Per someone's suggestion, I decided to pick up my Scandinavia game again. I've managed to enter a Grand Alliance with Great Britain (Greatly Diminished) France, Middle-Eastern Surprise Powerhouse Georgia, and The Incredible Shrinking Ukraine against the Continent-Spanning Holy Roman Empire and Poor Bullied Russia. It's resulted in a few epic wars already. Also, here's an update on Georgia's Status as a world power:
Though it has lost many of its cores in Russia, Georgia has cored a good chunk of Iraq. More recently, Georgia is getting slowly dismantled by a resurgeant Persia and Russia, who acts like a bully in the East, but gets trashed by the West. Sounds about right.
This has also been the game for ridiculous Personal Unions such as Morea over Poland, Wales over France, and now, my favorite of all, The Cypriot-Imperial Union under Cyprus's Noble Republic.
Seriously, the Holy Roman Empire, which stretches from Estonia to Southern Italy and from the Balkans to the Netherlands, was ruled for a generation by the republicans from Cyprus.
And lastly, on a completely unrelated note, here is a better shot of the fate of the Enormous, Angry Papal States in Germany from my multiplayer game that I mentioned previously:
I tried to save them, but there's only so much one can do from afar when Austria goes on another rampage.
