Japan Better Ritsuryo

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Author: Brumaire

Last revision: 3 Nov, 2025 at 11:51 UTC

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Description:

This mod improves Japan in several ways to make the base game experience more interesting as a ritsuryo ruler.

# Why

Despite loving the house bloc mechanics, my experience is that playing as ritsuryo gov or kampaku is boring. This is an attempt to fix that AND to make japan admin gov a little closer to the chinese bureaucratic state, mechanic wise (as it is supposed to be basically a budget rip-off of it during heian period ), without denaturing too much the gameplay designed by Paradox

# Translation

Only english is supported but any linguistic contribution is welcomed.

# Compatibility

This mod will be incompatible with anything that touches japan admin governement.

Also, I overrided the scripted trigger that assign primogeniture to historical ruler in order to avoid japan starting with primogeniture due to it having merit flag on.
I’ll try to find another way to to that in order to improve compatibility.

I also modified the condition for chinese legacy track to avoid it being available to japanese dynasties.

# Fixes

– Military administration will properly set succession law to military appointment

# Improvements

– Added merit to ritsuryo (but no mandatory merit level to be candidate)
– Added treasury to ritsuryo (based on meritocratic gov balance)
– Allow governors to turn soryo only if they either are far away or have a strong kook on the throne or the regency, or if the regent has promulgated a law that empowers the bushi (expansion, defense, bandit crackdown)
– Kampaku and Kokushi elections take account of merit level, but are not as restrictive as chinese and meritocratic ones (anyone can candidate to anything regardless of merit rank). Military or civil track is not evaluated for elections either.
– Kampaku candidate with poor merit will have a score malus
– Kokushi candidate with good merit will have a score bonus
– Can set governor vassal salary
– Can set governor vassal developpement
– Tax and title MAA will grant merit clout
– Humility and Service house aspirations provides bonus merit
– In addition to other candidates type, allow any unlanded house head to be candidate to japan governorate (so a player starting as unlanded in japan is a valid appointment candidate)
– The ruling emperor or the retired monk emperor can now move the realm capital

# Known issue

– The general merit candidate score displayed in the UI does not mean anything. This mod use a different set of modified japanese elections for regent/governor/military, therefore does not respect general merit score.
– Meritocratic flavor taking precedence over japan flavor for the concil names

# TODO :
– Merit bonus to some japanese estate buildings
– Merit bonus for japan dynastic legacy