Culture

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The concept of culture as implemented in EU3 is a gameplay factor designed to affect expansion. In the game, cultures are divided into groups. Each province has one dominant culture, and each country has one primary culture and possibly one or more accepted cultures.

It is worth noting that culture and culture groups are not tied to language.

Contents 1 Culture groups 2 Primary culture 3 Accepted culture 4 Culture Change 4.1 Colonies 4.2 Cities 4.2.1 Culural Assimilation Event 5 List of Culture Groups 5.1 Germanic 5.2 Scandinavian 5.3 British 5.4 Gaelic 5.5 Latin 5.6 Iberian 5.7 French 5.8 Basque 5.9 Finno-Ugric 5.10 South Slavic 5.11 West Slavic 5.12 East Slavic 5.13 Baltic 5.14 Byzantine 5.15 Semitic 5.16 Persian 5.17 Altaic 5.18 Central American 5.19 South American 5.20 Carribean 5.21 North American 5.22 East Asian 5.23 Mon Khmer 5.24 Malay 5.25 Thai 5.26 Burman 5.27 Pacific 5.28 Eastern Aryan 5.29 Hindusthani 5.30 Western Aryan 5.31 Dravidian 5.32 African

Culture groups

As mentioned above, all cultures are grouped into culture groups. As an example, the Scandinavian group consists of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. As defined in Cultures.txt:

scandinavian = {
    swedish
    danish
    norwegian
} 

Primary culture

All countries have one, and only one, primary culture. Provinces with this culture have no tax income penalties from culture. Provinces from another culture within the same group has a 10% tax income penalty.

Accepted culture

If a culture becomes a significant minority within a country, they can gain the status as accepted culture. The criteria for "significant minority" is that it represents 20% or more of the base tax value in all your core provinces (not just the ones you own) and that you own at least one core of that culture. As of v.1.3, a culture loses it's accepted status if it drops below 5%. These percentages can be changed in defines.txt.

Provinces of an accepted culture have, like primary culture provinces, no income penalties from culture. Provinces with a culture that isn't in the primary culture's group or an accepted culture has a 30% tax income penalty.

Culture Change

There are a few ways to change a province culture:

Colonies

If an unclaimed province has natives then they have a particular culture and religion, by sending your colonists you not only gain ownership of the province but change the culture and religion to your own.

If you "gain" a colony of another nation, you can change the culture/religion by sending one of your own colonist, IF he arrives before the colony growing to 900 settlers... in other words if your colonist arrives and the result is still a colony (up to 999 settlers) then you get the culture/religion change.

You can use the Spy action Incite Natives before gaining your enemy's colony in order to reduce the settlers below 900 so after gaining ownership you can convert it to your own culture/religion.

Cities

Once the province grows into a city it won't fall bellow 1000 population no matter what, there is no way to devolve the city into a colony.

Nevertheless if the province has a Pagan Religion sending a missionary will turn it into your own religion AND culture.

For city provinces with non-Pagan religions in "In Nomine" you could use the Religious Rebels to change the province religion into Pagan and then use missionary conversion.

I'm not sure but is there a "flavour" of Rebelds that changes culture???

Culural Assimilation Event

In "In Nomine" there is an event that changes the culture of provinces into your own, the event script can be found in this path:

\Europa Universalis III\events\culturalspread.txt

Cultural Assimilation

Triggers
-Core Province

you have a core in the Province

-Revolt Risk

NOT 1 in the Province

-Same Religion

the province has your country's religion

-Different Culture

the province does NOT have your country's main culture

-Capital OR Neighbor

the province is either your Capital OR you own a neighbor province with your same Culture and same Religion.

MTH
-2400 months -> 200 years

MTH Modifiers
-Exception: Greeks vs Turks in Asia Minor -> -95% MTH

Province's Region: Turkey

Province's Culture Group: Turko Semitic OR Byzantine

Owner's Culture Group: Turko Semitic OR Byzantine

-Exception: Slavic vs Tartar -> -95% MTH

Province's Culture: Khazak OR Kirgiz OR Siberian OR Tartar

Owner's Culture Group: East Slavic OR West Slavic OR Baltic

-Exception: Prussian culture in Northern Germany -> -95% MTH

Province's Culture: SaxonOR Pommeranian

Owner's Primary Culture: Prussian

-Exception: Colonial -> -95% MTH

Overseas Province: Yes

Owner's Technology Group: Latin OR' Eastern' OR Muslim

Owner's Culture Group: Germanic OR Scandinavian OR British OR Gaelic OR Latin OR Iberian OR French OR Basque OR Finno-Ugric OR South Slavic OR West Slavic OR East Slavic OR Baltic OR Byzantine OR Turko-Semitic

