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How can I find a tunnel to embark on?  And, if they're just hard to get, any suggestions for how to worldgen them?  I mostly use PerfectWorld.

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Looks like Venice moved their capital to the New World (the map closeup says Venice instead of "Venetian North America"). So, little to no chance of revolt.

Yep--which, incidentally, is why they were willing to let me annex Venice after the Japanese marines liberated it.

Who did USA and Louisiana revolt from? Why haven't Venice's colonies revolted yet?

Louisiana broke away from what used to be a far larger Venice while it lost a major war with me.  The USA originally formed from a group of colonies owned by Great Britain (which not only still existed at the time, but was a major power with holdings in Scandinavia, Iceland, and both North America and the Carribean), France, and Aragon in the mid-atlantic and New England.  Austria also picked up something there around that time, although I'm not sure how.  Once it was established, it took over the Cherokee lands to the west, Brabant to the south and in New Brunswick, and Brandenburg in Florida.

Huh, nice. I bet you caused that little fragmentation of China, nice one.

Heh, yeah.  I obviously had a huge navy with a high tech level, but that came at the expense of a tiny army which, for most of the game, was at or below the tech level of my asian neighbors.  As a result, I fought multiple wars with China and Korea where I immediately destroyed their navies and blockaded all their ports, then waited for them to accept "reasonable" terms.  Sometimes they saw reason quickly, sometimes they remained blind until war exhaustion and rebels forced them to.

Huh, another huge Brandenburg. And uh... something purple up in Iceland. Blobby France, of course. A somewhat expansionist Switzerland? And uh... BAVARIAN Scandinavia? That's gotta be a lucky inheritance. No way.

I can't tell, for sure, how Bavaria pulled that off--I don't have any saved games from the 17th century to check.  But in the late 1500s, that land was all Sweden; in the early 18th century Bavaria had about half of that, with Sweden being bisected.  It looks like they did it the old-fashioned way.

And that purple territory is the Vinlandish kingdom of Blåland.  It formed because Gotland managed to colonize the eastern part of Newfoundland, but unsurprisingly was unable to hold onto it.  The rebels then conquered the Venetian western half to unite their island.

Another surprising bit of colonization not pictured: the Sunni sultanate of Tarrbitz, which was formed by Algierian colonists on Hispanolia.  I <3 miscmod.  Also, for some reason (I'm thinking Ottowa was still held by the Huron when it formed?) the official religion of the Canadian monarchy, which mostly formed from Castellian holdings around the Hudson Bay, is worship of the Great Spirit.

Just noticed, looks like the British Isles, that fell from England to Scotland, is about to fall to Wales. lolwut.

in my last game (as japan, so i wasn't involved), Great Britain lost Wales and Cornwall to rebellion, then got completely conquered by an alliance of Scotland, Ireland, and the breakaways.  Eventually Ireland fought and won a war against Scotland went on to dominate the British Isles and become a minor colonial power with a bad-ass navy.

Worldmaps without oceans are far shallower, in my experience.

pic or it didn't happen.

ask and ye shall receive!

The Persian empire at its height.  You can also see Wu and the Sikhs; except for a single blue French colony, nothing in India at that point is controlled by Europe.  Also visible is the enormous Khorasan empire and much of mighty Yeman:
Europe a couple decades later.  Also can see much of the Muslim world.  At this point Morocco was relatively ascendant while the Ottomans were on the downswing, although they retained their Balkan provinces.

The Americas before the Age of Revolution (and immediately after I fixed the bug affecting Portugal:

Moroccanesia and the rise of Wu:

interesting things that happened in the old world (which for the most part I had nothing to do with):
- With few exceptions, the arab world was divided between Morocco (all of north and west africa), the Ottomans (Anatolia, and at its peak Greece and much of Eastern Europe, even a couple colonies in the Baltics) and Yemen (east africa, the arabian peninsula/persia).  One of the more interesting "few exceptions" was Iran--only a couple territories on the Persian gulf, but with overseas empire which at its peak spread throughout the Indian and west Pacific oceans, including Taiwan, Sri Lanka, and some territory in the Russian Far East.  The core of this empire, which remained until the end of the game, was the southern part of modern-day Thailand/Cambodia.  Morocco also colonized much of Indonesia, although those colonies eventually revolted and formed their own nations.
- Bohemia dominated central and eastern Europe.
- China was nearly unified under the banner of Wu, which started off as a single province revolting from Ming.
- India was very nearly united by the Sikh empire of Ahmednagar, which managed to kick out the Europeans in southern India during the peak of its power.  By the game end, though, rebellion weakened it to the point where perfidious Albion was able to retake its holdings.
- Okinawa randomly converted to a European pagan religion otherwise not used in this scenario (it's used in an alt-history-scenario where Christianity is much weaker)
- Portugal was by far the dominant colonizer, possibly due in part to a bug I didn't immediately catch that gave them essentially unlimited money (I went into the save game to fix the treasury and make sure no one else was effected, but some damage may already have been done).  But some of the also-rans were interesting: Norway in Massachusetts, Sweden in Nova Scotia, Catalonia ringing the entirety of Hudson Bay and Naples (which controlled most of the Italian peninsula) and Savoy (which never really expanded in Europe) with scattered colonies throughout the Caribbean and parts of the mainland.

I may set this game down for a while, but I've also been considering trying MEIOU (tried it earlier and it seemed buggy, but I think I've fixed the relevant issues) or playing as the Papal States and going out of my way to be as evil as possible.  Maybe both.