The last game held a lot of potential and is generally up-to-date, so I'll include the stats for that here just to make it easier. rules are here, although both of these are getting updated. As of right now, those updates will look something like this:
-Some rework of colonial mechanics, mostly as related to trade companies, but also give colonies more flavor. I plan on adding a rating for the autonomy of a colony, which will be tied in to how many credits it earns you as a whole.
-Better/more listings for native powers in the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere. Along these lines, I might include small amounts of non-rebel uh, rebel groups, to influence events and encourage more interesting stuff domestically. Think like various alliances of the Highlanders in Scotland, or important nobles elsewhere, etc.
-Court politics (are the best don't @ me). Namely in two forms, an Influence rating that functions alongside the Popularity one, representing how much sway you really have over your government. Doing things that please the upper crust of your society will have a somewhat higher chance of success than the opposite. Secondly, since this is the time of byzantine alliances, I'll also list what alliances player nations have, alongside a Build Ties action that provides more support/pisses less people off during actions done in favor of those ties, with the inverse being true.
-I will probably make Seren come up with naval stuff. Also, piracy will be a thing.
Okay, so there you have it. Huojin will be co-GMing in an as of yet unspecified capacity but more or less doing the same shit I did for 1985. Probably not a music thread, I guess, unless my dude fucks with some baroque. We're doing signups live, preferences style. List three in order.
Nations most beneficial to have:
Kingdom of Great Britain
Kingdom of France
Kingdom of Spain
Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
Habsburg Monarchy
Kingdom of Prussia
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Kingdom of Sweden
Tsardom of Russia
Sublime Ottoman State
Denmark-Norway
Mughal Empire
Kingdom of Portugal
Other interesting nations:
Electorate of Bavaria
Iroquois Confederacy
Duchy of Savoy
Most Serene Republic of Venice
The Expansive Realm of Iran
Empire of Great Qing
Maratha Confederacy
Alaouite Dynasty (Morocco)
If you want to go for another nation, feel free to claim it (if it's in the stats, at least). No promises for anything just yet.

Europe
*Cast into suspicion for his part in secret armistice negotiations with France leading to the Treaty of Utrecht and the end of the War of Spanish Succession, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, flees Great Britain for France. Falling in with the Stuart Pretenders, he comes secretary of state to James Edward Stuart, would-be king.
*For this act of treason, Bolingbroke is impeached by Parliament.
*A Jacobite mob sacks two chapels in the north of England.
*Ulrika Eleonora, Princess of Sweden and sister to the present King, marries Frederick, heir to the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. The marriage begins to engender questions of relating to the line of succession, as Charles XII remains childless, with his nephew Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, the presently assumed heir.
*However more pressing issues than succession face Sweden at present, with the Great Northern War continuing to rage. The Danish Navy scores a victory against their Swedish counterparts in the Fehmarn Belt, while Russian forces continue to occupy the Swedish Baltic territories and much of the Finnish coast. Meanwhile the city of Stralsund remains under close siege, and in yet more dire news, King George I of Great Britain, in his capacity as Elector of Hanover, has signed an alliance with the Kingdom of Prussia directed against Sweden. Although Prussia remains neutral for the time being, many being to speculate it may soon enter the war.
*With war declared by the Ottomans in late December against Venice, the Turks launch a rapid assault against the underprepared Venetians. Undermanned, unable to defend their many fortifications, and isolated from the local Greek populace, the Venetian forces in Morea find themselves quickly assailed by a vast Ottoman army. Acrocorinth surrenders quickly (though its quick collapse is marred by the massacre or enslavement of most of the garrison and civilian populace), leaving the way into the Peloponnese open. They advance towards the centre of Venetian power in Morea, the city of Nafplion.
*Prompting a great stirring throughout France and indeed all of Europe, a Persian embassy arrives in Paris at the court of Louis XIV. Accompanied by a grand entourage and bearing splendid gifts, Mohammed Reza Beg begins conducting negotiations relating to trade and friendship between the Safavid Empire and France.