Province's Culture Group: Germanic OR Scandinavian OR British OR Gaelic OR Latin OR Iberian OR French OR Basque OR Finno-Ugric OR South Slavic OR West Slavic OR East Slavic OR Baltic OR Byzantine OR Turko-Semitic

Province's Continent: NOT Europe

Province's Region: NOT North Africa

Province's Region: NOT Middle East Central Asia

-Same Culture Group: -20% MTH
-Capital

IS Capital: -20% MTH

IS NOT Capital

10k pop.: + 10% MTH

25k pop.: + 10% MTH

50k pop.: + 50% MTH

100k pop.: +100% MTH

-Ideas

"Church Attendance Duty": - 20% MTH

"Divine Supremacy": - 10% MTH

"Humanist Tolerance": +100% MTH

-Slider "Serfdom-Free Subjects"

NOT -1: -10% MTH

= 2: +10% MTH

-Stability

= 1: - 10% MTH

= 3: - 10% MTH

= 0: +100% MTH

= -1: +100% MTH

Effect
-Culture in Province turns into your country's main Culture.

List of Culture Groups

Germanic

Pommeranian
Prussian
Hannoverian
Hessian
Saxon
Rheinlaender
Bavarian
Austrian
Dutch
Flemish

Scandinavian

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian

British

English
American
Lowland Scottish

Gaelic

Highland Scottish
Welsh
Breton
Irish

Latin

Lombard
Umbrian
Sicilian

Iberian

Castillian
Catalan
Galician
Andalucian
Portugese

French

Cosmopolitan French
Gascon
Normand
Aquitaine
Burgundian
Occitain
Wallonian

Basque

Basque

Finno-Ugric

Finnish
Estonian
Sapmi
Ingrian

South Slavic

Slovenian
Croatian
Serbian
Bulgarian
Romanian
Albanian

West Slavic

Czech
Slovak
Polish
Hungarian
Schlesian

East Slavic

Russian
Ukrainian
Byelorussian
Ruthenian

Baltic

Lithuanian
Old Prussian
Latvian

Byzantine

Greek
Georgian
Armenian

Semitic

Maghreb Arabic
Al Misr Arabic
Al Suryah Arabic
Al Iraqiya Arabic
Bedouin Arabic
Maltese
Berber

Persian

Persian
Azerbadjani
Baluchi
Kurdish

Altaic

Turkish
Turkmeni
Mongol
Tunguz
Pashtun
Tajihk
Uzbehk
Khazak
Kirgiz
Uralic
Siberian
Yakut
Tartar

Central American

Zapotek
Mayan
Aztek

South American

Inca
Guarani
Aimara
Amazonian
Patagonian
Guajiro
Teremembe
Tupinamba
Mataco

Carribean

Arawak Carib

North American

Dakota
Cherokee
Pueblo
Aleutian
Inuit
Cree
Iroquis
Huron
Navajo
Shawnee
Delaware
Creek

East Asian

Japanese
Manchu
Chihan
Cantonese
Korean

Mon Khmer

Khmer
Mon
Vietnamese

Malay

Polynesian
Cham
Malayan
Filipino
Madagascan
Sulawesi

Thai

Central Thai
Lao
Northern Thai
Shan

Burman

Burmese
Tibetan
Chin

Pacific

Papuan
Aboriginal
Melanesian
Moluccan

Eastern Aryan

Assamese
Bengali
Bihari
Nepali
Oriya
Sinhala

Hindusthani

Avadhi
Kanauji
Panjabi
Kashmiri

Western Aryan

Gujarati
Marathi
Sindhi
Rajput

Dravidian

Kannada
Malayalam
Tamil
Telegu

African

Madagasque
Tuareg
Senegambian
Dyola
Nubian
Somali
Bantu
Swahili
Ethiopian
Kongolese
Shona
Mali
Yorumba
Aka
Ashanti

Note that some of these culture groups only appear in uncolonized, unowned provinces.