ETHIOPIA YEAAAHHHHH
The known world to us:
We currently see most of the old world, we will discover more either by getting the exploration idea or by letting the Europeans explore for us;
But look at us! Puny little Ethiopia, seen as misguided heretics by the Europeans and as heathens by our Muslim neighbors. Lets hope that changes soon.
I'm going to do a run down of what's going on at the moment and then give you some options.
We have 7 thousand troops to the south, and 1 thousand in our capital.
We have 62 ducats, around 18,000 manpower, neutral stability, 4 prestige, and 100 legitimacy currently (ignore the sword). We also have two merchants, 0 colonists, 2 diplomats, and 1 missionary. The paper and quill, the dove, and the two swords are our current administration, diplomatic, and military points. They increase by the monarchs points every month and are used for various things, including technology, stability, and buildings.
We can build a level two fort in all of our provinces, which will boost the missionary strength by .1% and the supply limit of our troops by .5%. It also increases defense by 1. Each fort will cost 50 ducats and 10 military points to build. It would take 12 months for each one.
Our king, Zara Yakob Solomonid, has great stats, with having a 6 in admin points and a 5 in diplo and military points. He's 28.
Our heir however, is terrible. He's a 1/2/1, if he comes to power we'll be in a sticky situation. He's 24.
We have the most power in the Ethiopia trade node, as it should be. I'll handle trade most of the time.
Our economy is stable, yet it's going slow. We're only getting 2 ducats per month, but i sent a merchant to collect from our trade node, so we should be getting a small boost.
We are balanced in tech with most other nations we can see. The southern Africans are below us though. At least we're superior to someone.
We mostly have grains for us to trade, but there's some cocoa, a little yarn and cotton, and 1 iron and 1 copper province.
Our culture group, the dark blue is our main culture. We have some Sidadmo to our southern border.
The autonomy is more available to the south, but it's at 0 to the north do to that being where are main culture lies.
The religion mapmode. Our people are mostly Coptic, but Sunni are to the east. Our northern neighbor has a signifigant Coptic population that we may gain a casus belli for.
We can't convert our Sunni population at the moment, but building forts there may help.
Other nations opinions of us are mostly neutral, but we have negative relations with Adal to the east.
We have some mission available. We can fortify a province for some bonuses, improve relations with a nation, or conquer a province to our north.
We can also set rivals, which will decrease our relations with them but boosts with other nations rivaled to them. It also increases our chances of gaining a free casus belli with them.
Well that's basically it. So what do we do? Improve relations, build shtuff, fabricate claims, gain alliances, build troops>????????////?/../ The list goes on!!1
Also chose a mission please, and at most 2 rivals, 3 max (even though there are only 3 we can pick :I)
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