Add condensed profiles for all remaining nations (12 medium + 10+ small)

Medium nations:
- Kalmar Union: three-crown confederacy, arms dealer, Vinland colony
- Castile: inland Iberian + Portuguese protectorate + Granada tributary
- Granada: 600yr Muslim survivor, flavor nation
- Morocco: NW African great power, Sunni leader after Tunis fell, Fez as spiritual center
- Grand Duchy of Poland: German puppet, "true Poland", Gdańsk port
- Illyria: Italian vassal, South Slavic nationalism vs Roman integration
- Byzantium: Italian vassal, surrounded, Anatolia claims, "Third Rome" vs Italian "Rome"
- Bulgaria: independent, reduced, Orthodox revival
- Bohemia: Germany's inseparable ally, precision manufacturing, "already succeeded"
- Khoqand: Ilkhanate vassal, Timurid legacy, Chagatai reunification dream
- Eastern Chagatai: tiny Xinjiang remnant, shared Chagatai/Timurid journal entries
- Siam: SE Asian buffer state

Small nations:
- Indian states (Maratha, Deccan, Mysore, Rajput, Sikh) — Scramble for India
- Chinese SE Asian polities (Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines)
- Aceh remnant, Songhai, Australian settlements, various others

Central Asian shared journal entries: Chagatai reunification / Timurid restoration
Total playable nations: ~40+

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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+# Minor & Medium Nations — V3 Start 1836 (Condensed Profiles)
+
+---
+
+## Kalmar Union (卡尔马联盟)
+
+**Government**: Shared-crown confederacy (Denmark + Norway + Sweden, each with own parliament)
+**Capital**: Copenhagen (rotating/shared?)
+**Tier**: 1.5 (Swedish iron industry + arms manufacturing + Norwegian shipping)
+
+**Core gameplay**: Maintain the confederacy. Three crowns, three parliaments, three agendas.
+- **Sweden**: industrial (iron/steel), wants more federal power, resents Danish dominance
+- **Denmark**: agricultural, traditional center, wants to keep leading
+- **Norway**: maritime (Atlantic shipping, Vinland colony), wants Atlantic autonomy
+- **Vinland** (Newfoundland → Nova Scotia): 400+ year colony, cod fishery, timber, growing settler population. Increasingly self-governing. Independence risk?
+- **Arms dealer tradition**: profited from every European war by selling weapons to both sides → military-industrial complex
+- **Finnish border**: ongoing friction with Great Khanate's Northern Ulus (now less intense since Northern Ulus was weakened)
+- **V3 vibe**: managing a three-way marriage where everyone wants a divorce but nobody can afford one
+
+---
+
+## Castile (+Portuguese Protectorate) (卡斯蒂利亚)
+
+**Government**: Monarchy (Pedro I's line — more tolerant than historical Trastámara)
+**Capital**: Toledo or Burgos
+**Tier**: 2.5
+
+**Territory**: Central/western Iberia + "protectorate" over Portugal mainland
+- **Portugal mainland**: under Castilian "protection" since ~1765. Royal family in South America. Portugal-in-Europe = Castilian satellite. Portuguese resent it.
+- **Granada**: STILL EXISTS as Castilian tributary. Last Muslim state in Europe. ~600 years old. Tiny, quaint, culturally significant. Pedro's tolerant line never bothered to finish the Reconquista.
+- **Late to everything**: Portugal got the Americas, Aragon got the Mediterranean, England got the colonies. Castile is an inland agricultural power that missed the boat.
+- **V3 gameplay**: Manage Portugal (integrate? release? maintain fiction?), decide Granada's fate (finally conquer? preserve as curiosity?), late industrialization (Iberian interior lacks coal/ports), try to matter in a world that moved on
+
+---
+
+## Granada (格拉纳达)
+
+**Government**: Emirate (tributary of Castile)
+**Capital**: Granada
+**Tier**: 4
+
+- The LAST Muslim state in Europe. Survived because Pedro I's Castile was tolerant and never needed to finish the Reconquista.
+- ~600 years as Castilian tributary. Alhambra still standing.
+- Tiny (just the historical Emirate of Granada territory). ~500k population?
+- Tourism? (Europeans visiting the exotic Muslim kingdom on their doorstep?)
