[quote=MrFoxNews] Would a terrorist type organization be okay? [/quote] 17th century didn't really have the national focus we have now or even in the 19th century that made terrorism for political purposes possible. For the most part the peasantry is pretty locally minded. I doubt folks back then had the perspective needed to go off and throw themselves into an anarchist plot. The strongest players in wider respect would be those already in power, the nobility and the like. Though this being the early period of the Age of Enlightenment there'd be a rising Middle Class. But the class difference would probably still mean there'd only be a small group of people with the scope needed to make actual decisions on how the world could be. The actual Enlightenment Movement (as it'd be called in the 19th century) would be pretty small. So feudal ideas in the ruling class and peasantry would be pretty common. Put briefly and coherently: all the people you'd need would be too focused on their farm land and everyone else too small or already in a position of power already that they wouldn't care. Not until the King somewhere was an especially powerful douche. And if this RP's emphasis is on colonies then there'd already be a large amount of autonomy and self-rule in all of them. [quote=MrFoxNews] Prussia shall rise again. [/quote] And Prussia wouldn't even be a thing. Shit, the Kingdom of Prussia isn't even at electorate status in the Holy Roman Empire. The only kingdom in the HRE with electorate status remotely capable would be the tiny-ass kingdom of Brandenburg. But in all THE major player in German politics are the Hapsburgs, who ruling a sizable chunk of the Southern Empire, Austria, Hungary, Romania, and beyond are already the defacto German power. I also think the Hapsburgs by this point would have sealed their power in the HRE as the permanent Emperors but I would need to check on that. [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Europe%2C_1700_-_1714.png/1280px-Europe%2C_1700_-_1714.png[/img] Europe in 1700 This'd be Europe at this time, and Germany wouldn't be a player in New World politics given that they got the Ottomans nipping at the bud and the general politics that is the HRE: which is to say a cluster fuck of irrelevant minor-lordlings.