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Power Blocs

6 identities23 principle groups

Identities

Identity Bloc Leader Members
Trade League ✓ Customs Union+10 Mandate Progress per Great Power+5 Mandate Progress per Major Power+2 Mandate Progress per Minor Power+2 Mandate Progress per Unrecognized Major Power+1 Mandate Progress per Unrecognized Regional Power-1 Power Bloc Cohesion per Power Bloc Member-15 Great Power Power Bloc Invitation Acceptance Chance +25% Trade Capacity —
Sovereign Empire ✓ Can Subjugate Power Bloc Member+10 Mandate Progress per Great Power+5 Mandate Progress per Major Power+2 Mandate Progress per Minor Power+2 Mandate Progress per Unrecognized Major Power+1 Mandate Progress per Unrecognized Regional Power-20 Great Power Power Bloc Invitation Acceptance Chance-10 Major Power Power Bloc Invitation Acceptance Chance-10 Unrecognized Major Power Power Bloc Invitation Acceptance Chance-30 Power Bloc Invitation Acceptance Chance-3 Power Bloc Cohesion per Power Bloc Member -0.05 Weekly Liberty Desire for all Subjects —
Ideological Union ✓ Allows …+10 Mandate Progress per Great Power+5 Mandate Progress per Major Power+2 Mandate Progress per Minor Power+2 Mandate Progress per Unrecognized Major Power+1 Mandate Progress per Unrecognized Regional Power-2 Power Bloc Cohesion per Power Bloc Member +15% Enactment Speed✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members —
Military Treaty ✓ Allows free War Goal+10 Mandate Progress per Great Power+5 Mandate Progress per Major Power+2 Mandate Progress per Minor Power+2 Mandate Progress per Unrecognized Major Power+1 Mandate Progress per Unrecognized Regional Power-15 Great Power Power Bloc Invitation Acceptance Chance-2 Power Bloc Cohesion per Power Bloc Member +10% Prestige from Army Power Projection+10% Prestige from Navy Power Projection +20% Training Rate
Religious Convocation ✓ Allows …+10 Mandate Progress per Great Power+5 Mandate Progress per Major Power+2 Mandate Progress per Minor Power+2 Mandate Progress per Unrecognized Major Power+1 Mandate Progress per Unrecognized Regional Power-2 Power Bloc Cohesion per Power Bloc Member +25% Clergymen Investment Pool contribution efficiency +33% Conversion+25% … Political Strength+5% Birth Rate
Cultural Commonwealth ✓ Allows … in Power Bloc Members+10 Mandate Progress per Great Power+5 Mandate Progress per Major Power+2 Mandate Progress per Minor Power+2 Mandate Progress per Unrecognized Major Power+1 Mandate Progress per Unrecognized Regional Power-2 Power Bloc Cohesion per Power Bloc Member ✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members —

Principles

Shared Canon primary for Cultural Commonwealth

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — +10% Technology Spread for Society
2 — — +10% Technology Spread for Society+10% Assimilation
3 — — +10% Technology Spread for Society+10% Assimilation-10% Radicalism increases for the Full Acceptance Status

Construction

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — -75% Infrastructure Usage of Construction Sector buildings
2 — — -75% Infrastructure Usage of Construction Sector buildings+10% State Construction Efficiency
3 — — +10% State Construction Efficiency-75% Infrastructure Usage of Construction Sector buildings

Internal Trade primary for Trade League

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — +5% Port building Throughput+10% Infrastructure
2 — — +10% Infrastructure+10% Port building Throughput+5% Company Throughput Bonus
3 — — +10% Infrastructure+10% Port building Throughput+5% Company Throughput Bonus-25% …Merchant Marine Cost of Port Connections

Market Unification

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 ✓ Cannot place Embargo on another Power Bloc member+100 Trade Advantage within Power Bloc — +10% Infrastructure
2 ✓ Customs Union — +10% Infrastructure
3 ✓ Customs Union — +10% Infrastructure+10% Supply Ships Construction Efficiency

Vassalization primary for Sovereign Empire

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — +10 …Authority per Subject
2 — — +15 …Authority per Subject+25% Income transfer from Subjects
3 — — +20 …Authority per Subject+25% Income transfer from Subjects✓ Allow enacting Decrees on Subject States

Advanced Research

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — ✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members +25% Institution Size Change Speed for …-10% …Bureaucracy Cost of …✓ Disallow …
Grants institution: Education
2 — ✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members +40% Institution Size Change Speed for …-25% …Bureaucracy Cost of …✓ Disallow …
Grants institution: Education
3 — ✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members +50% Institution Size Change Speed for …-50% …Bureaucracy Cost of …✓ Disallow …
Grants institution: Education

Defensive Cooperation primary for Military Treaty

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 ✓ Cannot start or join wars amongst Power Bloc members — —
2 ✓ Cannot start or join wars amongst Power Bloc members-50% Sway Maneuver cost for the Diplomatic Play Target ✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members —
3 ✓ Cannot start or join wars amongst Power Bloc members-50% Sway Maneuver cost for the Diplomatic Play Target — ✓ Can call Power Bloc members with the Call Ally Sway in defensive Diplomatic Plays

Aggressive Coordination primary for Military Treaty

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — -30% War Goal Maneuver cost for the Diplomatic Play Initiator
2 — — -30% War Goal Maneuver cost for the Diplomatic Play Initiator-15% War Exhaustion from Casualties
3 -10 Power Bloc Cohesion — -30% War Goal Maneuver cost for the Diplomatic Play Initiator-15% War Exhaustion from Casualties✓ Can call Power Bloc members with the Call Ally Sway in all Diplomatic Plays+15% Infamy Generation