+- **V3**: Flavor nation. Survive. Maybe try independence if Castile weakens. Cultural events: Islamic art, Alhambra preservation, interfaith coexistence in a world of religious wars.
+
+---
+
+## Morocco (摩洛哥)
+
+**Government**: Sultanate (new dynasty from anti-Portuguese resistance era)
+**Capital**: Fez (after Tunis fell to Italy → Fez became the Sunni world's most important city?)
+**Tier**: 2-2.5
+
+**Territory**: Morocco proper + Western Sahara + Mauritania = all of NW Africa
+- **Sunni Islam's last great independent state** (after Hafsid Tunis conquered by Italy)
+- **Fez**: With Tunisia gone → Fez/Qarawiyyin University may claim the mantle of Sunni spiritual leadership
+- Competing with Italian Empire across the Sahara (Italy holds Tunisia/Algeria/Libya)
+- Defending against Castile/Aragon from the north (Iberian pressure)
+- **Industrializing** (slowly — not Tier 1 but real: military industry, textiles, mining in Mauritania)
+- **V3 gameplay**: Sunni leadership (rally the faithful?), anti-Italian resistance, Saharan expansion (south toward Songhai territory?), industrialization push, defend against Iberian/Italian pressure
+- **Recovered Ceuta** (~1760s): national pride moment, symbolizes resistance
+
+---
+
+## Grand Duchy of Poland (波兰大公国 — German puppet)
+
+**Government**: Grand Duke (German-appointed noble, not Polish)
+**Capital**: Poznań
+**Tier**: 3
+
+**Territory**: Greater Poland (Poznań) + Gdańsk/Danzig (major Baltic port)
+- **German puppet state** claiming to be "true Poland" vs Great Khanate's direct-ruled Poland
+- Propaganda tool: "Real Poland is free, under German protection. The Mongol Poland is slavery."
+- **Gdańsk**: valuable Baltic port, mostly German-speaking. The economic reason Germany holds this.
+- **Poznań**: Polish-speaking, resists Germanization. Cultural heart.
+- **V3 gameplay**: 
+  - Renegotiate treaty with Germany → gain more autonomy → eventually end protectorate status?
+  - Fund/support Polish underground in Great Khanate territory
+  - Develop economy (Gdańsk port → trade hub)
+  - Identity: become truly Polish (resist Germanization) or accept German cultural influence?
+  - If Great Khanate collapses → claim ALL of Poland → reunification
+
+---
+
+## Illyria (伊利里亚 — Italian vassal kingdom)
+
+**Government**: Kingdom in personal union with Italian Empire (King = Italian Emperor's family member)
+**Capital**: Belgrade
+**Tier**: 2.5 (within Italian economic system)
+
+**Territory**: Serbia + Bosnia + Croatia + Dalmatia + parts of Macedonia
+- **South Slavic nation under Italian imperial rule**
+- United identity: no Ottoman division → Serbs/Croats/Bosniaks share identity as "Illyrians"
+- **Core tension**: Illyrian nationalism vs Roman imperial integration
+  - Pro-Roman faction: "being part of the empire brings investment, railways, industry, peace"
+  - Nationalist faction: "we are Slavs ruled by Italians — we want our OWN state"
+  - Napoleon's death → succession crisis → possible independence window
+- **V3 gameplay**: Navigate imperial politics. Build toward independence if empire weakens. Or: embrace integration and profit from Roman investment. The choice defines the playthrough.
+- **NO religious division** (no Ottoman Islamization): Orthodox + Catholic coexist peacefully (historically unprecedented for the Balkans)
+
+---
+
+## Byzantine Empire (拜占庭帝国 — Italian vassal)
+
+**Government**: Empire (Emperor retains title, actually Italian vassal with high autonomy)
+**Capital**: Constantinople
+**Tier**: 2.5
+
+**Territory**: Constantinople + Thrace + Greece + Albania
+- **Revived from city-state** (~1750s Balkan War: recovered Greece + Albania with Illyrian alliance)
+- **Completely surrounded** by Italian territory → cannot physically break free even after Napoleon dies
+- **V3 gameplay**:
+  - **Claim Anatolia**: "Western Anatolia was ours for 1000 years before the Ilkhanate/Italy took it" → Journal Entry
+  - **Expand in Balkans**: opportunistic land grabs if neighbors weaken
+  - **"Third Rome" claim**: Constantinople = original Rome → "WE are the real Roman Empire, not that Italian upstart"
+    → Competing Roman claim with Italy → mostly symbolic but diplomatically useful
+    → "The Emperor in Constantinople has 1500 years of Roman continuity. The Italian 'emperor' has 50."
