Change Culture & Religion

This mod allows you to change your nation’s accepted cultures, by giving you the ability to add new accepted cultures or to remove existing ones. Furthermore, it allows you to change the national faith, even outside of your religious group. If a subject does not share your religion or primary cultures you can force them to. Alternatively, you can promote your primary cultures and national faith in your subject more peacefully. Finally, you can remove homelands that are not of your primary cultures. Characters will convert to the new national faith, and the devout interest group will be customized to reflect the change in religion. You can now truly customize any nation to fit YOUR intended playstyle.

Remove any non-accepted homelands from a state via the ‘Cultural Primacy’ decree. The duration of this decree can be customized, read below in the ‘Game Rules’ section.

Using the Enforce Values diplomatic action, if you and your subject are both at peace, not in a revolution, have good relations, and differing culture or religion, you can enforce your national values onto them. Do note that this will give a 5 year truce, a -50 relationship hit, and give you 5 points of infamy.

The Cultural Exchange diplomatic action has the same requirements as Enforce Values, but doesn’t remove the subject’s original primary cultures, but only adds those of your own, and changes their national faith. This has the added benefit of a shorter 3 year truce, and only 3 points of infamy. Your relationship with the subject will, however, take the same -50 hit.

After changing your state religion, your pops will begin to convert to the new faith. Your country’s characters, including the ruler, will also convert, with at least 1 character per month converting to the new faith. Changing the culture of characters is not supported by Paradox at this time.

The devout interest group is customized to reflect the change in faith.

Devout IG List:

• Animist – "Pagan Shamans", Pious, Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Catholic – "Catholic Church", Pious, Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Catholic(Papal States) – "Roman Curia", Pious, Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Gelugpa – "Vajrayana Monks", Pious, Buddhist Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Hindu – "Hindu Priesthood", Pious, Hindu Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Jewish – "Rabbinical Council", Pious, Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Mahayana – "Mahayana Monks", Pious, Buddhist Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Mahayana(Japan) – "Buddhist Monks", Pious, Buddhist Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Mahayana(Great Qing/Korea) – "Confucian Scholars", Confucian, Patriarchal*
• Oriental Orthodox – "Oriental Orthodox Church", Pious, Moralist, Oriental Orthodox Patriarchy
• Orthodox – "Orthodox Church", Pious, Moralist, Orthodox Patriarchy
• Orthodox(Russia/Orthodox Russia subject) – "Orthodox Church", Pious, Moralist, Russian Orthodox Patriarchy
• Protestant – "Evangelical Church", Pious, Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Protestant(USA) – "Evangelicals", Pious, Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Protestant(Heavenly Kingdom) – "God-Worshipping Society", Pious, God Worshipper, Patriarchal*
• Protestant(Sweden/Protestant Sweden subject) – "Church of Sweden", Pious, Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Protestant(Hawaii) – "Christian Missionaries", Pious, Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Protestant(Great Britain/England/Protestant GBR subject/Protestant ENG subject/current or past subject) – "Anglican Church", Pious, Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Shi i te – "Shi’a Ulema", Pious, Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Shinto – "Shinto Monks", Pious, Shinto Piousness, Patriarchal*
• Sikh – "Sikh Priesthood", Pious, Sikh Militancy, Patriarchal*
• Sunni – "Sunni Ulema", Pious, Moralist, Patriarchal*
• Theravada – "Theravada Monks", Pious, Buddhist Moralist, Patriarchal*

* Human Rights laws such as the Rights of Women will change Patriarchal to Modern Patriarchal if Women’s Suffrage is passed.

CCR Modifier Duration:

• Arcade – Make changes as often as you want with no negative modifiers.
• Shorter – Minor changes are 1 year, while major changes are 3 years long.
• Default – Minor changes are 3 years, while major changes are 5 years long.
• Longer – Minor changes are 5 years, while major changes are 10 years long.

Cultural Primacy Duration:

• Shorter – Decree takes effect after 1 month.
• Default – Decree takes effect after 1 year.
• Longer – Decree takes effect after 5 years.

• English
• Polish – Thanks, Froozigiusz
• Russian – Thanks, REMOVER

At the moment, only the English, Polish, and Russian translations are available. However, most of the menu options are directly taken from Paradox concepts and other localization entries, and thus should automatically be translated to your language set in the game settings. Please submit your translations in the discussion board topic ‘Translations.’