[quote=@Letter Bee]
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Oh, in this case, I wrote up the IC post draft [i]before[/i] you joined. But in said draft, and present IC post, I implied that the British made Sarawak a direct colony by buying it from [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Vyner_Brooke]the reigning Rajah[/url], which in turn was opposed by [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Walter_Dayrell_Brooke]his Crown Prince[/url]. This happened IRL after World War II, but in my headcanon (which again, was established before you took an interest in Britain), it happened earlier and the British paid less because of their losses in the Great War, making it extortionate.

But if you want, we can retcon it; again, I was acting before you joined, and drafted the post before I knew you were interested in taking Britain.
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Nah it's good by me. I've been told I couldn't have kept those colonies anyway so this creates a good history I can work with as to why they inevitably broke away.