Stereotypically Accurate Cultural Obsessions
Designed for game Victoria 3 – 1.8.*
Victoria 3 added a quite cool feature – Cultural Obsessions. They are cultural fascinations with certain goods a culture is obsessed with, making the consumption and demand for such good have a double weight.
And only 13 cultures have such obsessions, whilist gaining new ones is quite rare and subject to a bazilion of math, waiting, events and alike. Not only that, but it mostly lacks the ‘meme-y’ part of it. This is why, I created this mod.
It adds quite a lot of stereotypical, almost 100, cultural obsession for various cultures – ranging from the Japanese, American to European.
Added Obsessions:
- Russian:
- Liquor – Vodka is THE vaccine
- Byelorussian:
- Liquor – Vodka is THE vaccine
- Grain – An empire built on potatoes and grain? Count me in!
- Polish:
- Liquor – Piwo to moje paliwo.
- Fruit – Apples. Yes, just apples.
- Ukrainian:
- Liquor – Vodka is THE vaccine
- Czech:
- Liquor – Pivo.
- Slovak:
- Liquor – Pivo.
- Croatian:
- Liquor – Alcohol.
- Serbian:
- Liquor – Vodka is THE vaccine
- Small Arms – How does one unify the Balkans without a gun?
- Bulgarian:
- Liquor – Vodka that I stole.
- Gold – I stole that money. (Thanks to capitalism, it doesn’t work in-game)
- Lithuanian:
- Liquor – Proud member of the National Lithuanian Drinking Group.
- Yankee:
- Liquor – Drinking moonshine under a shining moon (pre-Prohobition, not colourised)
- Oil – Gotta spread democracy and freedom to all!
- Small Arms – AMERICA F*CK YEAH!!! Manifesting MY destiny at the moment!!
- Dixie:
- Sugar – My wife, Queen Sugar, is a good woman, and she makes the best tea for me.
- Tobacco – I like when I, my wife, my son, my dog, and my slaves smoke some of them snuff
- Small Arms – The ‘Southeners’ are quite famous for being good duelists.
- Afro-American:
- Fruit – Watermelons are awesome, especially if grown in your own yard!
- Cotton – The main job for all of those high-skilled sla… I meant workers…
- Small Arms – The Afro-Americans are quite famous for being good shooters!
- North German:
- Liquor – Ich liebe Bier.
- Groceries – Who wouldn’t love some Bratwürste!
- Small Arms – And how do you think all of those, ehm, war deaths, came from?
- South German:
- Liquor – Ich liebe Bier.
- Groceries – Who wouldn’t love some Bratwürste!
- Fine Art – Not only did they love lavish art, but also had the most famous painters!
- English:
- Groceries – Oy mate, doth thou like fish and chips? They are good for thy teeth! (Whatever this could mean)
- Dutch:
- Tobacco- The Dutch not only like to eat marsh dirt, but also get high! Half-legally.
- Danish:
- Liquor – The only drunk vikings were the Danes, surely.
- Irish:
- Liquor – You need to train some Irish yoga to stay sharp!
- Grain – Potatoes, and famine, and alcohol, and alcohol.
- Latvian:
- Grain – Potatoes, poor communist Latvians…
- Romanian:
- Grain – Onions and garlic! Garlic is kinda mid.
- Gold – I stole that money. (Thanks to capitalism, it doesn’t work in-game)
- Hungarian:
- Meat – I LOVE GOULASH COMMUNISM
- Albanian:
- Meat – What do you think happens to all those goats?
- Turkish:
- Meat – Kebab and pure döner is awesome, isn’t it! Who doesn’t love some ane-blasting spicy food?!
- Opium – Back, when Tengri give Türkye opium and döner, Türkye let europe eat opium (??? {Turks used to get high a lot})
- Japanese:
- Tea – Waiter, I’d like some grass in my dirty water!
- Grain – I love rice, rice with salmon, rice with grass, and rice with rice! Rice, my favourite.
- Korean:
- Tea – Waiter, I’d like some grass in my dirty water!
- French:
- Grain – J’aime l’oignon frit à l’huile, J’aime l’oignon quand il est bon… (Supposed to represent onions)
- Breton:
- Grain – Haven’t you heard of the so-called ‘Onion Johnnies’?
- North Italian:
- Coffee – Mmmm… latte macchiato, il mio preferito!
- South Italian:
- Coffee – Mmmm… latte macchiato, il mio preferito!
- Small Arms – I like mafia and to eat vulcanic rock.
- Slovien:
- Wine – Slovenian wine and femboys are so good, like an aged, fine wine… wait…
- French-Canadian:
- Wine – Just like the frog-eaters!
- Galician, Portugese:
- Wine – Oh no, wine floods!
- Scottish:
- Liquor – And who will sell and make all of this whisky?
- Ashkenazi, Sephardic (Jews):
- Gold – I control both your money, your family, and the world. (Doesn’t work in-game)
- Brazilian, Afro-Brazilian, Amhara, Oromo:
- Coffee – I am the Caffeine Empire, and I will make coffee to make more coffee, and then collapse, thanks to coffee.
- Platinean:
- Meat – Sold a lot of cows to the Brits, and a lot as well.
- Liquor – Inherited from German grandparents.
- Han:
- Tobacco – Opium and Tobacco go well together.
- French-Provençal:
- Wine – Just like the French! (WE ARE DIFFRENT)
- Wallonian:
- Wine – Just like the French! (WE ARE DIFFRENT)
- Meat – Brabançons and their chicken are rich folk.
- Bedouin, Misri, Maghrebi, Yemenite, Mashriqi:
- Explosives – Allahu akhbar!! (Thanks to the lack of crime, it doesn’t work in-game)
- Basque:
- Explosives – I will bomb your house (Thanks to the lack of crime, it doesn’t work in-game)
- Norwegian:
- Fish – Fish.
- Swedish:
- Meat – Ikea meatballs and Köttbullar, the only food of the Swedish cuisine.
- Allemanic (Swiss):
- Small Arms – Literal bunker nation
- Gold – THE world bank (Thanks to capitalism, it doesn’t work in-game)
- Finnish:
- Fish, Wood – A whole economy based on fish, alcohol and wood.
- Telephones – A whole economy built with a Nokia 3310
- Flemish:
- Liquor – Drunk bastards.
- Groceries – Who doesn’t like chocolate, waffles and fries??
- North Andean:
- Tobacco – Before they started to burn money, kill each other and smoke weed.
- Inuit:
- Meat – No…
- Sorb:
- Liquor – 100% Slavic, -1% German though!
Added Taboos:
- Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other Mahayana:
- Fine Art – Not only did the Japanese and Korean caused awful memes, but also created awful ‘cartoons’. Proof for fine art to be non-existing there.
- Everything – ✔
- PLEASE do NOT take this mod too into your heart, nor seriously, and it’s goal is not to be harmful (it’s kind of meant to offend everyone though ;p)
If you want to devastate your balkan neighbour, represent an interesting or funny stereotype, or just add something that would be somewhat historically accurate, feel free to ask/give a proposition in the comments!
