I played Victoria 3 so left that the US got a non-white president 160 years before Obama

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In games by the Paradox studio, real history is often replayed. But with Victoria 3 you can design the world differently. MeinMMO author Schuhmann fell in love with the new strategy game Victoria 3, which was released on October 25th on Steam. He is surprised at the opportunities the game offers to experience an alternate history.

After my fiasco on Saturday, when I accidentally ruined the US economy, I decided to play a new game of Victoria 3 with the United States on Sunday and do everything right.

In my article, I had made myself aware of my mistake in relying entirely on the coal and steel industry.

21 political fields form the bones of a nation

Victoria 3 is not only an economic simulation, but also a society simulator. There are 21 different policy fields in which policies can be established:

  • What trade policy do you follow? Do you levy tariffs or do you rely on free trade?
  • Is there a state religion or is freedom of belief granted?
  • Should bureaucrats be appointed, are they inherited rights or are they elected?

    • If the citizens have had enough, they also make political changes

    Ultimately, these 21 attitudes are the bones of every country: every decision has advantages and disadvantages and different interest groups at play stand for the respective direction:

  • Intellectuals want a basic orientation that is as liberal as possible – industrialists want that too, as long as it means they are doing well
  • The church and the country people want everything to stay beautiful as it is
  • A lot of things don’t matter to the military, the main thing is that the military budget is right
  • Socialists and unions want things that weren’t even heard of in the United States in 1836, such as having scandalous ideas about sick pay, worker protection regulations, or the ban on child labor

    • Depending on how power is distributed in the country, you have tailwind or headwind for political decisions and you need them to transform society.

    MeinMMO author Schuhmann is a passionate strategy gamer and has now spent 70 hours with Victoria 3. He has already played Victoria 2 extensively. He’s a veteran of the Paradox games.
    You can read how Victoria 3 plays as a beginner here at GameStar.

    If the course is overdone, a revolution will break out and states will secede. With this, Victoria simulates 3 historical unrests. The Civil War in the USA erupted over the abolition of slavery. This is also a story that is re-enacted in Victoria 3.

    As you can imagine, it is much easier to change society when people are doing well:

  • If you demand high taxes, for example, the population becomes radicalized – if you demand too high taxes and the economy crashes, the country will blow up in your face.
  • If you lower taxes and raise people’s standard of living, they are happy and become loyal. Then you can politically switch and rule as you want.

    • Victoria 3 in the release trailer

    Wanting to feel like a wise and kind president this time, I did everything I could to make society as liberal as possible. Not so easy in the USA in 1836, when slavery still prevailed.

    In the first 20 years, as President of the USA, you are also busy driving out groups of Native Americans and leading them to a separate reservation, actually a ghetto, in the West: the March of Tears.

    In my USA it should be different:

  • In the parties, I promoted to government the capitalists, who always want relaxation, and intellectuals, who want maximum freedom. I also promoted the Trade Union, which represents workers’ rights.
  • I left the conservative “southern landowners” (principally slave owners), the evangelical church, the military, the bourgeoisie and the peasantry in opposition.

    • Then, in quick succession, I introduced progressive reforms with political support in Parliament.

    The USA starts in Victoria 3 “relatively” liberally, so that there is, for example, freedom of religion and freedom of assembly. In addition, there is a rudimentary right to vote and there are no restrictions on migration.

    But segregation and slavery are still present. Health and social systems do not exist at all. Child labor is part of everyday life and women are initially disenfranchised. So there was a lot to do.

    With the political support of intellectuals and capitalists, I was able to abolish racial segregation as early as 1849.

    Historically, a Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor, was elected president in 1848. He’s also in the game: he’s one of the two starting generals of the United States, along with Winfried Scott, another famous military man of the time.
    There are some historical figures in the game: You start as President Andrew Jackson, the main capitalist is “Cornelius Vanderbilt”, the railroad king.

    A 26-year-old Dakota is at the forefront of the reform movement

    When I introduced the multicultural society and abolished racial segregation, something strange happened: Thahca Kramarae, a 26-year-old Native American, put himself at the head of the interest group “Intelligentsia” and merged with the capitalists to form a new party: the “Free Trade Party”. They are for the abolition of all tariffs.

    The conservative Whig Party dissolved, the union morphed into a Progressive Party, and the rest rallied under the Democrat banner.

    The progressive parties take power in the USA in 1849 – the conservatives are powerless.

    In the 1849 election, Thahca Kramarae’s party won in a landslide victory with about 70% of the vote and the 26-year-old, representing the strongest group, was elected President of the United States in 1849 – 160 years before a Chicago attorney, Barack Obama , was elected the 44th President of the United States in 2009.

    March of Tears ends

    Shortly thereafter, an event fired up: The expulsion of the Native Americans was over, the reservation is being dissolved, everyone can now live where they want.

    Anyone who now thinks that the socialist paradise has now broken out is wrong. After a few years, the conservatives won the election, I had to let the Democrats take power, otherwise the USA would have flown in my face, and liberalization initially got stuck.

    The question remains whether this is all planned with the USA. Paradox has already announced that it will release a first patch that will make it no longer so easy to avoid civil war in the USA.

    Apparently, Victoria 3 should move a little closer to the real story.

    While Victoria 3 usually feels like you’re being forced to re-enact the past and all its savagery, there also seems to be an opportunity to tell a very different story.

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