Formable countries

Some countries can be created after the game start, and some countries exist at the start of the game but can be re-formed if they cease to exist. Country formation is typically done through the Nation Formation tab on the Journal screen. Country formation is also called unification. Some formable countries are also able to be released directly, instead of being formed.

Minor unification

For most country formations, the requirements are:

• The country does not currently exist
• Having at least one of the required primary cultures
• Having a country tier lower than the formable country
• Controlling a certain percentage of target state regions

Some countries have additional requirements, for example, researching either Nationalism or Pan-nationalism.

As soon as the requirements are fulfilled, a button to form the nation can be pressed in the "Culture" tab. The country changes, updating the primary cultures and flag and increasing the country tier.

 Dominions,  Personal Unions,  Puppets, and  Vassals count toward formation for the purposes of controlling state regions (but not tributaries and protectorates). If the subject shares a primary culture of the formable country, it is entirely annexed on formation – whether they own any of the required states or not. Subjects with other primary cultures are not annexed, but do cede all target state regions to their overlord on formation. Indirect subjects of these types also count towards the formation requirements, but will become subjects of the unifier instead of being annexed.

Major unification

Major unifications have the same basic requirements as minor unifications, except that same tier countries can still form them. Further, unlike minor unifications, a country does not need to control the required states directly, but instead can gain support from same cultured countries as a unification candidate.

Most major unifications can have up to three candidates at a time, drawn from the three most prestigious  Great Powers with eligible primary cultures. If no great power is eligible,  Major Powers are then eligible to be unification candidates. Some unifications may set a different minimal rank to become a unification candidate: in case of Scandinavia and Italy, if there are no eligible  Major Powers or above, then  Minor Powers will become eligible. A unification candidate does not lose its candidacy if its rank drops below the eligible level. Each non-candidate country with eligible primary cultures chooses to support any one or none of the candidates; AI countries choose which country to support, or not, based on a score derived from relations and attitude. Subjects may only support their direct overlord.

While there are multiple candidates, none of them can form the country. Instead, each unification candidate can start a leadership play to force other candidates to renounce their candidacy, with each candidate's supporters automatically supporting their side in the play. A candidate who backs down from or loses a leadership play is disqualified from becoming a candidate again, and the number of potential candidates is also reduced by one. However, the disqualified candidate can still use the regular formation process of direct control of the required states to form the country.

While there is a single candidate and any required state is not held by a supporter or ally – or a subject of the candidate, supporter, or ally, that country can start a unification play against all other countries holding required states, excluding disqualified candidates or targets. When launching a unification play for Germany, Italy, or Scandinavia, the candidate immediately annexes all supporters. Any subjects of a supporter become subjects of the candidate. A unification play adds each required state held by targeted countries as a primary demand, while the opposing side uses the  Cut Down to Size, so if the candidate backs down or capitulates, the annexed supporters are restored. A unification play is not necessarily required; the unified country can be formed as soon as sufficient states are controlled by the sole candidate and its supporters. What makes a unification play attractive is that it does not generate infamy for the unification candidate, making it high-risk, high reward.

Beside their special mechanics, both leadership and unification plays are otherwise regular diplomatic plays, so other countries can join or be swayed and other war goals can be added as normal.

Currently, only Federation of the Andes, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, and Yugoslavia are major unifications.

Special unifications

Certain unifications have additional mechanics, such as special journal entries, decisions, or unification wargoals.

Canadian and Australian colonies can be merged either by a shared overlord or by the colonies themselves though a special decision, though the final formation follows the regular rules.

The North German Federation (NGF) and South German Federation (SGF) can be formed through a journal entry for countries of those cultures. When the entry completes, they automatically change to the federation country and receive an event giving  influence and  prestige. AI countries of the same primary culture in the country's customs union or supporting them as unification candidate for Germany are annexed; other countries of the same primary culture receive an event which annexes them or adds claims on all of their owned states. Great powers are exempted from these events.

Iberia has a journal entry in  Iberian Twilight, The Iberian Union to assist with unification.

Italian unification also has a journal entry, and while it is active the country may receive an event to annex minor or  insignificant powers that are in its  customs union, are its subject, or neighbor it, making unification easier and simpler.

Peru-Bolivia can be formed by Bolivia through the journal entry The Peru-Bolivian Confederation.

In addition to the special unification plays for major unifications, the following countries have a special annexation play to support their formation: Arabia, China, Ethiopia, India (BHT), and Indonesia. Except for China and Ethiopia's, these special plays require researching Pan-nationalism to be used.

