Decentralized nation

Decentralized nations are non-playable countries. They represent regions and peoples with a lack of central government, such as Native American or African tribes. Decentralized nations do not interact with most game mechanics, such as diplomacy or economy.

Colonization[edit | edit source]

Main article: Colonization

The primary interaction between decentralized nations and centralized countries is colonization. When a centralized country establishes a colony, it starts with a single province, and the colony state grows province by province. A new province is taken from the decentralized nation and given to the colonizer each time the colonial growth reaches 100%.

Tension and native uprising[edit | edit source]

While a colony is growing, it generates tension with neighboring decentralized nations, between 2.5 and 20 for each province colonized. Tension decays at a base rate of 5 per year, but if a country is growing a colony, tension generally continues to increase.

If tension reaches 75 or more, the decentralized nation may begin a native uprising – a special diplomatic play – against the colonizing country to retake its homeland and expel the invaders. As a diplomatic play, other nations can support either side as normal. If the decentralized nation wins the play or war, they annex the colonizer's colony states in each state region they own part of, while if the colonizer wins, they gain the colonial rights modifier, doubling colonization speed against said decentralized nation for the duration of the truce – 5 years.

When a native uprising play starts, that decentralized nation's states cannot be colonized by any country; this pauses the growth of all colonies in its state regions unless the region is shared with another decentralized nation. When colonization is paused this way, colonial states "revert" to unincorporated states temporarily. This can cause a country's declared interest to be converted into an inherent interest. However, when the war concludes, the colony is automatically restarted – if it remains, removing the inherent interest and requiring a country to redeclare an interest in order to continue the colony.

Centralization[edit | edit source]

Decentralized nations cannot typically become centralized. However, a few effects can turn certain decentralized nations into centralized countries.

• The journal entry The Nations of Turtle Island allows a centralized country in North America with an Indigenous American Heritage primary culture to turn neighboring decentralized nations in North America with Indigenous American Heritage primary cultures into unrecognized ones.
• The journal entry The Conquest of the Desert has a 5% chance each month to trigger the event An Unlikely Kingdom, which has an option to turn a random Patagonian decentralized nation into an unrecognized puppet of the country that receives the event.

List of decentralized nations[edit | edit source]

Most decentralized nations are in Africa, with a smaller number in the Pacific and the Americas. A number of decentralized nations are not present at the start of the game, but can appear by a cultural secession.

Africa decentralized nations[edit | edit source]

Country	Primary cultures	Starting States	CollapseRegion
Adagh	Tuareg	Timbuktu	Senegal
Ahaggar	Tuareg	East Sahara	North Africa
Air	Tuareg	Niger	Niger
Anyi	Akan	Ivory Coast	Senegal
Azande	Azande	Congo Orientale Ubangi-Shari	Congo
Bamum	Equatorial Bantu	North Cameroon	Niger
Bangala	Mongo Fluvial Bantu	Equateur	Congo
Barotse	Kavango Bantu	Zambia Botswana East Angola	Congo Southern Africa
Basuto	Sotho	Zululand	Southern Africa
Baule	Akan	Windward Coast Ivory Coast	Senegal
Bemba	Lacustrine Bantu	Kazembe Zambia	Zanj Congo
Bobangi	Mongo Bakongo	Equateur Congo	Congo
Bundu	Fulbe Mande	Gambia	Senegal
Cayor	Wolof	Senegal	Senegal
Chokwe	Lunda Ovimbundu	East Angola	Congo
Dar Fertit	Equatorial Bantu Azande	Equatoria	Nile
Dar al Kuti	Fur Equatorial Bantu	Ubangi-Shari	Congo
Dinka	Dinka	Equatoria	Nile
Duala	Equatorial Bantu	South Cameroon	Congo
Ewe	Ewe	Togo	Niger
Fang	Fang	Gabon South Cameroon	Congo
Gogo	Lacustrine Bantu	Lindi	Zanj
Griqualand	Khoisan Tswana	Northern Cape	Southern Africa
Hehe	Lacustrine Bantu	Lindi	Zanj
Hemba	Fluvial Bantu	Congo Orientale	Congo
Herero	Herero Khoisan	Hereroland	Southern Africa
Igbo	Ibo	Niger Delta	Niger
Jolof	Wolof	Senegal	Senegal
Kaabu	Mande	Gambia	Senegal
Kabadougou	Mande	Windward Coast	Senegal
Kasanje	Lunda Ovimbundu	East Angola	Congo
Kazembe	Lunda	Kazembe Katanga	Zanj
Kikuyu	Kikuyu	Kenya	Zanj
Kong	Dyula Senufo	Ivory Coast Volta	Senegal
Kru	Kru	Windward Coast	Senegal
Kuba	Fluvial Bantu	Kasai	Congo
Lega	Fluvial Bantu	Congo Orientale	Congo
Loango	Bakongo	Congo Gabon	Congo
Luba	Luba	Katanga Congo Orientale Kasai	Congo
Lunda	Lunda Ovimbundu	East Angola Katanga	Congo
Luo	Luo	Rift Valley	Zanj
Mandinka	Mande	Guinea	Senegal
Mangbetu	Fluvial Bantu	Congo Orientale	Congo
Manica	Shona	Zambezia Zambezi	Zanj Southern Africa
Maravi	Chewa	Kazembe Mocambique	Zanj
Masai	Maasai	Rift Valley Tanganyika	Zanj
Maseko	Shona	Zambezia	Zanj
Mashona	Shona	Zambezi	Southern Africa
Matabele	Nguni Shona	Zambezi	Southern Africa
Mossi	Mossi	Volta	Senegal
Nama	Khoisan	Namaqualand	Southern Africa
Nuer	Nuer	Equatoria	Nile
Nyamwezi	Unyamwezi	Tangayika	Zanj
Oualata	Bidan	Inner Mauritania Mauritania	Senegal
Ovimbundu	Ovimbundu	South Angola	Congo
Sahrawi	Amazigh	West Sahara Inner Morocco	North Africa
Sangu	Lacustrine Bantu	Lindi	Zanj
Serer	Mande	Gambia	Senegal
Susu	Mande	Guinea	Senegal
Teke	Bakongo	Congo	Congo
Tibesti	Teda	Chad	Niger
Toposa	Nilotic	Equatoria	Nile
Trarza	Bidan	Mauritania	Senegal
Tswana	Tswana	Botswana Northern Cape	Southern Africa
Tuat	Tuareg	Sahara	North Africa
Turkana	Nilotic Maasai	Rift Valley	Zanj
Yaka	Bakongo Lunda	Bas-Congo	Congo

