After much heartache and heavy cost, the brave warriors of the Union of Social Democratic Tribes of Oceania have bought their freedom from the Perfidious English, liberated their comrades in Polynesia and Australia, and created a land where everyone from Freed American slaves to Flemish Refugees to Chinese Socialists can join together. Soon the Parliament will be dissolved in favour of a Council Republic.
Two problems remain
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Taking most of Australia somewhat suddenly means that now I have tanked my economy and standard of living having to provide Public Healthcare and Education to a few million starving semi-literate anglos.
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The Fucking French! HAAATTTTTEE!
It is a game about politics, trade, and productive chains.
not really spoilers, just saving space
You, as the player, are "The Spirit of the nation" not playing as a "character" like say CKIII.
Your goal is to take any country on the map and... do something with it; it really depends on the material context of the country.
Much of what you are doing is building, expanding, and managing the inputs/outputs of your productive facilities, balancing the wishes and needs of the population of your country, and interacting with the other powers of the world through diplomacy. The "Goal" of the game is whatever you want to do with no real "Victory" like in say Civilization. You just have 100 years to manage a country in the Victorian era, achieving personal goals by creating conducive environments and finding ways to cajole pops into doing what you want.
Want to drive back the Yankees as the Oklahoma territory?
Regional dominance as Haiti?
Destruction of the *nglo empire?
Indian liberation?
Karl Marx showing up in Polynesia and building World Communism from the Pacific?
Well you can do any of these things so long as the conditions are right.