Romania can be formed by either Moldavia or Wallachia via Journal entries, that establishes the countries as a Personal Union first and then later forms Romania.

List of formable countries

Major formable countries

All major formable countries require a certain percentage of states in a related geographic region. Note that formation requirements can differ from candidacy requirements, in which case it may be possible to form the country without ever becoming a candidate. Candidacy requirements also include the formation requirements though, so it is not possible to become a candidate without being able to form the country.

Country	Primary cultures	Country tier	Requirements		Invalid targets	Geographic region	Percentage of states
			General	Candidacy-only
Federation of the Andes	North Andean South Andean	Hegemony	Has journal entry Bolívar's Ambition	At least  major power		Andes	80% (28/35)
Germany	North German South German	Empire	Either: Has researched Pan-nationalism Has completed German National Identity journal entry Confederation of the Rhine does not exist Does not have Dual or Triple Monarchy government type Not Danubian State	At least  major power	Has Dual or Triple Monarchy government type	Greater Germany	73% (23/31)
Italy	North Italian South Italian	Empire	Not Austria, Central Europe, or Danubian State	At least  minor power Is recognized All Italian countries have researched Nationalism	If has North Italian primary culture, Does not have The Federal Solution journal entry Not Central Europe or Danubian State	Italy	70% (12/17)
Scandinavia	Swedish Danish Norwegian Icelandic	Empire		At least  minor power All Scandinavian countries Excluding Finish primary culture have researched Pan-nationalism Max 1 candidate		Scandinavia	70% (11/15)
Yugoslavia	Serbian Croatian Slovene Bosniak Bulgarian	Empire	Has researched Pan-nationalism Not Austria or Danubian State Not Bulgaria, unless it pursued Greater Yugoslavism	At least  major power Not Central Europe Not Bulgaria, unless it pursued Greater Yugoslavism	Bulgaria, if it has not pursued Greater Yugoslavism If has Croatian, Serbian, or Slovene primary culture, Does not have The Federal Solution journal entry Not Central Europe or Danubian State	Yugoslavia	75% (8/12)

Other formable countries

There are two types of other formable countries:

1. Countries that require a certain percentage of states with cultural homelands matching a primary culture. This is the same as the major formable countries.
2. Countries that require a certain percentage of states from a specified list.

