True. But I agree with @Trajan72 in that the name conventions seem sadly mixed for countries (and provinces?): sometimes the proper (?) tribal ending, say Cornovii, Parisi, Eburaces, and sometimes the more improper (?) 'civilised' -a at the end, such as in Scandinavia: Herulia, Rugia, Sueonia, Sarmatia. I'd prefer all tribes to be named as tribes.
Mehh,,
When the Dev Diary says:
The Republic of Rome has TWO Consuls.
I will buy it!....
Well!
More likely it'll be in whatever free patch accompanies a government and governance DLC.
For me its more like a Roa without the emperors robe.
Yeah!
I agree that a DLC or patch including Japan is unlikely. However, Japan technically wasn't empty in 303 BC/BCE. That's around the start (or a few centuries after the start, depending on the scholar) of the Yayoi period, where a social hierarchy began to form and agriculture became widespread throughout the main islands. Unless Paradox goes by the Kojiki/Nihon Shoki and uses the emperors in them (would be fairly ahistorical), the only other option would be to incorporate the various villages and clans that would consolidate into the early centuries AD/CE. I'd think that would be far more trouble than it was worth, especially since Japan didn't have a significant role in the world during the game's time period.
Do you even try to make sense?
Maybe for a mod, but that would definitely be a cheap solution vanilla, for a game from a renowned developer. So what if "the consuls X&Y" die mid-term: both of them die? One can't die without the other?
Just took a look at the map Johan posted and it looks like there are provinces there! Could it indicate some form of minor colonization feature?
