



Fifth is that you can't use those Papal interactions, which makes your religion nearly useless. Fourth is that you're stuck with a below-average government that grants you no bonuses to absolutism and prevents you from becoming an empire, and the only way to get rid of it is to form Mughals or Rum (EDIT: or Japan or I think Sokoto). Third is that you have no control over how good your ruler is because you can't disinherit, so on average your monarch power generation will be much worse than that of both republics and monarchies. Second is the inability to turn your ruler into a general, which forces you to spend a bit more mil power than other countries. First you have the 40% base clergy influence, which means that you basically can't interact with them beyond the standard seek support + demand admin, so no super useful half-cost missionary or unrest advisors unless you want to risk them taking over.

Yeah it's a pretty strong tag, but it's not without its disadvantages. From there you can role-play as a fascist superpower that aims to burn all Heretics in the name of God Emperor(?). Overall, very fun nation, just gotta join HRE at the beginning and start eating Northern Italy. With Offensive, quality and economics + Absolutism + Adviser, Papal State will have 133~135% Discipline.Įconomy: with 100 Devotion and National Ideas, Papal State can have 50~65% Tax modifier, so as history suggested, Pope taxes very well (also you can sell bunch of holy stuff that grants like permanent bonus gold, useful in the beginning). So Overall, Papal States gets 10% Discipline, 10% Morale and 20% Manpower on the basic, and thus their military rivals pretty much most nations except Prussia/Brandenburg (pretty close to them though). Plus 20 percent Manpower modifier from Kingdom of God decision and Swiss Guard Event. Papal State gets an event which grants them (one of the 3 choices) 5 Percent Discipline early on which lasts the whole game (you also get 5 Percent from NI).Īlso Papal State basically guarantees 100 Prestige (I had +5 prestige per year on 100 Prestige) through National Ideas, events, Kingdom of God decision and Government type which grants 10 Percent Morale both Land and Navy. Papal state, while favored by many, is Alarmingly unknown to new players, but this little state can potentially be the land of Space Jesus Marines who taxes really well.
