[@Dinh AaronMk]Then it seems like it's easier to remain a GP in vanilla VicII than in the modded version. What did you end up doing with Portugal? Did you manage to form a United Kingdom of Iberia and kick out the British from Gibraltar?

Ah, the Blue Blob, always the grand enemy. Until the Great Grey Blob appears, then you've got a problem. 

[@Doctoryzer]By no means meant as bum your nation, but I noticed that you stated "Though with states like Japan, who has seen weakening since the depression, and without a U.S. trading with them and a crippled world, the idea of Japanese imperialism is a thing of the past.". Though in real life Japan was hit really hard by the Depression, they still continued their imperialistic ambitions, and would have done so even more with the fall of the US. Why, you might ask? Because with a crippled economy, they had more the reason to let the military fix the problem, which is why they invaded China so many times and then the European colonies in 1941. They needed those external markets and resources under control if they couldn't buy it cheaply on the global market, so in my opinion they would have clung even tighter to their "colonies". 

Phew, that was a lot of ranting, really sorry about that. I just wanted to get it out of my system after having thought about it. Have a still good day.