Currently, they use German ideas, and while the ultimate goal may well be to give them their own unique idea set, in the interim, Dutch ideas might make a fair bit more sense.
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Dutch Ideas for Flanders and Brabant
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They used to have their own idea set but when they split up burgundy they took then out for some reason.
Theocracies get their special idea set when they actually are theocracies, but not if they change to a different government type, which can happen in several ways, so it definitely does matter what ideas a nation that is usually a theocracy has for those times when it stops being a theocracy.
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No.
We have to go the the basis of the word Netherlands for this.
Netherlands=Low countries. For some reason the people there are Dutch. So, Dutch ideas.
Belgium was made in 1839 by some pissed off Walloons.
TL: DR: Flanders is glorious Dutch übermensch, not Belgian untermensch.
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For Flanders and Friesland it's quite logical. However, the inland Dutch states were not sea-oriented, and therefore the Dutch ideas make little sense for them. They should either get a different idea set or keep their current ideas
... There are inland Dutch states? (Brabant was and still is super-dependant on its seaports, doesn't count.)
Dutch people are basically sea-Germans.
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Yes. The main provinces of the Republic were Holland, Friesland and Zeeland. Flanders and Brabant (provided Brabant gets the province of Antwerp) were indeed also sea-oriented, but after the Dutch blockaded the Schelde trade died there. The other 'gewesten' in the Republic were the 'landgewesten', who did not profit from Dutch trade and colonies, and were not involved in seafaring either. They mainly served as a line of defense (especially the fortress of Maastricht)
The netherlands should really get neatherlands ideas and all other dutch should get dutch ideas (except any that already have unique ideas).
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