I'm going to turn the Swedish region of Götaland into a country (because that's where I live).
The first thing you have to do is come up with a tag for your country. Tags are 3-letter, well, tags, used by the game to identify your country. To see what tags are taken, go to the history\countries\ folder and have a look. Logically I have decided to use the tag GOT.
Now, to create our country we are going to have to create new files and tweak existing files. First file we are going to edit is in the \common\ folder and is simply called countries.txt. In it, tags are linked to country files. Simply add a line below "# Common Great Powers" (Götaland is destined to become a Great Power 
), like so:
Code:
GOT = "countries/Gotaland.txt"
Do NOT overwrite the original file. This will lead to general unpleasantness. Create a folder on your desktop called common and put your modified countries.txt file there.
Now that we have given our new country a tag, we have to create the country file to go with it. Go to \common\countries\ and look up a country that is similar to yours. To make this easier, we are going to work on an existing country file. I've chosen Sweden. Rename it to whatever you put in countries.txt (case sensitive). For now, that's all we are going to do with the country file. Create a subfolder in your new common folder, name the folder countries, then move the new country file there.
Next we have to give our country a flag. You may have noticed that all countries in Victoria 2 have five different flags. The five flag types are:
<TAG>
<TAG>_communist
<TAG>_fascist
<TAG>_monarchy
<TAG>_republic
To keep it nice and easy, we are going to create just one flag and use it for all five government types. Once you have created your flag, copy it four times and rename them. Flags have to be 93 pixels wide and 64 pixels high, and in Targa (.tga) format. You will need something more sophisticated than Paint for this part. If you do not have a graphics editor, try Paint.net.
Here's the flag I have created:
Beautiful ain't it? Anyway, moving on. Create a folder called gfx, and in it, a subfolder called flags. Move the flags you created to the flags subfolder.
Next, go to the history\countries\ folder. Like before we are going to copy an existing file and simply rename it. I've taken Swedens file (SWE - Sweden) and renamed it GOT - Gotaland. It's case sensitive and has to exactly match what you put in the countries.txt file. Create a folder called history and a subfolder called countries. Move your country history file there.
Open up your new country history file. Mine looks like this:
Code:
capital = 322
primary_culture = swedish
culture = finnish
culture = norwegian
culture = sami
religion = protestant
government = hms_government
plurality = 0.0
nationalvalue = nv_order
literacy = 0.8
civilized = yes
prestige = 15
# Political reforms
slavery = no_slavery
upper_house_composition = state_equal_weight
vote_franschise = landed_voting
public_meetings = yes_meeting
press_rights = state_press
trade_unions = no_trade_unions
voting_system = first_past_the_post
political_parties = non_secret_ballots
# Social Reforms
wage_reform = no_minimum_wage
work_hours = no_work_hour_limit
safety_regulations = no_safety
health_care = no_health_care
unemployment_subsidies = no_subsidies
pensions = no_pensions
ruling_party = SWE_conservative
last_election = 1833.1.1
upper_house = {
fascist = 0
liberal = 35
conservative = 60
reactionary = 5
anarcho_liberal = 0
socialist = 0
communist = 0
}
#Technologies
post_napoleonic_thought = 1
flintlock_rifles = 1
bronze_muzzle_loaded_artillery = 1
military_staff_system = 1
army_command_principle = 1
post_nelsonian_thought = 1
clipper_design = 1
naval_design_bureaus = 1
alphabetic_flag_signaling = 1
the_command_principle = 1
classicism_n_early_romanticism = 1
late_enlightenment_philosophy = 1
malthusian_thought = 1
enlightenment_thought = 1
introspectionism = 1
private_banks = 1
no_standard = 1
early_classical_theory_and_critique = 1
freedom_of_trade = 1
guild_based_production = 1
water_wheel_power = 1
publishing_industry = 1
mechanized_mining = 1
basic_chemistry = 1
#Inventions
#corvettes = yes
# Starting Consciousness
consciousness = 2
nonstate_consciousness = 0
schools = industrial_tech_school
oob = "SWE_oob.txt"
The country history file is used when your new country revolts or appears on the map. You only really have to change two things for now:
Code:
capital = 322
oob = "SWE_oob.txt"
The capital of my nation can't be Stockholm as it won't belong to my country, so I've gone ahead and changed that to my home town of Borås. The "oob = "SWE_oob.txt" refers to the order of battle file. This file contains the starting armies, navies and leaders for your country. Great Powers also have their initial diplomatic relations listed in their OOB files.
Those two lines now read like this:
Code:
capital = 330
oob = "GOT_oob.txt"
To find the right province number for your capital, go to the history\provinces\ folder and look around.
Next we are going to create an OOB file for our country. Unless you're using an advanced text editor such as Notepad++ some of the OOB files might have garbled formatting. One OOB that has proper formatting is ANH_oob.txt. It's perfect for our purposes. Go ahead and open that up.
The first bit sets Anhalts relation to Prussia to 125. Ignore this part and simply remove it. What we are interested in is creating a standing army for our new nation. I'm going to keep it simple and have Gotalands starting army consist of just one brigade. Like this:
Code:
army = {
name = "Götalands Armée"
location = 330
regiment = {
name= "Borås Brigad"
type = infantry
home = 330
}
}
"location" determines where your standing army ends up in the game. "home" ties the brigade (regiment) to a POP in that province. I've placed my army in Borås and the brigade is now tied to th soldier POP in Borås. Create a new subfolder called units in your history folder, and move the OOB file there.
Now we're going to add some text. Go to Victoria 2\localisation\ and copy text.csv. Create your own localisation folder and put the new text.csv there. You can open and edit this file in notepad, but unless you have the patience of a god I recommend using Notepad++.
Hit CTRL-F and look up REB. You should see this:
Code:
REB;Rebels;Partisans;Partisanen;;Partisanos;;;;;;;;;x
This gives the REBel tag a name, first in English then in other languages. You have to get this bit just right. Add a new line, type in
Code:
GOT;Götaland;Götaland;Götaland;;Götaland;;;;;;;;;x
Scroll down a little bit and you'll find a new list of tags labelled TAG_ADJ. This is used to describe your citizens throughout the game (e.g Latvian rebels, French soldiers). Add a new line:
Code:
GOT_ADJ;Geat;Geat;Geat;;Geat;;;;;;;;;x
With that file saved, we're done with part 1. Your new country is not in the game yet, but it will be soon.
Originally Posted by TheLand
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