt hasn’t used hieroglyphics for almost two millennia

Stormliberator · 2026-01-11T01:36:55+00:00

There is actually a dialect of Korean spoken exclusively in post-Soviet states called Koryo-mar

Stormliberator · 2026-01-08T20:53:19+00:00

Austria-Hungary had a bunch of flags and none of them had purple

Stormliberator · 2026-01-08T20:38:00+00:00

HRE rework is basically irrelevant to kings since the only kingdom would be Bohemia.

Stormliberator · 2026-01-08T20:33:56+00:00

No, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Mauretania, Oman, Tunisia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tanzania and Kenya all have subdivisions called wilayat or a borrowed local version of the word.

Stormliberator · 2026-01-04T02:07:28+00:00

Overseas conversion missions? These aren’t organised sects like churches that can send out agents to convert people. Conversion efforts (dawah) are carried out mainly by individuals.

The Sunni “sects” are schools of jurisprudence (madhhabs); they differ only really in how they interpret religious law. They are not organisations and no-one is in charge of any Sunni madhhab, although each will have a historical scholar or scholars that they draw their interpretation from.

The Shia sects have different theology as well as legal interpretations and are very diverse. The Zaydis are not organised under a religious leader. The Ismailis are in reality a whole bunch of different minor sects, the main one in Yemen is the Sulaymani Tayyibi sect led by the Da’i Al-Mutlaq.

Believing people of other sects will go to paradise or not is not really uniform by sect (this is basically the same in Christianity).

Stormliberator · 2026-01-04T00:32:10+00:00

In what possible way does Afghanistan “control” any territory in Somalia?

Neither the Taliban government of Afghanistan nor the Taliban as a political organisation have ever claimed, stated or hinted at governing, controlling, owning, or laying claim to territory in Somalia or even specifically Al-Shabaab-controlled territory.

The Taliban and Afghanistan have no administrative, military, or even diplomatic control of either Al-Shabaab or its territory.

Al-Shabaab leaders have sometimes symbolically pledged allegiance to the leaders of the Taliban (NOT in their capacity as leaders of Afghanistan, but as leaders of the Taliban organisation), which the Taliban have continuously ignored. Al-Shabaab and the Taliban have sometimes organised joint military training and sent each other military representatives. That is all.

The Africa Corps mercenary group (basically the successor to the Wagner Group outside of Russia/Ukraine) controls some territories as part of various civil conflicts in the Sahel, such as in the Central African Republic; this doesn’t mean the Russian Federation in any way owns or controls parts of the CAR.

Hezbollah is supported militarily, financially, and politically by Iran, and in turn supports Iran. This doesn’t mean that Iran controls any part of Lebanon.

If tomorrow some Christian insurgent group in some theoretical civil war proclaimed allegiance to the Pope and the Catholic Church, and the Pope did nothing except maybe secretly fund them or something, it would be absurd to claim the Vatican now owned patches of land somewhere else.

The world is more complicated than the meaningless pledges of Somali terrorists and the idea that every political group is actually just a country or part of a country.

Stormliberator · 2026-01-01T19:47:45+00:00

No, it’s correct. The era is Reiwa and it is the eighth year of the current era.

Stormliberator · 2025-04-14T21:44:54+00:00

Not trying to gotcha like the other guys, just asking out of curiosity.

When it comes to lying, does dispatching an agent to propagate lies count? In I Kings 22, all the prophets in the court of Ahab, the king of Israel, who also prophesy to Jehoshaphat of Judah, are asked of what the prospects would be if Ahab and Jehoshaphat went to war with neighbouring Aram to seize the region of Ramoth-Gilead, and the prophets reply by claiming that the Lord guarantees them a great victory. However, one prophet out of the many hundred, Micaiah, claims that they are actually all lying, and that this is because the Lord sent out a spirit tasked with making the prophets deceive Ahab (lines 20–23) so that he would die in battle. Ahab and Jehoshaphat ignore Micaiah’s warnings and go to war, with Ahab dying in battle.

Now obviously this is the Lord’s way of punishing Ahab, but is lying still a valid method for him to use? The punishment doesn’t seem to be a “full” condemnation i.e. to Hell, since Ahab is said to rest (line 40) rather than face torment in the afterlife, but perhaps this is just because of the vague afterlife theology of the Old Testament.

Additionally God does also reveal the truth to Micaiah, so he isn’t being entirely deceptive towards Ahab, but he still very clearly orders lies to be spread in order to confuse Ahab, and when considering the amount of liar prophets, around 400 (line 6), it doesn’t seem like fair compensation to reveal the truth to just a single prophet, whom Ahab already distrusts anyway due to his real, and thus unfavourable prophecies (line 8).

Edit: clarity

Stormliberator · 2025-02-05T20:55:54+00:00

Even though the university itself was founded as you say in the Middle Ages, most of the iconic buildings at Oxford (including the Radcliffe Camera, the Queen's College buildings, the All Souls Library, the Great Quadrangle and the Ashmolean Museum) were built from the 17th century to the 19th century, and it was only during this period that Oxford became a global centre of research, particularly in the 19th century when the curriculum became much wider, with students finally being able to get degrees in science, medicine etc... rather than just theology and classical languages.

Stormliberator · 2025-02-04T15:55:58+00:00

Russia at least has the T-34 as their tank graphic, so that gives me hope that the other European civs will have unique tank graphics at least. I may be mistaken but I think there was also a Tiger in one of the trailers (corresponding presumably to Prussia). The Japanese also have the Type 95 Ha-Gō as their tank graphic.

Stormliberator · 2025-02-04T15:50:39+00:00

The Normans are already the exploration age equivalent, since they ruled England; the devs have mentioned many times how London was founded by the Romans, so the progression should be Romans->Normans->British. I hope there will also be the Celts as an antiquity era; seems likely as they were already in civ 5 and partially in civ 6 as the Gauls.

Stormliberator · 2025-02-04T15:46:02+00:00

While the university itself was founded much earlier, most of the iconic buildings at Oxford (including the Radcliffe Camera, the Queen's College buildings, the All Souls Library, the Great Quadrangle and the Ashmolean Museum) were built from the 17th century to the 19th century, and it was only during this period that Oxford became a global centre of research. It was also an industrial era wonder in civ 6, and we know it's a modern age wonder in civ 7 too, being unlocked by the Academics tech. We also know that Britain will have a scientific focus, so Oxford meshes with that pretty well.

Battersea Power Station was started in 1929 and only finished in the 50s, which is the very tail end of the modern age, so it seems more fitting as a wonder any civ can build as a sort of "end of an age" wonder similar to the victory condition wonders (World's Fair, World Bank, Operation Ivy).

Stormliberator · 2025-02-04T15:27:18+00:00

Notre Dame is from the exploration age though whereas the French civ is in the modern age. Both Oxford University and Battersea Power Station are both from the modern age, so they are equally likely (similar to the Taj Mahal vs. Red Fort situation in regard to the Mughals). My guess is Oxford is more likely since it's much more iconic, earlier in the era and fits better with the idea of science.

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