Now please explain how the revolution spread through the benighted villages of Russia, where the serfs still harness their wives to the plough, the priest gives the Mass by rote, and the single Bible that rests in the village church is encrusted with jewels and silver because it's much too holy to be actually opened?
Oh, that's easy; Russia is a horrible place to live, and it's the government's fault.
We're speeding towards the end of EU4; we managed 46 years last session, and only have 16 left until we convert to Vicky. Egypt's player had to take an extended leave of absence, tho hopefully they will return; unfortunately for them they're missing the lead-up to conversion, but fortunately for them conversion will impose a break of 2 weeks anyway.
The main excitement of the session for me was a revolutionary war in the Americas; four of my colonies, including my most populous colony of New Orkney, declared at once. Thankfully the colonial loyalists were able to overwhelm them, with barely any help from Britain, and order was restored.
Sadly, I will lose many of these colonies anyway with the conversion, but as a hegemon I can't afford to be losing wars, and so dependent they shall remain, for now.
Speaking of colonies, and with the end of the game in sight, let's take a tour.
Great Britain is the major colonial power, with 3335 own development and 5694 in subject development (which also counts Pueblo and Taungu). In North America, British rule stretches from Cape Breton (in modern-day Nova Scotia) to Port Friendship (modern-day San Francisco), roughly the modern continental United States plus some of southern Canada and the northern half of Mexico (tho minus the Pacific Northwest). Just over half of the tobacco grown globally comes from the British colonies in North America, and another 10% comes from their colonies in South America. Nicotine is the British drug of choice, renowned for its ability to sharpen one's reflexes and quicken the mind.
Originally more scattered throughout South America, the current British colonies there are mostly along one horizontal band, with Brazil and New Derby (which is bisected by New Arborea) on the Atlantic coast and Peru and Bolivia on the Pacific coast.
Outside the Americas, Britain has much less representation; a single province on the coast of Africa, Bengal and Burma (half held directly, and half held by the vassal Taungu), and the eastern half of Australia.
Ar-Adunaim, with 1624 own development and 2534 subject development, is the second colonial power (measured by their development, at least). With four CNs in the northeastern bit of Canada, divided by treaty with Britain three hundred years ago and adhered to faithfully, three in central America (with the two Mexican CNs the largest by dev, and also containing a fair amount of gold), and two in Southern America, the Norse faith is spread throughout the new world. Rather than CNs in the Caribbean, the pirate republic keeps islands to be its own bases, allowing easy raiding of the colonies there. [Britain too has some directly held Caribbean islands, mostly for the ability to have more world ports.]
Thuringia, with 4449 own development and 2386 subject development, has major colonies in the Caribbean (controlling both Cuba and Hispaniola), as well as the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. It also has Canadian colonies that stretch from sea to sea, just barely, and a bit of south America. (The border march of Kievan Rus also bumps up this subject total.) Thuringia also holds the western coast of India, tho less of it than Georgia does, and some of the African coast. 60% of the world's chocolate is grown in New Anhalt, and Thuringian chocolate is known worldwide as a luxurious delight of unrivalled quality, especially the varieties mixed with spices from their Deccan plantations.
Revolutionary Grand Sicily, with 2305 own development and 1926 subject development, was a latecomer to the colonial game who nevertheless managed to seize about half of South America. Coffee is not quite the distinctive export of the region, as it's also grown in Arabia, the Ethiopian highlands, and the British bit of Mexico, and besides that most of the South American coffee is grown in the patchwork north, where many different powers have a single colony. Nevertheless, Sicilian coffee service is well-ranked throughout Europe, and the coffeehouse culture may have contributed to their turn to the revolutionary.
The Tokugawa Shogunate, with 2588 own development and 1042 subject development, has three colonies on the western coast, and a wide array of Pacific islands, mostly owning the northern Pacific and its coast. A land of tea and silk, Japan's cultural reputation is more tied with that of the Orient as a whole than the new products it has brought to the global market through colonialism.
Of course, this list was ranked by Subject Development, and the most impressive country according to the map doesn't show up. Revolutionary Benelux directly holds all of South Africa, all of eastern India, and much of the remaining African coast, with only two tiny colonial nations on the northern tip of South America. Spice, cotton, silk, gems, and slaves make it so that there is not a Dutch specialty; instead, they are renowned for being able to buy and sell anything, and to craftily work their way to the top of wherever they land.