The Americas
*After fighting since 1711, the Tuscarora natives and their allies admit their defeat in the face of the colonial forces of the Carolinas colonies. Many of their allies move inland, away from the increasingly heavily settled coasts, whilst the Tuscarora themselves primarily move north to the Province of New York, settling amongst the Iroquois.
*Having relied heavily on native allies to form the bulk of the armies used to defeat the Tuscarora, new exposure and ties are built between the British colonists and many of their native neighbours. However this both for good and for ill, as competition between settlers and natives over vital resources like deer and slaves bring them increasingly into conflict.
*Fighting flares up anew as the Yamasee peoples, the closest and most powerful allies of the British in the Carolinas (and also the most exposed to the vagaries of the colonists) turn against them - joined by most tribes in the region, including almost all of those who had allied with the British against the Tuscarora.
*New France re-establishes its presence on the Straits of Mackinac, building Fort Michilimackinac.
*With fighting in North America as part of Queen Anne’s War well and truly concluded, the British build a new fort, Fort George, in Brunswick, Maine. Near the boundary of disputed land between France and Britain, it proves more than a little provocative.
Asia
*The Mughal-Sikh Wars continue to rage, as the Mughals lay siege to the small fortress of Gurdas Nangal.
King: George I (scorpion)
Government: Constitutional Monarchy (Moderate Crown Authority, Moderate Nobility, Low Commons)
Popularity: Somewhat Low
Units: 8/8 [-40 maintenance]
Reserves: 18
Fleets: 12/12 [-60 maintenance]
Economy: +150
Debt: 700
Income: +210 [+5 Kingdom of Ireland, +20 Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, +15 North American Furs, +10 North American Agriculture, +10 Caribbean Sugar, +10 Indian Trade Posts, +50 Trade, -10 Gold Coast Forts, -35 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: Yamasee War, Nonconformist Unrest in New York, Anti-Hanoverian Unrest
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Yamasee and allies
Units: 2
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Kingdom of Ireland (Personal Union)
Government: Constitutional Monarchy (High Crown Authority, Moderate Nobility, Low Commons)
Stability: 2
Units: 2/2 [-20 maintenance]
Reserves: 2
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: Catholic Unrest, Protestant Ascendancy, Anti-Hanoverian Unrest
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Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Personal Union)
Government: Principality (Moderate Crown Authority, Moderate Nobility, Low Commons)
Stability: 4
Units: 2/4 [-10, 2 in Swedish Pomerania, -20 maintenance]
Reserves: 3
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: Great Northern War
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British East India Company
Autonomy: High
Profitability: 3
Units: 3
Fleets: 2
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Hudson’s Bay Company
Autonomy: Moderate
Profitability: 3
Units: 1
Fleets: 0
Kingdom of France
King: Louis XIV (Serenissima)
Government: Absolute Monarchy (Very High Crown Authority, High Nobility, Very Low Commons)
Popularity: Moderate
Units: 24/24 [-120 maintenance]
Reserves: 54
Fleets: 10/10 [-50 maintenance]
Economy: +290
Debt: 800
Income: +175 [+20 French Shore Fishing, +20 North American Furs, +20 Caribbean Sugar, +5 Indian Trade Posts, +35 Trade, -5 Ivory Coast Forts, -40 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: Camisard Unrest, Fox War
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Fox Peoples
Units: 1
==
French East India Company
Autonomy: Somewhat Low
Profitability: 2
Units: 2
Fleets: 2
Kingdom of Spain
King: Philip V (Doctor of Oblivion)
Government: Absolute Monarchy (High Crown Authority, Moderate Nobility, Low Commons)
