[07/Dec/2024] Revamped Country Tool - Potential Breaking Changes!

It's been a long-time-coming. The country creator tool has finally had a much-needed update to better work with the game.

The country tool was first created in 2019, and a lot of the code was written for the game as it was back then. But over the years much has changed, and the country tool was never updated. As such, it has been the first tool to be properly modernised.

You can find a full changelog of the changes on the Community Discord server, but here's a brief overview:


The country creator has been rewritten from the ground-up, and you will notice that the style of the tool has changed drastically.

For those who have been having errors on start-up of the game due to states, this update should fix these errors.

The updated tool removes all character-based interactions in the game, instead referencing the data from the new character creator tool

These changes mean that you can create a character and have them available in multiple countries/roles within the country with ease; think Leon Trotsky being available as a leader for the USSR, Mexico, etc. or how Miklos Horthy can be both a country leader and admiral for Hungary.


This does mean that any country leaders, admirals, generals, or advisors will need to be recreated in the Character tool and then re-assign them to your countries.

Unfortunately, due to the way the data for these were saved in the country tool, and the data required of a character, transferring this data over wasn't possible.


Whilst I have tested the tools to ensure they will work. More complex countries than those I have created during testing may have errors occur.

If they do, please post them in ⁠#help-with-countries channel on the Community Discord and include a link to your country and/or a full-page screenshot of the error you get upon exporting. For issues inside of the country tool, please include steps to reproduce.

For character creator errors please use #⁠help-with-other channel on the Community Discord


For those who use a language other than English for your mods please note that the language file for the character and country file exports is now determined via the mod not the individual tools.

To change this, you will need to go to your mod's page and press "Edit Mod" in the sidebar, change your language, and save.

If a mod doesn't have a language set, the website will default language files to English on export.


I have pulled an insane number of hours updating the country tool over the past two weeks to get it where it is today. 

This was originally going to be part of a much larger project for 2025. However, life circumstances meant I was unsure on my availability at the start of 2025, and the game's recent update breaking a lot of things meant that I couldn't leave the country tool potentially months without some of the much needed fixes.

I dont like this new design it also deleted everything i had

Thx! Really great that youre still updating!

great wokr! keep it up

Wow! It's so fresh!

# Faction

create_faction = "1"

add_to_faction = 1


# Military Access

give_military_access = 1


# Guarantees

give_guarantee = 1


is annoying af

W's for you!

i like the old design better

flags are still exported upsidedown for some reason :/

Hey i want to add my custom traits to a ruler or advisor but I cant do that anymore!