

For this reason, it isn’t necessarily required (or even desirable) to outright conquer other countries that are standing in the way of your unification dreams - subjugating them lets you count their land towards the required goal, and allows you to integrate them into your unified country with less Infamy than you would otherwise get.


Once that button is pressed, the forming country will immediately turn into the Unification country, annexing any subjects of theirs that share a primary culture with the Unification country and own land in its integral State Regions in the process. Once these conditions are achieved, unification is as simple as the press of a button. Certain Unifications may require you to research technologies such as Nationalism or Pan-Nationalism to be available.Usually, what a Unification country considers to be its integral State Regions maps directly to the Cultural Homelands of its Primary Cultures - so the integral State Regions of Italy is any State Region that is considered to be the Cultural Homeland of either North Italian or South Italian culture. The forming country must own or be the suzerain of the owner of a sufficient number of the integral State Regions of the Unification Country.For example, the Empire of Austria can become the Empire of Germany despite not increasing their tier in the process. There is one exception to this rule - a country may form a Major Unification of the same tier, if they are themselves not already a country that counts as a Major Unification. This is a fairly weak effect, as the idea that some countries/titles are simply more inherently prestigious than others was falling out of fashion in the game’s era, but serves as a useful way to determine which countries would realistically strive to change their identities, as it’s quite unlikely that Poland would want to turn itself into just Galicia-Volhynia, while Krakow might jump at that opportunity. For example, a country that was historically regarded as a Kingdom gets a bit more Prestige than one that was a mere County. Country tier is an inherent ‘status’ assigned to each country based on how it was historically perceived, and gives Prestige based on how high the tier is. The forming country must have a lower country tier than the Unification country.For example, any country with either South German or North German Primary Culture can form Germany, which has both. The forming country must share at least one Primary Culture with the Unification country.In order for one country to become another, there’s a few conditions that must be met: These may be countries that have existed in the past (such as Poland), came into being after 1836 (such as Italy), are alt-history countries that we have deemed plausible or interesting enough to include (such as Arabia) or may even be countries that already exist on the map in 1836 but can be re-formed if they were to break up or be conquered (such as the United Provinces of Central America). A Regular Unification is, plain and simple, a particular country that can be formed by other countries.