Popularity: Moderate
Units: 10/10 [-50 maintenance]
Reserves: 14
Fleets: 3/3 [-15 maintenance]
Economy: +80
Debt: 1000
Income: +140 [+20 New Spain Mining, +15 New Grenada Mining, +30 Peruvian Mining, +20 New Spain Dyes, +10 Philippine Trade, +15 Caribbean Sugar, +60 Trade, -50 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: Indigenous American Unrest
Kingdom of Portugal
King: John V
Government: Absolute Monarchy (High Crown Authority, Somewhat High Nobility, Low Commons)
Popularity: Somewhat High
Units: 6/6 [-30 maintenance]
Reserves: 16
Fleets: 2/2 [-10 maintenance]
Economy: +75
Debt: 200
Income: +100 [+15 Brazilian Mining, +10 Brazilian Sugar, +10 Indian Trade Posts, +40 Trade, -10 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: Indigenous American Unrest
Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
Grand Pensioner: Anthonie Heinsius (bomie)
Government: Confederative Republic (Very Low State Authority, High Nobility, Moderate Commons)
Popularity: Low
Units: 4/4 [-20 maintenance]
Reserves: 10
Fleets: 8/8 [-40 maintenance]
Economy: +100
Debt: 1000
Income: +100 [+5 Amsterdam Stock Market, +10 Cape Route, +10 Indian Trade Posts, +25 East Indian Spices, +5 Caribbean Sugar, +55 Trade, -50 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: Dutch-Kandian Tensions
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Dutch East India Company
Autonomy: Very High
Profitability: 4
Units: 5
Fleets: 6
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Dutch West India Company
Autonomy: Somewhat High
Profitability: 2
Units: 2
Fleets: 2
Habsburg Monarchy
Emperor: Charles VI (Luc)
Government: Composite Feudal Monarchy (High Crown Authority, High Nobility, Very Low Commons)
Popularity: Moderate
Units: 18/18 [-90 maintenance]
Reserves: 30
Fleets: 1 [-5 maintenance]
Economy: +105
Debt: 600
Income: +190 [+5 Adriatic Trade, +10 Neapolitan Taxation, +5 Sardinian Taxation, +10 Netherlands Taxation, +5 Danube Tariffs, +35 Trade, +10 HRE Taxation, -30 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: Ottoman-Austrian Tensions
Kingdom of Prussia
King: Frederick William I (Smyg)
Government: Absolute Monarchy (High Crown Authority, Moderate Nobility, Low Commons)
Popularity: Moderate
Units: 8/8 [-40 maintenance]
Reserves: 10
Fleets: 0
Economy: +150
Debt: 400
Income: +105 [+20 Trade, -5 Gold Coast Forts, -20 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: None
Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Personal Union with Saxony)
King/Grand Duke: Augustus II (Maddox)
Government: Elective Monarchy (Somewhat Low Crown Authority, Somewhat High Nobility, Somewhat Low Commons)
Popularity: Somewhat Low
Units: 10/14 [-20, 4 in Swedish Pomerania, -70 maintenance]
Reserves: 8
Fleets: 2/2 [-10 maintenance]
Economy: +120
Debt: 300
Income: +70 [+35 Trade, -15 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: Great Northern War, Restless Nobles
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Electorate of Saxony (Personal Union with Poland-Lithuania)
Prince-Elector: Augustus II
Government: Principality (Moderate Crown Authority, Moderate Nobility, Low Commons)
Popularity: Somewhat Low
Units: 2/4 [-10, 2 in Swedish Pomerania, -20 maintenance]
Reserves: 4
Fleets: 0
Economy: +90
Debt: 200
Income: +65 [+15 Trade, -10 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: Great Northern War
Kingdom of Sweden
King: Charles XII (Gesar)
Government: Absolute Monarchy (High Crown Authority, Moderate Nobility, Low Commons)
Popularity: Moderate
Units: 6/16 [-50, 6 in Swedish Pomerania, 4 in Swedish Finland, -80 maintenance]
Reserves: 12
Fleets: 4/4 [-20 maintenance]
Economy: +140
Debt: 200
Income: +35 [+10 Swedish Furs, +10 Baltic Trade, +35 Trade, -10 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: Great Northern War
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Holstein-Gottorp (minor German ally)
Units: 4 in Swedish Pomerania
Tsardom of Russia
