It's not even original, it's just Horseshoe theory with a lot of extra crap.
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No, the worst part is the damn ads,
I'd mostly agree with this, with the exception of the capital, you want it in Moscow for that sweet MAPI bonus. Also, be aware that, as a country with serfdom, low literacy and little unemployment, you actually might have trouble getting people into factories. The main culprit is Serfdom, but you can also mitigate it by building in areas that already have large non-peasant populations and by increasing literacy.
You can also get a little bit of iron construction up right away, thanks to the 16 iron mines you start off with.
There's also an exploit you can use if you have Voice of the People. Have the Tsar abdicate, have the new guy become a general, fire all over Landowner generals, then exile your Landowner head. You'll get your new Tsar as the landowner leader, and he's a Market Liberal, so it's trivial to switch to Homesteading/Laissez Faire/Free Trade.
That still leaves the question of how she's "burnt and bodiless" when she later burns her body at the Giant's Kiln.
Kind of, it's probably as complex as Vanilla Eu4, IF you include all the DLCs.
You can also just a lot of things to be automatic, so a lot of the complexity is optional.
Play Eu4, but only with MEIOU 3.0, it's a much more material version of the game.
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ANCIENT REPTILIAN BRAIN - You'll be back in those cold snake skins in no time, sweating up the bed...
LIMBIC SYSTEM - Stinky boy.
Didn't they jump on the Maupin wagon just minutes after his sex crimes were revealed?
If Trains were invented today, they'd be really useful, because we wouldn't have invented Cars either.
All you'd need to get Bruce wearing a Keffiyah is showing him one orphaned Palestinian child.
Living in a heavily industrialised/post-industrial nation is better than living in medieval pastoralism.