External Trade primary for Trade League

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — +25% Trade Capacity+25% Trade Advantage
2 — — +25% Trade Capacity+25% Trade Advantage
3 — — +25% Trade Capacity+25% Trade Advantage✓ Ignores Trade Advantage penalty from Interests

Food Standardization

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — +10% Agriculture Throughput
2 — — +10% Agriculture Throughput-10% Mortality
3 — — +10% Agriculture Throughput-10% Mortality+1 Standard of Living

Police Coordination

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — ✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members +25% Institution Size Change Speed for …-10% …Bureaucracy Cost of …✓ Disallow …
2 — ✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members +40% Institution Size Change Speed for …-25% …Bureaucracy Cost of …✓ Disallow …
Grants institution: Law Enforcement
3 — ✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members +50% Institution Size Change Speed for …-50% …Bureaucracy Cost of …✓ Disallow …
Grants institution: Law Enforcement

Transportation Infrastructure

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — +33% Infrastructure per … Population+33% Maximum Infrastructure from Population
2 — — +33% Infrastructure per … Population+33% Maximum Infrastructure from Population+20% Port building Throughput
3 — — +20% Port building Throughput+33% Infrastructure per … Population+33% Maximum Infrastructure from Population+10 Economy of Scale Building Level Cap

Militarized Industry

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — +10% Automotive Industries building Throughput+10% Arms Industries building Throughput+10% Artillery Foundry building Throughput+10% Shipyards building Throughput
2 — — +10% Automotive Industries building Throughput+10% Arms Industries building Throughput+10% Artillery Foundry building Throughput+10% Shipyards building Throughput-15% Military Goods Cost
3 — — +10% Automotive Industries building Throughput+10% Arms Industries building Throughput+10% Artillery Foundry building Throughput+10% Shipyards building Throughput-15% Military Goods Cost

Colonial Offices

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — ✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members +25% Institution Size Change Speed for …-10% …Bureaucracy Cost of …
2 — ✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members +40% Institution Size Change Speed for …-25% …Bureaucracy Cost of …
Grants institution: Colonial Affairs
3 — ✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members +50% Institution Size Change Speed for …-50% …Bureaucracy Cost of …
Grants institution: Colonial Affairs

Foreign Investment

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — ✓ Increased Leverage from Economic Dependence
2 — — -50% Cost for Nationalization✓ Increased Leverage from Economic Dependence
3 ✓ Foreign Investment Rights in Power Bloc Member with lower Rank — -50% Cost for Nationalization✓ Increased Leverage from Economic Dependence

Creative Legislature primary for Ideological Union

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — -33% Enactment Stall Chance
2 — — -33% Enactment Stall Chance-25% Political Movement Activism Increase from Disapproved Enactment+25% Political Movement Activism Reduction from Approved Enactment
3 — — -33% Enactment Stall Chance-25% Political Movement Activism Increase from Disapproved Enactment+25% Political Movement Activism Reduction from Approved Enactment+1 Maximum Law Enactment Setbacks

Freedom of Movement primary for Cultural Commonwealth

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — +25% Migration Quota
2 — — +25% Migration Quota+50% Mass Migration Attraction
3 ✓ Allow Migration within a Power Bloc — +25% Migration Quota+50% Mass Migration Attraction

Divine Economics primary for Religious Convocation

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — +50 Trade Advantage with Co-Religionists+50% Income transfer from Heathen Subjects
2 — — +50 Trade Advantage with Co-Religionists+50% Income transfer from Heathen Subjects
3 — — +50 Trade Advantage with Co-Religionists+50% Income transfer from Heathen Subjects+25% Wages for State Religion Pops

Exploitation of Members primary for Sovereign Empire

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 -5 Power Bloc Cohesion +20% …Authority —
2 -10 Power Bloc Cohesion +20% …Authority+20% …Influence —
3 -20 Power Bloc Cohesion+0.05 Income Transfer to Power Bloc Leader +20% …Authority+20% …Influence —

Sacred Civics primary for Religious Convocation

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — ✓ Higher Diplomatic Proposal Acceptance for Countries with same Religion
2 — — ✓ Higher Diplomatic Proposal Acceptance for Countries with same Religion✓ Reduced Liberty Desire for Same Religion
3 — ✓ Impose same … Law on Bloc Members ✓ Higher Diplomatic Proposal Acceptance for Countries with same Religion✓ Reduced Liberty Desire for Same Religion

Ideological Truth primary for Ideological Union

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — -33 Popularity of Agitators In Opposition-25% Bolstering cost-25% Suppression cost
2 — — -33 Popularity of Agitators In Opposition-25% Bolstering cost-25% Suppression cost+10% Party Whip Impact on Ideological Incoherence
3 — — -33 Popularity of Agitators In Opposition-25% Bolstering cost-25% Suppression cost+10% Party Whip Impact on Ideological Incoherence+25 Minimum Legitimacy

Companies

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — +10% Company Throughput Bonus
2 — — +10% Company Throughput Bonus+1 Free Company Charters
3 — — +10% Company Throughput Bonus+1 Free Company Charters+1 Max Number of Companies

Maritime Supremacy

Tier Bloc Leader Members
1 — — +10% Ship Involvement Generation+10% Flagship Involvement Gain
2 — — +10% Ship Involvement Generation+10% Flagship Involvement Gain+5 Max Ship Construction Progress
3 ✓ Allows port access between Power Bloc members — +10% Ship Involvement Generation+10% Flagship Involvement Gain+5 Max Ship Construction Progress-10% Navy Goods Cost

Higher principle tiers include the lower tiers' effects only where their modifiers repeat them — values shown verbatim