Tsar: Peter I (Cephal)
Government: Absolute Monarchy (Very High Crown Authority, Moderate Nobility, Very Low Commons)
Popularity: Somewhat High
Units: 10/26 [-80, 4 in Swedish Pomerania, 6 in Swedish Baltic, 6 in Swedish Finland, -130 maintenance]
Reserves: 18
Fleets: 2/2 [-10 maintenance]
Economy: +180
Debt: 0
Income: +15 [+15 Russian Furs, +40 Trade]
Conflicts: Great Northern War
Sublime Ottoman State
Sultan: Ahmed III (Flamelord)
Government: Absolute Monarchy (Very High Crown Authority, Moderate Nobility, Somewhat Low Commons)
Popularity: Somewhat High
Units: 10/18 [-40, 8 in Morea, -90 maintenance]
Reserves: 30
Fleets: 6/6 [-30 maintenance]
Economy: +180
Debt: 300
Income: +110 [+10 Black Sea Trade, +15 Turkish Straits Control, +20 Imperial Tribute, +5 Minority Taxation, +5 Barbary Tribute, +50 Trade, -15 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: Ottoman-Safavid Tensions, Ottoman-Austrian Tensions, Ottoman-Venetian War
Kingdom of Denmark (Personal Union with Norway)
King: Frederick IV (DutchGuy)
Government: Absolute Monarchy (Somewhat High Crown Authority, Moderate Nobility, Low Commons)
Popularity:
Units: 2/4 [-10, 2 in Swedish Pomerania, -20 maintenance]
Reserves: 4
Fleets: 1/1 [-5 maintenance]
Economy: +70
Debt: 500
Income: +60 [+50 Kingdom of Norway, +15 Sound Dues, +5 Caribbean Sugar, +30 Trade, -5 Gold Coast Forts, -25 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: Great Northern War
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Kingdom of Norway (Personal Union)
Government: Absolute Monarchy (Somewhat High Crown Authority, Somewhat High Nobility, Low Commons)
Stability: 5
Units: 1/3 [-10, 1 in Swedish Pomerania, 1 in Holstein-Gottorp, -15 maintenance]
Reserves: 3
Fleets: 4/4 [-20 maintenance]
Conflicts: Great Northern War
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Danish East India Company
Autonomy: Somewhat High
Profitability: 3
Units: 1
Fleets: 1
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Danish West India Company
Autonomy: Somewhat High
Profitability: 3
Units: 1
Fleets: 1
Duchy of Savoy
Duke: Victor Amadeus II (TRC)
Government: Absolute Monarchy (High Crown Authority, Moderate Nobility, Low Commons)
Popularity: Moderate
Units: 3/3 [-15 maintenance]
Reserves: 3
Fleets: 2/2 [-10 maintenance]
Economy: +60
Debt: 300
Income: +70 [+40 Kingdom of Sicily, +25 Trade, -15 Debt Interest]
Conflicts: None
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Kingdom of Sicily (Personal Union)
Government: Absolute Monarchy (High Crown Authority, Moderate Nobility, Low Commons)
Stability: 2
Units: 2/2 [-10 maintenance]
Reserves: 2
Fleets: 1 [-5 maintenance]
Conflicts: None
=Europe=
Electorate of Bavaria
Government: Principality
Stability: 4
Units: 6
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None
Republic of Genoa
Government: Oligarchic Republic
Stability: 4
Units: 4
Fleets: 3
Conflicts: None
Most Serene Republic of Venice
Government: Oligarchic Republic
Stability: 4
Units: 14, 4 in Morea
Fleets: 2
Conflicts: Ottoman-Venetian War
Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Government: Duchy
Stability: 5
Units: 8
Fleets: 1
Conflicts: None
Most Serene Republic of Lucca
Government: Oligarchic Republic
Stability: 5
Units: 1
Fleets: 1
Conflicts: None
States of the Church (incl. Comtat Venaissin)
Government: Theocracy
Stability: 3
Units: 3
Fleets: 1
Conflicts: None
Duchy of Modena and Reggio
Government: Duchy
Stability: 4
Units: 1
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None
Duchy of Parma
Government: Duchy
Stability: 3
Units: 2
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None
Principality of Wallachia (Tributary of the Ottomans)
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 3
Units: 3
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None
Principality of Moldavia (Tributary of the Ottomans)
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 3
Units: 3
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None