Americas decentralized nations[edit | edit source]

Country	Primary cultures	Starting States	CollapseRegion
Absaroka	Siouan	Montana	Great Plains
Apache	Apache	New Mexico Arizona	Great Plains
Arapaho	Siouan	Colorado Wyoming	Great Plains
Athabaska	Athabaskan	Alaska	Canada
Comanche	Comanche	Texas Oklahoma Oklahoma New Mexico	Dixie Great Plains
Guarani (GNI)	Guarani	Alto Paraguay Chaco Santa Fe	La Plata
Iron Confederacy	Cree Siouan	Saskatchewan Alberta Manitoba	Great Plains Canada
Lakota	Dakota	South Dakota Minnesota Montana Nebraska North Dakota Wyoming	Great Plains The Midwest
Mapuche	Patagonian	Patagonia Buenos Aires Mendoza	La Plata
Navajo	Navajo	Arizona New Mexico Utah	Pacific Coast Great Plains
Niitsitapi	Siouan	Alberta Montana	Great Plains
Nimíipuu	Nez Perce	Idaho	Pacific Coast
Pannakwati	Paiute	Idaho Nevada Wyoming	Pacific Coast Great Plains
Pawnee	Caddoan	Nebraska Kansas	Great Plains
Séliš	Salish	Montana Wyoming	Great Plains
Selk’nam	Patagonian	Araucania	La Plata
Tehuelche	Patagonian	Patagonia Araucania	La Plata
Ute	Paiute	Utah Colorado	Pacific Coast Great Plains
Yat’siminoli	Muskogean	Florida	Dixie

Pacific and Asia decentralized nations[edit | edit source]

Country	Primary cultures	Starting States	CollapseRegion
Ainu Mosir	Ainu	Hokkaido	Japan
Bilua	Melanesian	Solomon Islands	Oceania
Fiji	Melanesian	Fiji	Oceania
Halia	Melanesian	Bougainville	Oceania
Kanak	Melanesian	Kanak	Oceania
Khasi	Naga	Assam	Bengal
Kuki	Lushai	Assam Arakan Mandalay	Bengal
Micronesia	Micronesian	East Micronesia West Micronesia	Oceania
Mirning	Aboriginal	Western Australia	Oceania
Naga	Naga	Assam	Bengal
Nauru	Melanesian	Nauru	Oceania
Ngāi Tahu	Māori	South Island	Oceania
Ngāti Toa	Māori	North Island South Island	Oceania
Noongar	Aboriginal	Western Australia	Oceania
Papua	Melanesian	Eastern New Guinea Western New Guinea	Indonesia
Sakhalin	Ainu Siberian	Sakhalin	Japan
Sulawesi	Moluccan	Celebes	Indonesia
Tipperah	Lushai	Assam	Bengal
Tonga	Polynesian	Tonga	Oceania
Turkmenia	Turkmen	Turkmenia Chorasmia Merv Uralsk	Central Asia
Vanuatu	Melanesian	Vanuatu	Oceania
Wati	Aboriginal	Western Australia Northern Territory South Australia	Oceania

Revolter decentralized nations[edit | edit source]

Country	Primary cultures	CollapseRegion
Bassa	Bassa	Sengal
Batonga	Tonga	Southern Africa
Beja	Beja	Nile
Cascadia	Salish	Pacific Coast
Chewa	Chewa	Zanj
Council of Three Fires	Algonquian	The Midwest
Dakota	Dakota	The Midwest
Equatoria	Nilotic	Nile
Gamilaraay	Aboriginal	Oceania
Gao	Songhai	Senegal
IBL	Ibibio	Niger
Kissi	Kissi	Senegal
Lomwe	Lomwe	Zanj
Makua	Makua	Zanj
Michoacán	Tarascan	Mexico
Muisca	Muisca	Gran Colombia
Muscogee	Muskogean	Dixie
Navajoland	Navajo	Pacific Coast
Nuba	Nuba	Nile
O’odham Country	O’odham	Mexico
Oaxaca	Zapotec Mixtec	Mexico
Orinoco	Cariban	Gran Colombia
Sara	Sara	Congo
Sena	Sena	Zanj
Sukuma	Sukuma	Zanj
Tiris	Haratin	Senegal
Tivland	Tiv	Niger
Tupinamba	Tupinamba	Brazil
Uluru	Aboriginal	Oceania
Uyao	Yao	Zanj
Wayuu	Guajiro	Gran Colombia
Xhosa	Xhosa	Southern Africa

References[edit | edit source]