Institution

Global Trade

global_trade

Goods have been moved across continents since antiquity. But where this was previously limited to a set number of routes and and specific goods, such as the manufactured products from India and China finding their way across the Indian Ocean and along the Silk Road, trade is now increasingly becoming part of a greater world network. With the discovery of the Americas, establishment of sea routes around Africa, and the crossing of the Pacific Ocean, local trade networks are being woven into a single, interconnected, world-spanning web.

Silver mined in the Andes is now being shipped via Europe all the way to China and India, Iron mined and wrought in Scandinavia is being sold in Western Africa by English merchants, and others are making a fortune just by distributing Cloth and spices to traders from South East Asia. Merchants in India are even investing in future European trade ventures! It may still be early to speak of a truly global economy, but surely the first seeds have been sown.

Can spawn

At least one of

All of
- Has game rule: Random City
- Location Rank: CityorMegalopolis
All of
- Has game rule: Historical
- This: Lisbon
All of
- Has game rule: Dynamic
- - Has Banking
  - Has New World
  - At least one of
    Continent: Europe
    Subcontinent: North Africa
  - Is a Market Center
  - Location Rank: CityorMegalopolis
  - MarketTraded > 500 Ducats in goods last month
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Exact conditions

How it spreads

Into a location

From friendly neighbouring locations	average_location_literacy × 0.0375
From any neighbouring location	average_location_literacy × 0.005
Through imports	development × 0.01 + average_location_literacy × 0.025
Through exports	development × 0.01 + average_location_literacy × 0.025
To locations in the same market	average_location_literacy × 0.012
To the market centre	1
To the capital, once the country has embraced it	average_location_literacy × 0.025
Where it could have appeared	institution_spread_from_was_possible_spawn_mid
Control scaling, once the owner has embraced it	2
Chance to be promoted	Depends on conditions

Institution Growth speeds up all of these: Institution Growth (in the location)Institution Growth (country-wide)

Through diplomacy

Each month, countries send the institutions they have embraced to their partner's capital.


Sharing Knowledge	To the country receiving it	0.5
Reined in Junior Diplomacy	To the country receiving it	0.5
Colonial Nation	Both ways	0.5
Conquistador	Both ways	0.5
Dominion	Both ways	0.5
Fiefdom	Both ways	0.5
Member of the Hansa	Both ways	0.5
March	Both ways	0.5
Pradhāna-Mahā-Sāmanta	Both ways	0.5
Secessionists	Both ways	0.5
State Bank	Both ways	0.5
Trade Company	Both ways	0.5
Appanage	Both ways	0.3
Agitate for Liberty	To the country receiving it	0.2
Alliance	Both ways	0.2
Officers Sent	To the country receiving it	0.2
Direct Imperial Free City	Both ways	0.2
Familial Governor	Both ways	0.2
Imperial Free City	Both ways	0.2
Mahā-Sāmanta	Both ways	0.2
Prónoia	Both ways	0.2
Ṭā'ifa	Both ways	0.2
Tǔsī	Both ways	0.2
Uç Bey	Both ways	0.2
Vassal	Both ways	0.2
Fleet Basing Rights	Both ways	0.1
Sponsorship of Military Order	To the country receiving it	0.1
Strengthened Family Ties	To the country receiving it	0.1
Loyalists Supported	To the country receiving it	0.1
Military Supported	To the country receiving it	0.1
Sāmanta	Both ways	0.1
Tributary	Both ways	0.1