Do not worry, me and my cheating had nothing to do with any of what I'm about to show you, since I'm all the way in Indonesia.
Notice anything(s) wrong? Of course you do, you're not blind.
First let us see the clusterf*** that is the British Isles. "Great" Britain seems to be ill while Leinster somehow got a hold of northern Scotland.
There is one main thing I want to mention, and that is Burgundy. How it has survived I have no idea. I kept looking at Europe whenever I would get to the selection screen and Burgundy was alive and well every single time. Did I mentioned they're allied with France?
Other things are the Portuguese Normandy and France invading Spain. (that last part isn't strange but I haven't seen it happen in my other MEIOU games)
VENICE?!?!? That's all I have to say about them. Papal States seem unusually wholesome since whenever I play in Europe they usually get thrown down by Naples. (who has the annoying habit of giving back their newly conquered papal land after time)
But that isn't the best of what I have to show you. While Venice has a nice COT to fund an army to conquer such lands, this underdog seems to have become rabid.
I don't know how they survived the initial stages, but they seem to be thriving now. Karaman meanwhile has eaten up the Ottomans.