=Asia=
Yaruba Imamate
Government: Theocratic Monarchy
Stability: 3
Units: 5
Fleets: 3
Conflicts: None
Safavid Dynasty
Government: Theocratic Monarchy
Stability: 2
Units: 20
Fleets: 2
Conflicts: Ottoman-Safavid Tensions, Hotaki Dynasty Rebellion
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Hotaki Dynasty
Units: 10
Malla Dynasty
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability:
Units: 2
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None
Mughal Empire
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 2
Units: 50
Fleets: 3
Conflicts: Mughal-Maratha Conflct, Mughal-Sikh Wars
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Sikh Rebellion
Units: 8
Maratha Kingdom
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 3
Units: 30
Fleets: 3
Conflicts: Mughal-Maratha Conflict
Kingdom of Mysore
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 4
Units: 8
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: Mughal-Maratha Conflict
Madurai Nayak Kingdom (Mughal Tributary)
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 2
Units: 2
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: Mughal-Maratha Conflict
Chitradurga Nayaka Kingdom (Mughal Tributary, Maratha Ally)
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 3
Units: 4
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None
Kingdom of Kandy
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 2
Units: 4
Fleets: 1
Conflicts: Dutch-Kandian Tensions
Keladi Nayaka Kingdom
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 4
Units: 10
Fleets: 1
Conflicts: None
Bundelkhand Kingdom
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 3
Units: 8
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: Mughal-Maratha Conflict
Khoshut Khanate
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 2
Units: 4
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None
Dzungar Khanate
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 2
Units: 8
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: Dzungar-Qing Wars
Qing Dynasty
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 4
Units: 120
Fleets: 25
Conflicts: Dzungar-Qing Wars
Tokugawa Shogunate
Government: Feudal Stratocracy
Stability: 5
Units: 20
Fleets: 5
Conflicts: Sakoku
Great Joseon State
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 4
Units: 10
Fleets: 2
Conflicts: None
Ryukyu Kingdom
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 4
Units: 2
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: Japan-China Dual Tributary Relations
Dai Viet
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 2
Units: 10
Fleets: 1
Conflicts: Internal Divisions
Kingdom of Champasak
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 3
Units: 2
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None
Kingdom of Vientiane
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 3
Units: 2
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None
Kingdom of Luang Phrabang
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 3
Units: 2
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None
Khmer Kingdom
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 2
Units: 3
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None
Ayutthaya Kingdom
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 4
Units: 12
Fleets: 2
Conflicts: None
Toungoo Dynasty (Burma)
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 3
Units: 10
Fleets: 1
Conflicts: None
Bruneian Empire
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 3
Units: 7
Fleets: 1
Conflicts: None
Sultanate of Sulu
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 4
Units: 9
Fleets: 1
Conflicts: Tensions with Spanish Philippines
=Africa=
Alaouite Dynasty (Morocco)
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Stability: 4
Units: 10
Fleets: 1
Conflicts: None
Kingdom of Kongo
Government: Tribal Monarchy
Stability: 3
Units: 6
Fleets: 0
Conflicts: None[/quote]