Burgundy is more magenta. If you want reds, you want stuff like Tarascan, England, Majapahit, Timurids, Japan. IIRC Nizny Novgorod is also red, and some of the CNs might be also. Cuzco is red also for South America, Mombasa in Africa but that one isn't a nice start

. In SEA you have Lan Xang, which is pretty powerful and an amusing nation to use religious ideas to blob and spread massed Buddhism. They have a 1% missionary strength NI and +2 TTF so they can stay Buddhist and get to 6% conversion strength from decisions/NIs for 11.5% constant rate with religious and +1 stab...easily enough to convert anything but Rome quickly and with a cathedral + more stab or inquis you can even blast Rome pretty quickly haha. This isn't a bad set, but it's not like blue or green! Green has Portugal, Russia, Mughals, Ottomans, Italy, Aztec, Cherokee, Ireland and Ayuthaya, but Russia/Ottomans really carry that one while Italy is a formable even with nations like Austria for another powerhouse painter. That's a who's who of -core cost (even without my favorite Mongolia) to go with some very strong starts.