July vacations may have impaired our ability to access the saves but the game was still running and now we're back in year 7187!
Spain and Rajputana finally decided they had no need for a buffer state between so they stopped guaranteeing Austria who had to abandon its possessions in Russia.
Vijayanagar seized that opportunity to claim their territory in Manchuria and Eastern Siberia and annexed Korea while it was at it.
Ethopia launched a grand campagin to unite Africa and has made some decent progress, having mostly kicked Portugal out and even took some provinces from mighty Spain.
On the other side of the world, the USA - Paraguay alliance have concluded that if they're so far in future, they must be playing Stellaris and so took the role of the Sleeping Fallen Empire.
True to the legend of katanas being overpowered and making everyone afraid of invading its archipelago, Japan is still fiercely independent, having repulsed a recent assault from Vijayanagar with its serious military advantage:
They still had to conced the world's best general title to Portugal who is clearly not to be messed with:
On the economic side, the world keeps getting more productive and richer by the century without showing any sign of resource shortage on the horizon.
Japan even manages to have the richest trade region in terms of local riches:
Still signs of overpopulation are starting to show in some provinces of Nippon...
Looking at the small guys, you'd be thrilled to know that even if the Mamluks had to concede come possessions in the Mediterranean they are still holding firm in the Pacific.
Maybe filling a bit homesick some time, they decided to breed camels on Wake Island...
Back in Europe, Greece managed to become free and claimed Crete as its capital.
Allied with both Spain and Rajputana, they are now planning an offensive to conquer Cyprus which is presently owned by Ethiopia.
And finally for those who wondered, of course in the 7th millenia the Habsburgs are still sitting on the throne of Austria!