So, what can you do as a country or state?
A lot actually. I took these options from a game called Age of Civilizations 2. While it does cost five pounds/dollars/ whatever currency you guys use, it is a really good game to better understand running a country and understanding geography.
Options:
Declare war- You can declare war for territory, to set up a puppet, to switch their government, diplomatic insults and many others. Please research if you want to find out what else you can declare war for.
Send Threat- Threaten a country. If they decline, you can invade them. You can demand to annex them, puppet them, take certain land or demand military access.
Improve Relations- Make a country like you more. This will increase chance of being accepted into an alliance.
Send an Insult - Make a county have a worse opinion of your country.
Offer Alliance - Offer to set up an alliance between you and other countries.
Trade Request - You can use these options for trade:
- Gold
- Provinces
- Declare War
- Form a Coalition Against..
- Defensive Pact
- Non-Aggression Pact
- Proclaim Independence
- Military Access
- I will discuss trade further in a later post.
- Non- Aggression Pact - Sign an agreement to not attack each other. You can break it but it would give the world a reason to attack you.
- Defensive Pact - Sign an agreement to protect each other militarily and defend them against other countries.
- Proclaim Independence - Send a request to release a certain place (Like Catalonia or Scotland)
- Form Union - Join two countries together but have both of their names in the new county name (Like Austria-Hungary)
- Offer Vassalization - Offer to make the country a puppet of you.
- Support Rebels - Support a rebel movement (Like the Catalonian movement)
- Ask for Military Access - Request for your military to be able to access entry into their country.
- Offer Military Access - Allow another country's military to access your country.
- Send Gift - Send money or aid to another country.
- Move Capital - Move the capital to another city.
Change Type of Government - You can change to be either:
- Democratic
- Communist
- Fascist
- Republic
- Monarchy
- Horde
- City State
Again, a later post will go into more detail about governments.
Release a Vassal - Make one of your puppets a separate country.
Take Loan - Take in money that you will have to repay later.
Repay Loans - Repay borrowed money.
Wow, that took a long time! Again, any questions I will be happy to answer.