Am I missing something here?

[StatikShocker]

When did we start protectorating Hordes again?

 

[Bragi]

Guess Russia is westernized?

 

[tgungamer]

Buryatia is not a horde.

 

[StatikShocker]

Buryatia is not a horde.

so the restriction is not on the nomad tech group, but the horde government?

Guess Russia is westernized?

No, that wouldn't be relevant anyway.

 

[Pornek]

so the restriction is not on the nomad tech group, but the horde government?

Yep. It kind of says that in the government descripiton aswell.

 

[tgungamer]

so the restriction is not on the nomad tech group, but the horde government?

Correct. In previous patches, they were essentially one and the same but with the intro of the new siberian gov't that is no longer the case.