This run explores Japan, explaining how to build up a market and an industrial economy essentially from scratch in the early game under conditions of total agrarian isolation. This will not necessarily be a run focused on reform. We will be making slow, measured changes in the Japanese system without losing sight of or respect for traditional methods of production and governance.
Today we respond to a rising movement to enact Poor Laws by enacting Poor Laws. This will cost us bureaucratically, but it'll be worth it in the long run for the stability that the vast swathe of loyalists will provide the government at what is hoped to be a fairly modest cost. We also engage in a massive university-building project to increase our innovation output while we struggle to develop the necessary iron and tooling industries to support increased economic growth.
Episode Timeframe: July 1841 - December 1944
Recorded in patch 1.4.2 "Irish Breakfast" with all DLC enabled.
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