It cannot be taken by another country (Prime grounds for not naming the country "Belarus" and entering a name conflict with "Belgium"). The tag must be three upper case letters. Create a new line somewhere in the block and type a three letter tag.
You can also create an entire new category just for your own nations.įor Byelorus, let's go with # Eastern Europe. The placement of the line does not make a difference for the game files. Find the category that the country you are trying to make best fits into. txt file (NOT THE FOLDER) named "countries". In the Victoria 2 folder, find the folder named "common" and open it.
Let's choose to edit the files in the Victoria 2 folder in program files. Simply hold ctrl and drag a copy to your desktop. It is strongly recommended that you make a back-up. Open up program files (or program files x86) If the game is bought on steam, it is under Steam -> steamapps -> Common -> Victoria 2 if you downloaded the game off of Steam, but if not it will be under the Paradox Interactive folder. Go to My Computer and access your C: Drive. The first step is to find the files you will be editing.