>memegame2 buffoons be like:
>global event triggered: “the great trousers shortage of 1861”
>effect: -50% clothing supply, +100% consciousness for all pops wearing pants
>britain panicked first, london gentlemen were forced to attend parliament in union jack themed undershirts and socks, causing +2 militancy among aristocrats but also gives +10% jingoism.
>meanwhile in cootbus, "wendehosen" artisans suddenly became the wealthiest class on earth.
>austria responded by banning trousers imports, issuing instead “imperial skirts decree”. consciousness rose by +4 among hungarians, who immediately demanded national trousers autonomy while croats asked if they could just wear curtains instead
>in tuchel, the kaszubs made a bizarre innovation of fish-skin pants. prestige +3, but life rating -10% in affected provinces due to smell
>meanwhile, wiendiszts in galicia demanded cultural trousers autonomy. when ignored, they staged the great trouser secession of 1862, forming the short-lived state of “trousaria” instantly crushed by austria, but the memory lingers as +10% revolt risk in kraków
>ottoman janissaries tried to revive shalwar trousers as national identity, only to discover all cotton had been rerouted to sorbian wendehosen monopoly. the sultan personally wore an onion sack to save face
>meanwhile in copenhagen, danish pops invented “trouserless democracy” giving universal suffrage but requiring all voters to show up without pants. +2.0 migration attraction
>event choice:
>1. subsidize emergency trousers (requires cotton, wool, and coal and costs 10,000£)
>2. normalize wearing skirts (+4 consciousness in all pops named sławomir)
>3. do nothing (demote all pops to “human skin input”)
>ai russia picked option 3
>historians later described this as “a bold modernization policy.”