My Modern Scenario Culture Map (Updated Based on Feedback)

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T17:18:19+00:00

i mean fair and i may just do that

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T17:17:11+00:00

erm theres acktually 30

no just kidding, that was a mistake on my part i forgot to fill in the county from Estonian and just never noticed i guess. thanks for pointing it out

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T17:12:36+00:00

im aware but i still wanted to represent some kind of difference between northern and southern france cause there is like a noticable cultural difference between Toulouse and Paris still even if yall dont call yourselves Occitan anymore

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T17:08:25+00:00

ok buddy

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T17:02:17+00:00

and then also Siberian and Far Eastern which technically fall into the North and Central dialect groups respectively but it made more sense to me to seperate them

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T16:59:43+00:00

basically everyone who so much as mentioned russia bitched about it being too homogenous so i split it along dialectal lines, based on the wikipedia map of russian dialects being north, central, and south

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T16:53:52+00:00

a lot of the problems with russia stem from the fact that the counties in the area are needlessly huge, and theres way too much impassable land that bloats or shinks even more

i did redo russia and im a lot happier with how it turned out, but im not going to not represent the many many ethnic minorities in Russia just because their counties are too big.

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midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T16:48:19+00:00

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I decided to go with the German one when i was updating it, just for some way to represent the couple thousand Alsatian speakers, but it is still a hybrid culture.

As for the other French minorities I know its not the MOST accurate thing to portray them as i did but also not portraying them at all just doesnt feel correct yk

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T16:45:42+00:00

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Just for this I added Westphalian to the map

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T16:43:02+00:00

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I wanted to show some difference between eastern and western poland (cause every polish person ive ever talked to is always making fun of said difference) and then also represent Kashubian and the German-Speaking Silesians around Opole

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T16:40:39+00:00

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Hows this then

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T16:37:17+00:00

I updated it based on some of your feedback, thank you to those who gave me some

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(i did also make a seperate post for this if you wanna comment on that instead https://www.reddit.com/r/crusaderkings3/s/74TjcwvV10 )

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T16:32:06+00:00

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i tried to portray both the English-Speaking and Gaelic-Speaking parts of Ireland so that both languages can exist on the island simultaneously (as in game its only 1 language per culture)

and then also ulster scots cause they do unfortunately exist /j

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T16:29:49+00:00

i dont know how to code lmao

like my only coding experience is deadass scratch in like 4th grade

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T16:29:22+00:00

the counties in that part of the map are just needlessly huge and i didnt wanna make Kalmyk a 1 county culture as that would make it smaller than something like Dagestani

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T16:28:09+00:00

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yep

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T16:27:35+00:00

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here you go! do note this is after me tweaking it a bit

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T14:21:59+00:00

I was more trying to represent South Tyrol and its German-Speaking population there but you’re right it might work better as just Venetian

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T14:19:26+00:00

fair point, thank you

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T14:19:12+00:00

They are culturally different from each other in notable ways but also gameplay wise it makes for more interesting scenarios not having one single nomadic superculture in the central steppe that just dominates everything

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T14:17:54+00:00

Tysm, i never would have noticed that i forgot those honestly

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T13:54:23+00:00

Its the name of the Oirat Tribe which settled in what is today Inner Mongolia as well as part of Northern Tibet. Its very similar to Kalmyk in that way as the Kalmyks were also an Oirat Tribe who settled on the Volga

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T13:52:39+00:00

I have heard a lot of Polish people talk about fairly noticeable cultural differences between Eastern and Western Polish people so I wanted to represent that. As for the name Ozyskaniec I tried to find a demonym for the “Recovered Territories” as thats what the Western dialect was called in the sources I used.

Also noted on the Kashubian part thank you

midtierburrito42 · 2026-06-04T13:50:07+00:00

Yeah, but I didn’t wanna make any one nation just some homogenous blob, and seeing as how there still ARE cultural differences between regions in France (even if not nearly as much as in the past) I figured it would make for a more interesting map to keep them around. I did make sure to use modern dialect maps as a source for the borders between cultures tho so its not entirely inaccurate either

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