I "finished" off my old Sweden game in Victoria 3 as it's on a very old version and I'd like to try a new game.
Because this is supposed to be an economic sim, I didn't do much warfare. I integrated Norway and got involved in a war which I did basically nothing but got Denmark (including Iceland and Greenland) in the peace deal. I also have a small colony in Africa around Ghana and Togo which produces rubber, coffee and tobacco.
I made it to the 5th biggest economy, but the first by a distance in GDP per capita. The region of Svealand alone has a GDP of 88.4 million which would put it 8th, and a GDP per capita of 22.4. We recently invented flight and I'm currently installing public toilets for reasons I have long forgotten and am scouting out the Panama canal. The large GDP increase is also due to my population growth, which was pretty insignificant until quite recently when immigration has gone through the roof to man my factories.
Wages are enormous, but it doesn't matter because Svealand is unmatched in productivity.
My standard of living is also good but only second behind a random part of British India. Literacy isn't bad either, not top of the class, but you don't need to read to work in a glassworks! Also, I've just noticed Communist Bahrain is a thing.
Sadly Finland is fucked. They got cought in a decades long civil war which massacred the economy, and I couldn't save them because they are under Russian influence. Ostrobothnia in particular scores a 6.6 in the standard of living index which from a quick search is beaten only by a starving portion of aboriginal Australia. If I had more time I'd invade and improve things.
North America looks like a classic Paradox map mush. The Confederacy kinda forgot about the north/south divide and is led by a Yankee. For some reason they control DC and New England completely disconnected from the rest of the country. The red states are part of the Afro-American Uprising led by a fascist. The yellow is the last remaining native nation, all of Columbia is part of Canada (but not all the prairies) and for some reason southern Colorado is Mexican.
The Confederate economy is trash (about a quarter of Sweden in per capita terms) but the American economy has fallen off a cliff into almost non-existance. It seems like the game doesn't like that the rest is not connected to DC which is the market center for the region. I think the new patches have changed this mechanic because it's a bit silly. America wasn't that wealthy before the war though, and their population is less than mine.
