The Russians colonized it during the EU4 timeline and it is represented in later start dates. Its not really about the resources or even the history, even though those are important aspects. But it is strange that every colonial region gets its own independent tag except for the Alaskan colonial region.
Russian settlers in Alaska never really numbered more than 530 or so, which is hardly significant. Most of the lasting impact from Russian colonization is the fact that many Alaskan Creoles and natives in the area follow Eastern Orthodoxy, coupled with the a few churches, place names like the Russian River in California, and forts such as Fort Ross which is not too far from San Francisco. Furthermore, Alaska was never intended to be a settler colony in the first place: for pretty much the entirety of its history as a Russian colony, it was under the control of the Russian America Company, which was mostly interested in using it to exploit the fur trade with indigenous peoples, not unlike the Hudson Bay Company which had been chartered by the British in much of modern-day Canada, making it much more analogous to a Trade Company than a Colonial Nation. Even the Orthodox church did not show much interest in converting the locals en masse as Christians in other parts of the New World had, which just reinforces how little settler infrastructure and control actually existed in the region before it became an American territory; and that wouldn't happen until 1867, which is too far past the end-date of EUIV for it to be relevant.
Its not really about how well Alaska was developed in history, but the player should be able to make it a settler colony if they choose to like they can with the other colonial tags. If you want to you can settle Alaska and make it well developed in the game, but you can't give them their own tag.
It's not about historicity here, it's about balance. The cascadia colonial region needs a tag and doesn't have one; if you have a better tag for it, that works great. But there's plenty of alt history in game already, so even that doesn't really make much sense. There is no real downside to adding a formable to cascadia, and Alaska seems like the coolest one (imo).
I don't understand your "no one lives there" argument. If we were talking about adding provinces there it would make sense but we are talking about a tag for those provinces. If you can form the tag there are clearly people living there.
and live in the more habitable land, which is represented by not having the arctic province modifier and higher base development.
I just realized that this argument is highly pointless and not worth either of our time. Cheers, have a nice day!I don't understand your obsession with Alaska because "we need a tag" argument. I already said if we need a tag in the Cascadia region just make a fictional tag, because that's what an Alaska tag would be too, or even better, in my opinion, make Colombia. Also the argument about "people live there in game so we should be able to form it", that's a problem the game has right now with certain parts of the world being colonizable when frankly for EU IV's time those places were horrible to live in. To this day places like Labrador in Canada, which is colonizable in game, barely anyone lived there before and still to this day it's a very small population. And development doesn't represent population and unless you're proposing that frozen Alaska in 1527 or whatever is going to develop industrialization before anyone else and out of nothing then the population is going to be quite small. Last thing I'll say on this is why the hell would you even want a state in Alaska, you'd have no development and horrible resources, since EU IV doesn't represent oil. You'd move south, to the region of Colombia
When suggesting a new tag it needs to rather be a country that did exist during the time frame or shortly after or a regional tag that unites a culture group. Examples of post-colonial nation formables that work would be Acadia, Cuba, Yucatan or Florida to name a few.
Why not Oregon? As in old-timey "Oregon Country" rather than the State of Oregon. That way, you wouldn't end up with Columbia/Colombia in the game, but you'd have a tag that would pretty much represent the same thing.
Geography, most likely. All of the Americas are colonial. Its and abstraction for gameplay balance purposes. It also keeps the anti-bordergore people happy.
