Role of minor nations in the old Imperialism
- Generator of infinite money due to absorbing any supply of advanced goods
- Provider of raw materials due to offering raw materials even without any infrastructural action
- Can peacefully join the empire if relations are good enough.
New role of minor nations
- Provider of excess raw materials, because they do not have the capability of processing them themselves
- Buyer of advanced goods
- Peaceful assimilation into an empire
We need to balance importance of minor nations and realistic incorporation into the economic and diplomatic model.
Possible remedies
- Concentrate raw material ressources in minor countries
- Make them more difficult to conquer directly
- Make AIs aware that a third party war declaration on a minor is a serious offense, for example by giving minors the status of: protected by XXX
- Having more minors in the world
- Making war more expensive
- Increase the diplomatic impacts of declaring war on a minor
- Minor Nations could act synchronized in a way so that agressions towards one minor decreases relation to many minors