((I was actually just about to post about the parties, since LostPatriot brought up the reactionaries. I'm going to need each party's ideology and party issues at some point anyway, so why not now. May as well explain what they are for those unfamiliar with Vicky 2. Basically, each party in Vicky 2 has an ideology and five party issues. The ideologies at the start are reactionary, conservative, and liberal, so those are your only choices at first, but you can change later. As for the party issues, each party has a specific stance on trade, the economy, religion, citizenship, and war. I shall list each. I highly recommend anyone picking ones for a party consult
this wiki page. I'll give a brief description of what the five issues mean and list the options for each one, but you should consult that wiki page for descriptions of the various options. Where some of the options are different for our iAAR, I shall point them out.
First is the trade policy. This, quite simply, is a party's approach to trade. The options are only protectionism and free trade. Basically it decides whether you prefer protecting the nation's trade with tariffs to keep out foreign competitors and rely on domestic goods or you prefer open trade where you can freely trade abroad without government restriction. I don't really care what you pick for your party, since any party can prefer any of these. Traditionally the more conservative parties go for protectionism and liberals for free trade, but it's entirely up to you.
Second is the economic policy. This sets how involved the government is in the economy. The options are planned economy, state capitalism, interventionism, and laissez-faire. I highly recommend consulting the wiki for these options, since they decide what a party can and cannot do in-game. For example, a planned economy doesn't allow capitalists to build factories, while laissez-faire prevents the government from doing so. State capitalism and interventionism are somewhere in-between. There are many different things they affect in regards to factories and railroads. For these policies, there will be certain options that different ideologies should have. The only parties with planned economy should be socialist or communist, otherwise any party can pick what it wants. Like with trade, conservative parties should gravitate towards state capitalism and liberals towards laissez-faire, with interventionism suitable for both, but I won't complain if you pick any of these three.
Third is religious policy. This decides how the POPs' various religions are treated. The options are moralism, pluralism, secularism, and atheism. Ideally, no one should be atheist until the 20th Century, unless they're a communist. Here we have a case specific to this iAAR. Usually moralism refers to only accepting the state religion, but we have all Christian religions as ours. Seeing as I'm converting all provinces to Catholic before converting, our POPs should be mostly Catholic in Vicky 2. For the sake of simplicity, we are going to treat Catholic POPs as following the Church of Jesus Christ. For those few that show up as Protestant, Orthodox, etc, we will treat them as Christians who choose not to participate in the CJC. In this case, moralism for us will count as accepting only those Christians who follow the CJC. So if you favour Christians but not heathens, choose this over pluralism. Pluralism will better apply for true religious tolerance, such as accepting Muslims, Hindus, etc. For this policy, you can pick whatever you want, ideally with conservatives veering towards moralism and liberals on either pluralism or secularism.
Fourth is the citizenship policy. This policy decides how accepted and non-accepted cultures are treated, especially in regards to the power of their vote. The options are residency, limited citizenship, and full citizenship. I'll clarify this one due to how it impacts our cultural set-up. Going into Vicky 2, Aragonese/Catalan will be our primary culture, with all our European cultures counted as accepted. For residency, it would mean the Iberian heartland, more specifically those who are Aragonese, would be treated as superior, with the rest of our Europeans having their influence weakened, while non-Europeans would have little to no rights. Limited citizenship treats all accepted cultures as equal to the primary culture and gives limited rights to non-accepted cultures, so this would represent a pro-European focus where they're all treated equal, but non-Europeans are considered lesser. Full citizenship obviously grants equal rights to all citizens, regardless of culture. Keep in mind that going into Vicky 2, the only non-accepted cultures that would be voting would be those in North Africa. Yet again, any party can pick what they want here, with conservative parties leaning towards residency and liberals towards full citizenship, with limited citizenship a good middle ground for both.
Lastly is the war policy. Quite simply this is how the party treats war and the military in general. The options are jingoism, pro military, anti military, and pacifism. This policy will impact how effective our military will be and how much we will be permitted to spend on it. Yet again, I recommend consulting the wiki for specifics. This is another policy I won't be too cranky about what you pick, so choose whatever you want, although I recommend most parties go for either pro military or anti military. Jingoism is very supportive of war and better suited for reactionaries, while pacifism's no war theme is best suited for socialist-type parties aimed at the working class.
Now with that explained, I need the founders of each party to list their party's ideology and five party issues. I see that
@Mach Twelve,
@Firehound15, and
@zenphoenix have all listed issues for their parties, but I'll need a specific ideology as well. Also, feel free to read over my comments just in case you want to make changes to better fit with the iAAR, specifically for the religious and citizenship policies. I'll also need
@LostPatriot,
@05060403, and
@alscon to provide this same info for their parties at some point. You can make it as official or unofficial as you want. All I need at the moment is ideology and party issues.))