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Hey Captain, want to be a main colony? Your rolls are absolutely perfect for it, down to the tiny hereditary army, just like the Princely states.
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I think that might be a good idea. I was considering being a former colony ruled by an ethnic minority (settlers, I suppose) who are most certainly not the natives and who exert their will via the relatively competent military.