Are pops even in the game? I wouldn't be averse to see some sort of demographic pie chart instead of artificial population units.
Maybe a better way to give small nations a fighting chance would be an efficiency bonus based on population size and province numbers. One-province minors in EU3 could be quite effective in research. In real life the contribution to research by small countries like Sweden and Belgium was disproportionally high, too. Maybe that could be the way to go.
I guess we'll see some of that in Vicky. They said that each POP will have it's own literacy level.
Countries like Scandinavia, with a small population, full of highly literate POPs, will probably do extremely well in research.
There needs to be safeguard, though. I wouldn't like to see Netherlands falling behind because the colonies are larger and people in them illiterate.
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