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>nooo hundreds of thousands of artisans can’t exist in a single province
>meanwhile in memegame2:
>ah yes, 1862, the bustling global hub of… cootbus
>248,000 sorbian artisans rise at dawn to hammer shoelaces into full-rigged clippers
>daily output: 37 dreadnoughts, 500 violins and 9,000 experimental trousers with extra buttons
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>spree river now clogged with 800 unfinished man-o-wars, which immediately despawn and reappear in london because they are part of british bureaucrats’ luxury diet
>prussia’s prestige +100 for “world’s largest inland navy”
>austrian spies report that cootbus GDP has surpassed vienna’s entire economy through artisanal button exports alone
>british investors describe it as “the venice of mud” and open a stock exchange entirely for shoelace futures
>cootbus artisans also diversify: half of them secretly produce grand pianos, the other half make porcelain thrones, all sold directly to parisian salons via teleport wagon
>by 1870, every european monarch sits on a sorbian toilet, prestige modifier “comfort of lusatia” +25