Country	Primary cultures	Country tier	Other requirements	Required states	Percentage of states	EExists at start
Afghanistan	Pashtun Tajik	Kingdom		Herat Kandahar Kabulistan Hazaristan Southern Turkestan Pashtunistan Quetta Northern Baluchistan	50%
Algeria	Maghrebi Amazigh	Kingdom		Algiers Constantine Oran	100%
America	Yankee Dixie	Empire		Cultural Homelands	75%
Antillean Confederation	Caribeño Afro-Caribeño	Kingdom	Pan-nationalism	Western Cuba Central Cuba Eastern Cuba Santo Domingo Porto Rico	80%
Aotearoa	Maori	Kingdom		Cultural Homelands	100%
Arabia	Mashriqi Bedouin Misri Yemenite	Empire	Pan-nationalism	Yemen Oman Abu Dhabi Nejd Hedjaz Hail Baghdad Transjordan Palestine Syria Aleppo Mosul Deir-Ez-Zor Basra Sinai Lower Egypt Middle Egypt Matruh Egyptian Desert Upper Egypt	75%
Australia	Australian	Kingdom	Nationalism	Cultural Homelands	75%
Baluchistan	Baluchi	Kingdom	Nationalism	Baluchistan Northern Baluchistan Bampur	33%
Bengal	Bengali	Kingdom		Cultural Homelands	50%
Brazil	Brazilian	Empire		Cultural Homelands	80%
Byzantium	Greek	Empire	Monarchy Is pursuing the formation of Byzantium Formable nations game rule: All	Eastern Thrace Attica Thessaly Macedonia Skopia Western Thrace Northern Thrace Hudavendigar Aydin West Aegean Islands East Aegean Islands Albania	100%
Canada	Anglo-Canadian Franco-Canadian	Kingdom	Nationalism	Cultural Homelands	75%
Carnatic	Tamil	Kingdom	Nationalism	Cultural Homelands	75%
Carolina	Dixie	Principality	Formable nations game rule: All Is either of: North Carolina South Carolina	North Carolina South Carolina	100%
Central America	Central American	Kingdom		Cultural Homelands	50%
Central Europe AI countries will not form this country	North German South German Czech Dutch Flemish Wallonian Alemannic North Italian Slovene	Hegemony	Formable nations game rule: All Capital is in Europe	Cultural Homelands	75%
China	Manchu Han	Empire		Cultural Homelands	60%
Colombia	North Andean	Kingdom		Cultural Homelands	80%
Confederation of the Rhine	North German South German	Empire	Nationalism Is none of: Prussia Austria North German Federation South German Federation	Hesse Saxony Schleswig-Holstein Anhalt Franconia Bavaria Brunswick Hanover Baden Wurttemberg Ruhr Westphalia Elbe Mecklenburg	75%
Czechoslovakia	Czech Slovak	Kingdom		Bohemia Moravia Slovakia Ruthenia	75%
Danubian State	South German Hungarian Romanian Croat Czech Slovak Slovene	Empire	Pan-nationalism Either: Multiculturalism Subjecthood	Cultural Homelands	75%
Dravida Nadu	Tamil Telugu Malayalam Kannada	Empire	Pan-nationalism	Cultural Homelands	75%
England	English	Kingdom		Home Counties Midlands East Anglia West Country Yorkshire Lancashire	75%
Ethiopia	Amhara Omoro Tigray	Empire		Gonder Amhara Oromia	33%
France	French	Empire		Île-de-France Provence Normandy Languedoc Rhone French Low Countries Picardy Alsace-Lorraine Poitou Guyenne Auvergne-Limousin Brittany Burgundy Champagne Franche-Comté Lorraine Aquitaine Orléans	75%
Free States of America	Yankee	Kingdom	Slavery Banned	Cultural Homelands	75%
Galicia-Lodomeria	Polish Ukrainian	Principality		East Galicia West Galicia	100%
Gran Colombia	North Andean	Empire		Cundinamarca Ecuador Miranda Antioquia Guaviare Bolívar Zulia Cauca	85%
Great Britain	English Scottish	Empire		Cultural Homelands	75%
Gujarat	Gujarati	Kingdom	Nationalism	Cultural Homelands	100%
Hindustan	Hindustani	Empire		Cultural Homelands	100%
Iberia	Spanish Catalan Portuguese Basque Galician	Empire	Pan-nationalism If the capital is in Iberia, all subjects in Iberia have less than 75% liberty desire	Cultural Homelands	90%
India	Assamese Avadhi Baluchi Bengali Bihari Gujarati Kannada Malayalam Marathi Oria Punjabi Pathan Rajput Sindi Tamil Telugu Hindustani Bundeli Pahari Gondi Bageli Chhattisgarhi Deccani	Hegemony	Pan-nationalism	Assam Awadh Baluchistan Bihar Bombay Malwa Ceylon Circars Delhi Gujarat Hyderabad Kashmir Madras Mysore Central Provinces West Bengal Orissa Pashtunistan Punjab Rajputana Sindh South Bengal Travancore Ceded Districts Bundelkhand Agra Punjab Hills	75%
Indonesia	Balinese Batak Bornean Dayak Javan Malay Moluccan Sumatran	Empire	Pan-nationalism	Aceh Central Java East Borneo East Java Malaya Moluccas Celebes North Borneo North Sumatra South Sumatra Sunda Islands West Borneo Western New Guinea West Java	65%
Ireland	Irish	Kingdom		Cultural Homelands	75%
Kazakhstan	Kazakh	Kingdom	Nationalism	Semipalatinsk Akmolinsk Ili Uralsk Aktobe Syrdarya	50%
Kirgizia	Kyrgyz	Grand Principality	Nationalism	Kirghizia	100%
Laos	Lao	Kingdom		Laos	100%
Libya	Maghrebi	Kingdom	Nationalism Capital is in one of the required states	Cyrenaica Fezzan Tripoli	100%
Maghreb AI countries will not form this country	Maghrebi Amazigh Bidan	Empire	Pan-nationalism	Algiers al Rif Constantine Cyrenaica East Sahara Fez Fezzan Inner Mauritania Inner Morocco Marrakech Mauritania Oran Sahara Tripoli Tunisia West Sahara	50%
Maharashtra	Marathi	Kingdom		Cultural Homelands	100%
Mali	Bambara Fulbe Wolof Mande	Kingdom		Timbuktu Western Mali Eastern Mali Senegal Guinea Volta	50%
Mexico	Mexican	Kingdom		Cultural Homelands	75%
North German Federation	North German	Kingdom	Nationalism	Cultural Homelands	75%
Orissa	Oria	Kingdom	Nationalism	Cultural Homelands	100%
Pakistan	Kashmiri Punjabi Sindi Baluchi Pashtun	Empire	Pan-nationalism  Sunni	Baluchistan Pashtunistan Kashmir Punjab Sindh Quetta	80%
Peru	South Andean	Kingdom		Lima Cajamarca Ica Arequipa Tarapacá	80%
Poland	Polish	Kingdom		Warszawa Mazovia Lublin Grodno West Galicia East Galicia Upper Silesia Posen West Prussia	55%
Poland-Lithuania	Polish Lithuanian	Empire		Grodno East Galicia Warszawa Lublin Kaunas Vilnius Mazovia Posen Volhynia West Galicia West Prussia	100%
Polynesia	Hawaiian Māori Melanesian Polynesian Micronesian Yuanzhumin	Empire		Cultural Homelands	75%
Prussia	North German	Kingdom		Brandenburg Pomerania West Prussia East Prussia Lower Silesia Upper Silesia Posen	80%
Punjab	Punjabi	Kingdom		Cultural Homelands	100%
Rajputana	Rajput	Kingdom	Nationalism	Cultural Homelands	100%
Rio de la Plata	Platinean	Empire		Buenos Aires Chaco Patagonia Santa Fe Uruguay Bajo Paraguay Alto Paraguay Mendoza Córdoba Tucumán Jujuy Corrientes	85%
Romania	Romanian	Kingdom		Cultural Homelands	37.5%
Russia	Russian	Empire		Cultural Homelands	75%
South German Federation	South German	Kingdom	Nationalism	Cultural Homelands	75%
Spain	Spanish	Kingdom		Cultural Homelands	75%
Sweden AI countries will not form this country	Swedish	Kingdom		Svealand Götaland Scania Norrland	75%
Tajikistan	Tajik	Grand Principality	Nationalism	Tajikistan Southern Turkestan	50%
Tawantinsuyu AI countries will not form this country	Quechua	Kingdom	Nationalism	Cultural Homelands	50%
Transcaucasia	Azerbaijani Armenian Georgian	Empire	Pan-nationalism	Greater Caucasus Armenia Azerbaijan Kars Elizavetpol	75%
Turkestan	Uzbek Kirgiz Kazak Turkmen Tajik Uighur	Empire	Pan-nationalism	Fergana Uzbekia Kirghizia Chorasmia Merv Southern Turkestan Tajikistan Turkmenia Syrdarya Ili Tarim Basin Dzungaria Semipalatinsk Akmolinsk Aktobe Uralsk	40%
United Baltic Provinces	Latvian Estonian Lithuanian	Grand Principality	Pan-nationalism	Cultural Homelands	100%
United Netherlands	Dutch Flemish Walloon	Empire		Holland Flanders Wallonia Friesland Gelre	100%
Uzbekistan	Uzbek	Grand Principality	Nationalism	Fergana Uzbekia Chorasmia	66%
West Indies	Afro-Caribbean	Kingdom		West Indies Jamaica	100%
Yemen	Yemenite Bedouin	Kingdom		Yemen	100%
Zimbabwe	Shona Nguni	Kingdom		Zambezi	75%

