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Where as something like a custom union partner/protectorate/puppet/dominion can be nice, since they could develop their industry to provide goods to the market.
Or you can build lumber mills since they are faster to bring online then factories to have some guaranteed domestic supply. Plus their 2nd tier PM is earlier in the tech tree, which gives you capitalists as owners when you flip over to it.
If you have enough construction points for full building then a factory can take 23 weeks, a logging camp is 8. So you can build almost 3 logging camps in the time that it takes to build a factory, which on the base PMs employs 5K people so almost 15K workers getting better jobs. This ignoring that you can reduce the number of labours with efficiency techs. Meanwhile a lot of the early industry buildings on the base PMs are only 5K people employed (other then arms industry which employs more people).
Since any job > Peasant > unemployed > welfare unemployed. Because even a simple labour has a wage weight of 1 vs a Peasants 0.2, so if they worked the same building that gave an income of 10 as the base wage the Labour would make 10, Peasant 2. Farmer/Machinist would be 15. Which some of that better income would be captured by income taxes (laws depending). Plus labours would have higher wealth then a peasant, which translates to education access which effects literacy rates.
Really it is a good idea to periodically go though what you are importing from other countries and spam buildings to reduce your dependency on foreign countries. Especially once you start getting into the 500-2K construction point range.
Man I wish you could tell your puppets what to focus on market wise.
Most nations never exploit their own resources.
Look at Africa, full of natural resources...
Local Competing interests disallow for development of local resources or at the least, make it extremely hard and ethically/morally unacceptable. On top of that, local resources, no matter, have to follow market rates or they are not worth developing.
And in most cases the competing interests will always be able to produce resources cheaper.
To counter this in "real world" many natural resources of nations are exploited by 3rd party nations or their corporations, so that it makes local competing interests enslaved and will cooperate more than compete or even be ABLE to compete against the 3rd party nation.
Then there is Russia....
Filled with unexploited natural resources..... Fully dependent on 3rd parties to exploit them, because local competing interests have corrupted the ability to do such. This is proven by the fact that Russia depends on 3rd party nations to obtain the parts necessary to supply the infrastructure to exploit their resources. Not to mention corporations like Mobil and such "lending a hand". =) Their recent corrupt war has spotlighted the fact that they are fully dependent on 3rd parties, the sanctions and subsequent breakdown of their infrastructure and inability to repair is evidence.
Same problem in Africa.
Though Id agree there are places like the middle east who at the time were sitting on plenty of oil or like south east asian islands with all their rubber. Not knowing the value before machinery really took off and then Mr. Europe came knocking.
Because of localized competing interests and the willingness to corrupt the system at the expense of your local fellow human beings.
In order to extract resources there must be cooperation, unfortunately, human greed prevents this at all levels.
Hence why 3rd party's are always better to extract the resource this way it does not start local wars.
A perfect example of this is Standard Oil and Saudi Arabia. Human history is filled with these types of examples.
Blood diamonds of Africa.... PERFECT example of how local competing interests make it impossible for local peoples to exploit their own valued resources.
Because it starts BLOODY wars that last decades and oft times end up involving children because of the greed factor and the willingness to ethically and morally ignore the plight of your fellow human for the want of a piece of the earth. Whether it's a piece that can fit on a ring of your finger or can be plowed with a John Deere tractor.
Corporations have no political or local allegiances, their entire existence is centered on making a profit. Though they embrace human greed, they have no obligation to local people and so, are not a local competing interest.
The only thing left for the local controlling interests to exploit is the power and political base that the corporation supports. Without which, (the corporations will always keep reminding the people.) Would not exist in such lavish luxury and such peace, without the corporate.
And it's happened, MANY times..... Corporations pull out because local warlord becomes WAY to big for their britches and in some cases just SEIZE the corporate or another nice way to put it... "Nationalize it".... War touches off for decades or they end up with a dictator in power that uses the corporate to exploit the lands and resources , pays off the lap dogs that enforce their rule and the country ends up a hell hole. The corporate in many times in these cases have no army big enough to prevent this, unless they get the full weight and backing of a Greater power.
Thought....
The Gold Rush of '49 in California and others in Alaska, was before these places became states, where corporate law was in effect. The US government gave out prospects to local and singular people who then exploited the resources. Mostly independent small timers. All of that gold was too widely distributed and it caused a lot of bankruptcy the more that was dug up.
All those mining towns themselves all had localized competing interests and they were some of the most vile disgusting dirty mean living places you could be on earth.
Corporations lobbied the government to pass mining laws so that it would give them near exclusive access in the future.
All those towns either vanished or they became future cities all cleaned up and such.
It just shows you the power that corporations really have and how they can exploit earths resources once you have non competing interests that are not under obligation to the local people.
A puppet is mostly useful in military matters, i.e. a base for you to reach and attack their neighboring States. With the Puppet State providing some minor military units to support you.
In special cases, having Puppet States is very useful when you can use them to form a bigger Nation/State such as Scandinavia or Germany, without having to annex them first.
you can actually do that.... its just not as direct as you would expect
They really need to expand subject interaction, so for example be able to flag if you actually want puppets to be in your wars or not.
Or a toggle to possibly replace the money they pay to their overlord in diplo fees with them focusing it into building a specific area of their economy instead. Since having a trade off of them giving you less money for them expanding their mining industry to feed your industry would be a nice thing.