锡克帝国

锡克帝国

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首都：

旁遮普

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政府类型：：

君主制

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主流文化：

旁遮普

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国教：

锡克教

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国家位阶：

王国

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国家类型：

未受认可的主要政权

"The Sikh Empire is in a period of conquest, winning engagement after engagement. But what does the future hold for this empire?"

旁遮普，在游戏开始时称为锡克帝国，is an  unrecognized major power in northwestern India. As a neighbor of both the 东印度公司 and 中国, eastward expansion is difficult.

Punjab is able to form 印度.

Technology

Punjab starts with about half of the era 1 technologies researched.

Production technology	Military technology	Society technology
Prospecting  Steelworking  Distillation	Drydocks  Admiralty  Line Infantry  Artillery	International Trade  Centralization  International Relations  Democracy

Politics

Starting Laws

Power Structure		Economy		Human Rights
Governance Principles	Monarchy	Economic System	Traditionalism	Free Speech	Right of Assembly
Distribution of Power	Autocracy	Trade Policy	Mercantilism	Labor Rights	No Workers' Rights
Citizenship	National Supremacy	Taxation	Land-Based Taxation	Children's Rights	Child Labor Allowed
Church and State	State Religion	Land Reform	Serfdom	Rights of Women	Legal Guardianship
Bureaucracy	Hereditary Bureaucrats	Colonization	No Colonial Affairs	Welfare	No Social Security
Army Model	Professional Army	Policing	No Police	Migration	Closed Borders
Internal Security	No Home Affairs	Education System	No Schools	Slavery	Slavery Banned
		Health System	No Health System

Interest groups

Punjab starts with the Armed Forces  in government. The Landowners, Sikh Priesthood, and Rural Folk are  in opposition. The Intelligentsia, Industrialists, Petite Bourgeoisie, and Trade Unions are  marginalized.

The Sikh Priesthood have the  Sikh Militancy ideology instead of  Moralist, which leads them to favor  National Militia and  Mass Conscription.

Economy

Starting Statistics

Statistic	Starting value
GDP	8.1M
Population	16.2M
Literacy	10.8%
Standard of Living	Struggling (9.5)

States

Punjabi states

Name	Type	Homelands	Region	Arable Land		Resources		State Traits
				Size	Uses
Punjab	36px  36px	Panjabi	North India	650	30px  30px  30px  30px  30px  30px  30px  30px	11	—	30px +20 Infrastructure  30px +20% Agriculture Throughput +20% Plantations Throughput
Kashmir	36px	Tibetan Kashmiri	Himalayas	85	30px  30px  30px  30px  30px	14	12	30px +20 Infrastructure
Pashtunistan	36px	Pashtun	Persia	30	30px  30px  30px  30px	6	—	30px +20 Infrastructure

Industry and resources

Industry

Punjab starts with a small industrial base, including File:Building textile mill.png Textile Mills,  Glassworks, and File:Building arms industries.png Arms Industries, though the last are hampered by a lack of iron.

Resources

Punjab has access to a small amount of coal, but its main wealth in is agriculture, as the state of Punjab has 650  arable land, a +20% throughput boost, and the ability to grow most cash crops, except opium and sugar.

Military

Punjab has the  Professional Army law.

Punjab begins with 100 regular  battalions and 46 conscript battalions available; most battalions use the same set of production methods:  Line Infantry,  Cannon Artillery, File:Method cavalry scouts.png Cavalry Scouts, File:Method standardized infantry.png Standardized Infantry, and  Wound Dressing. 10 regular battalions in Pashtunistan use File:Method infantry focus.png Infantry Focus instead of Cannon Artillery.

Punjab starts with no  flotillas.

Strategy and guides

以下内容为诸多玩家中的一员所给出的，关于锡克帝国的策略建议。请注意，由于游戏的动态机制，这些内容对其他玩家而言可能会以不同的方式展开。

Starting Situation

Punjab is a mix of good and bad. On the bad side, Punjab is landlocked, its official religion is very rare (get ready for radicals from Discrimination), and its initial Taxation capacity is inadequate. On the plus side, its army is passable and most of its neighbors are on the weak side. The in-game territory of Punjab has a massive population, a +20% boost to agriculture, and is very versatile in what crops it can grow.

Grand Strategy

Punjab has a lot of flexibility in how to play the game. Obviously, securing access to the sea should be a major priority, and it usually isn't particularly difficult to do so with its weak neighbors to the south. After that, it can go west to Persia without much trouble. Cutting into the East India company is more difficult, between the British support and all of its vassals, but is more immediately rewarding, as the player can seize the rest of the Punjab territory and the similarly wealthy Delhi territory. A more colony-minded Punjab player could also go to Africa, the Arab states, or Southeast Asia, but will have trouble with the relative naval power of the European majors. A player using Punjab could also attack Western China for Tibet or other provinces, but these are relatively poor and underpopulated.

A Punjab player will have some issues with 俄罗斯 expanding to its north. To counter this, the player can either grab up the Central Asian states themselves, or look into ways to weaken Russia.

Due to the rarity of its official religion, a player should either go for Religious Schools (for high Conversion) or Total Separation (for high tolerance) as soon as possible. Otherwise, the player is setting themselves up for a lot of trouble if they expand. There simply aren't that many Sikhs around. Alternatively, a player could also go simply go for Freedom of Conscience since Hindus are in the same religious group as Sikhism.

Internal Politics

Punjab's laws at game start aren't the worst, but aren't particularly good. Its starting situation favors the Landowners, but is not as blatantly lopsided towards them as some other nations are. Getting the Laws a player wants shouldn't be too difficult as long as the player doesn't push too hard too fast.

Diplomacy

It would benefit a Punjab player to get the British out of India. Punjab is strong enough to not be overrun by the Europeans, but probably too weak to get a good alliance with them. Still, partnerships with Europeans (even if it is just a Trade agreement) are a good thing to get Punjab the goods it needs while it builds itself up economically.

Potential

Punjab is all but guaranteed to be able to generate enormous agricultural wealth. The Punjab territory is arguably one of the best in the game, due to its 20% agricultural bonus with a broad range of crops and a sizable labor pool. Taxation capacity is a problem and will be a problem for some time, but once its sorted the income is substantial for such a small bit of land. If the player is able to secure Punjab and Delhi, it isn't hard for the economic snowball to get moving.

Weaknesses

Punjab is the only country in the world with the Sikh state religion. Depending on how the player handles religion, this could generate a lot of radicalism for a long time. A lot of Indian region has Bureaucracy issues at game start, and Punjab is not exempt from this. While the Punjab province has enormous wealth capacity, a player could be hamstrung by Infrastructure. This includes the costs of building and supplying Railways. Punjab starts behind the European majors in Technology, but its larger population means covering for that is not as painful.

Achievements

An Empire Under the Pun

Starting as the Sikh Empire, subjugate Great Britain