+  - Manage Italian overlordship: extract maximum autonomy without provoking annexation
+  - Orthodox Christianity: Constantinople Patriarchate = spiritual center for all Constantinople-tradition Orthodox (vs Volga Orthodox schism)
+- **Flavor**: The oldest empire in the world (if you count from 330 AD → 1506 years). Reduced to a vassal but the IDENTITY persists.
+
+---
+
+## Bulgaria (保加利亚)
+
+**Government**: Tsardom (Tsar + noble council)
+**Capital**: Tarnovo or Sofia
+**Tier**: 3
+
+- **Independent** (broke from Great Khanate ~1570s during Northern Ulus coup chaos)
+- Fought the Balkan War (~1750s): LOST territory (Macedonia → Illyria)
+- Reduced but sovereign
+- Orthodox Christian (Constantinople tradition)
+- **V3 gameplay**: Recover lost territory? Balkans are crowded (Italy, Illyria, Byzantium, Great Khanate remnants in Wallachia). Small state survival. Possible alliance with Byzantium (shared Orthodoxy) or Great Khanate (shared enemy: Italy). Industrialization lagging → needs to modernize.
+- **Flavor events**: national revival, literary/cultural renaissance, Orthodox church politics
+
+---
+
+## Bohemia (波西米亚)
+
+**Government**: Constitutional kingdom
+**Capital**: Prague
+**Tier**: 1.5 (per-capita possibly highest in Europe)
+
+- **Germany's inseparable ally** for 470 years
+- Tiny but EXTREMELY industrialized: precision manufacturing, metallurgy, chemicals, glass
+- Silver mines declined (Potosí competition) → successfully transitioned to high-tech manufacturing
+- **Prague**: one of Europe's great cultural/scientific cities
+- Hussite reform tradition → progressive, educated, secular-leaning
+- **V3 gameplay**: Stay allied with Germany (safe but satellite-ish) or assert more independence? Punch above weight through technology/education. Export talent and precision goods. "The Bohemian made it" = quality stamp on machinery worldwide.
+- **Essentially done**: Bohemia is a success story. No major crises. Just: keep being excellent.
+
+---
+
+## Khoqand Khanate (浩罕汗国 — Ilkhanate vassal)
+
+**Government**: Khanate (Timurid dynasty remnant), Ilkhanate vassal
+**Capital**: Samarkand
+**Tier**: 3
+
+**Territory**: Transoxiana (Samarkand, Bukhara, Fergana Valley)
+- Silk Road cities still generate trade revenue
+- Cultural golden age legacy (Timurid architecture, astronomy)
+- Sunni under Shia Ilkhanate overlord → managed tension
+- **V3 gameplay**: 
+  - Maintain autonomy within Ilkhanate system
+  - If Ilkhanate weakens → declare independence
+  - **Journal Entry: "Restore the Chagatai Khanate"** → unite Central Asian territories
+  - **Journal Entry: "Rebuild Timur's Empire"** → maximalist dream (requires conquering Persia, Afghanistan, India) → essentially impossible but provides long-term aspiration
+  - Shared with Eastern Chagatai: both can attempt Chagatai reunification
+
+---
+
+## Eastern Chagatai (东察合台 — remnant)
+
+**Government**: Khanate (Chagatai remnant)
+**Capital**: Kashgar
+**Tier**: 4
+
+**Territory**: Western Xinjiang (Kashgar, Khotan, Yarkand)
+- Squeezed between Song Western Protectorate (east) and Khoqand/Ilkhanate (west)
+- Sunni, Turkic-speaking (Uyghur population)
+- Under heavy Song economic influence
+- **V3 gameplay**: Survive between empires. Same journal entries as Khoqand: Chagatai reunification / Timurid restoration (shared).
+- Probably the smallest and weakest playable Central Asian state.