Formation event

Most countries receive an event the first time they are formed, or reformed for those that exist at the start. Certain countries have a special event, while the rest receive a generic event.

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[Country Adjective] Unification

[Country] has emerged as a rising power in [Capital Strategic Region].

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A new day dawns, and a new nation rises to the world stage. [Country Adjective] glory is the inevitable future.

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Is triggered by: Forming a country

Trigger conditions: Is none of the following:  America Arabia Brazil Byzantium Carolina Central America Central Europe Confederation of the Rhine Danubian State Ethiopia Federation of the Andes Free States of America Iberia India Indonesia Italy Germany Gran Colombia Kazakhstan Laos Mali Peru-Bolivia Rio de la Plata Scandinavia Turkestan United Baltic Provinces United Netherlands Yemen Yugoslavia

A glorious union. Adds modifier National UnifierNational UnifierCountry modifier +25 Prestige for 20 years Gain  claims on all unowned homelands of primary cultures If all homelands are already owned or claimed, Instead 5% of pops become more loyal

References

1. Formable countries are defined in /Victoria 3/game/common/country_formation/00_formable_countries.txt
2. Major unification countries are defined in /Victoria 3/game/common/country_formation/00_major_formables.txt and with is_major_formation = yes
3. Diplomatic plays related to unification are defined in /Victoria 3/game/common/diplomatic_plays/00_diplomatic_plays.txt with dp_unify or dp_leadership as their prefix