Well, this is (slowly) moving forward: Rwanda is kinda on hold until I figure how to make it distinct from earlier Uganda and (later on) Burundi.
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I'm also not happy with the Russian color scheme: standard Russian imperial is a bit too close to the Spain color, and in any event I want this to be a constitutional monarchy, which doesn't quite fit the regular "republican" color either (and the present Russia color being labelled as "Republican" in the TOASTR system bugs me, since it lumps together actually democratic alt-Russias with the current strongman dominated kleptocracy). I went with an "other Russia" color, but I don't really like it either. Suggestions?
> Portugal Wank
> Visible Native states in southern Africa that didn't get subdued into the mighty Luso-Draka
> Doesn't control the Persian gulf coast for that sweet oil
> Not controlling every islands it discovered like Reunion/Mauritius
> Nothing in the Canadian Maritimes/Newfoundland despite it being the location of one the first portuguese settler colony, and the first in continental north america
> Macau being this small
> No Rio Muni it claimed before being ceded to spain
> Not all of French Guyana it owned during the Napoleonic war
> Not controlling all of antarctica by virtue of controlling Argentina-Brazil, South Africa and Australia
> Not controlling the suez region, to be able to build the canal and be able to control the Mediterranean-Indian trade when the Cape of good hope route becomes obsolete
> Not controlling the Phillipines by virtue of Magellan discovering it
> Acehnese somehow beating the Portuguese and taking Pacem from them
> State of North India being so thin and not thicc like the Portuguese Malabar coast
> Not controlling the Nile Delta to dab on the Mamluks
> Not controlling Lagos, which was named after an important portuguese Port
> Not vassaling the Benins and the pesky Ijaw in and around the niger delta to t a k e a l l t h e s l a v e s a n d o i l
> Not controlling Socotra and saving the Christians there
> Not colonising Barbados which Portugal claimed IRL
> Not controlling the entirety of the Amazon bassin, conceding part of it to
Spaniards
> Not vassaling britain to make them pay for centuries of humiliation
> Implying the portuguese wouldn't take some of the bengali coast when they've gotten this far in india
> Tristan da Cunha, Ascension islands not being portuguese despite them discovering and naming the islands
> Not being a sebastianist and not having portugal control the entire north africa coast and then the holy land
yeah i think that could be better
In doubt just paint the southern and eastern halves of the map green tbh