+
+---
+
+## Timurid-Indian Successor States (帖木儿-印度诸邦)
+
+The Timurid-Indian Empire unified most of India (~1700-1750s) then fragmented after Aurangzeb-equivalent's overextension. By 1836:
+
+**Colonized/controlled by foreign powers:**
+| Territory | Controller |
+|---|---|
+| NW India (Delhi, Gujarat inland) | Ilkhanate puppet states |
+| Eastern coast (Coromandel → Bengal coast) | English East India Company |
+| West Bengal (interior) | English (expanding) |
+| Eastern Bengal | New Song (宣慰司) |
+| Sri Lanka + Maldives | Portuguese (remnant) |
+
+**Independent Indian states** (fragmented interior):
+- **Maratha Confederacy equivalent**: Western/central India. Strongest indigenous power. Hindu.
+- **Deccan sultanates**: Muslim successor states in the south-central plateau
+- **Mysore equivalent**: Southern Indian kingdom. May be industrializing (Song/English technology imports)
+- **Rajput states**: Northwestern principalities. Hindu warrior tradition. Buffer between Ilkhanate puppets and Marathas.
+- **Sikh equivalent?**: Punjab. Possible.
+
+**V3 for Indian states**: Resist colonization. Play foreign powers against each other. Industrialize before being conquered. The "Scramble for India" is this world's equivalent of the Scramble for Africa.
+
+---
+
+## Southeast Asian Polities (东南亚诸邦)
+
+```
+  Siam: Largest independent non-Chinese SE Asian kingdom. Theravada Buddhist.
+        Buffer between Song's Burma/Malacca and British India.
+        V3: Maintain independence through diplomacy (like historical Siam).
+        
+  Chinese settler republics/kingdoms (Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines):
+        Nominally Song. Actually independent. Chinese-governed.
+        V3: small playable nations. Trade, survive, maybe formalize independence.
+        
+  Aceh (remains): Defeated by Song (~1700), reduced.
+        Shia Muslim. Former Ilkhanate proxy.
+        V3: tiny, bitter, wants revenge. Fund by Ilkhanate as tool vs Song?
+```
+
+---
+
+## East African States (东非)
+
+```
+  Ilkhanate East Africa: colonial chain from Sudan to South Africa
+    → Governed as provinces, not trading posts
+    → Competing with Portuguese (Cape Colony) in the south
+    → V3: part of Ilkhanate's colonial management
+
+  Egypt's former East African colonies: status unclear (seized by Ilkhanate during Egyptian revolution?)
+  
+  Swahili city-states: mostly under Ilkhanate/Portuguese/Song influence
+  
+  Songhai (West Africa): may still exist (no Moroccan invasion in this timeline)
+    → Large West African empire. Gold trade. Limited industrialization.
+    → V3: African great power? Or declining?
+```
+
+---
+
+## Australasian Settlements (澳洲)
+
+```
+  Northern/Eastern coast: Song Chinese settlers (largest presence, oldest, ~400 years)
+    → Semi-republican self-governance, acknowledges Song Emperor
+    → Growing: mineral exploration, agriculture, coastal cities
+    
+  Western coast: English + Kalmar settlements (newer, smaller)
+    → Competing for territory with Song settlers
+    
+  Interior: Aboriginal peoples (largely uncolonized)
+  
+  V3: Australia is a CONTESTED COLONY — multiple claimants, no single owner
+  → Song, England, Kalmar all have footholds
+  → The "partition of Australia" is a future diplomatic crisis
+```
+
+---
+
+## Summary: Playable Nations Count
+
+### Major (full profiles): 16
+Italian Empire, Ilkhanate, Egypt, Japan, Korea, Jianzhou, Mongol Khanate, New Song, England, Great Khanate, Northern Ulus, Greater Germany, France, Aragon, Portuguese South America, Burgundy
+
+### Medium (condensed profiles above): 12
+Kalmar Union, Castile, Granada, Morocco, Grand Duchy of Poland, Illyria, Byzantium, Bulgaria, Bohemia, Khoqand, Eastern Chagatai, Siam
+
+### Small/releasable: 10+
+Indian states (Maratha, Deccan, Mysore, Rajput, Sikh), Chinese SE Asian polities (Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines), Aceh, Songhai, Australian settlements, various minor states
+
+### Total playable: ~40+ nations