Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

Realistic & Immersive Country and Faction Names
141 Comments
PannedFish May 2 @ 2:08am 
make Libya be called "Senusiyya" When Neutral And Independent. (The Senusi Monarchy)
PannedFish May 2 @ 2:08am 
Hello
David Jan 6 @ 10:05am 
Could you change the "German Reich" to the "German Empire," please? It's annoying when I know they mean the same thing.
Petoxeye Nov 10, 2024 @ 4:24am 
Oh, right :)
CSRZ  [author] Nov 10, 2024 @ 1:22am 
Austrian names are going to be changed with the release of the newest DLC.
Petoxeye Nov 9, 2024 @ 4:28am 
Could you make fascist austria's name just be "Austria" instead of "German Austria"? i think its really unnecessary and confusing for such a small country, even when they aren't a german puppet, for consistency!
Sunbreeze Sep 30, 2024 @ 6:15pm 
Is this mod only for the English version of the game?
Imperial Stormtrooper Jul 6, 2024 @ 11:30am 
The Brazillian Focus Tree "Re-establish the Empire of Brazil" doesn't change the name of the Country to the "Empire of Brazil".

Now thats only a minor thing but could that be fixed?
CSRZ  [author] Apr 14, 2024 @ 11:57am 
Why TF would I do anything and change anything at all?

But honestly:
Communist International was only the alliance of communist parties - not a formal alliance of any kind between nations like "The Axis", "The Allies", "NATO" etc. I would even say that "The Allies" or "The Axis" aren't any formal/official names as well.

I needed an immersive name that covers The Soviet Union and all of it's satellite states including Mongolia, Tanu Tuva and later Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria etc. thus "the Soviet sphere of influence". It was never supposed to be any kind of formal alliance name.
czy407 Apr 13, 2024 @ 10:36am 
Why TF would you change Comintern to Soviet Sphere?

I know that Comintern was dissolved in 1943, but:

1. At least Comintern existed. There was NO SUCH alliance called the Soviet Sphere - the closest I can find is the informal term 'Soviet bloc' and that's Cold War era. So, you call this name 'realistic' and 'immersive'!?
2. Comintern was dissolved in 1943, which is considered late game. In most of my games, WW2 ends by 1941-1942 and all 7 starting majors are dead by then.

I just realised it when looking at the score screen, and it's killed my immersion.

Worst part is, modifying your mod's files cannot change the name now, once at game start the name is fixed, its fixed forever, unlike country names which can be modified on the fly.

The visual aspect of my run is ruined now. And I'm rightfully mad.
CSRZ  [author] Mar 29, 2024 @ 9:51am 
@TheIndian_07
fixed
TheIndian_07 Mar 29, 2024 @ 4:17am 
Just wanted to report a spelling error: Falangist Spain is called the 'Spainish Empire' instead of the 'Spanish Empire'.
Kriegsmarine Mar 25, 2024 @ 8:49am 
Thanks man and keep up with this great collection of mods!
Zandrus Mar 12, 2024 @ 1:28pm 
Thank you brother, I will credit you in the mod descriptions, and since I am a first timer modding (besides loading tips), perhaps you can link me to tutorials to how I set up the files for the mods for the political parties and the country and faction names!

Thank you, CSRZ!
CSRZ  [author] Mar 12, 2024 @ 12:03pm 
I didn't have much time to look at new formable nations yet. I will include them in all of my mods, but this will take time of course.

This mod's purpose is to simplify country names and make them more immersive. In my opinion no one would call a country "Federal Soviet Republics of Rio de la Plata" instead of "Rio de la Plata". For example it's the same with "Uruguay" (no one in the world during the normal conversation or when including it's name on the map is calling it by it's official name "Oriental Republic of Uruguay").

If you're making your own separate mod then feel free to use all of my assets from whatever mod you like. I've uploaded them in here so everyone can use them as they please.
Zandrus Mar 12, 2024 @ 9:42am 
Of course, if you allow me, I could make a seperate mod, with credits to you, and do my own edits to it.
Zandrus Mar 12, 2024 @ 9:31am 
I saw the name "Confederate League" for LGF (is it the Uruguay Formable?), which in that case, doesn't make sense, it should be "National-Socialist League", while "Socialist League" in file should be "Soviet League" due to Eugenio Gomezs' pro-Stalin approach.
Zandrus Mar 11, 2024 @ 10:32am 
Perhaps "Reichland Rio de La Plata would make sense"
Zandrus Mar 11, 2024 @ 10:26am 
Uruguayans formable as la Liga Federal changes its name to Uruguay when it becomes Fascist.

Liga Federal can be "Federal League"
Fascist Federal League can be "Reichkommisariat Rio De La Plata"
Communist Federal League can be "Federal Soviet Republics of Rio de la Plata" or "Federal Soviet Republics"
Democratic Liga Federal is same as nonaligned Federal League
General CIS Jan 23, 2024 @ 8:33am 
Yeah you’re right but for example if I puppet as Italy Albania, Serbia and Croatia they doesn’t have Italian near their name
CSRZ  [author] Jan 19, 2024 @ 9:09am 
@General CIS
I can do it - but this will also change a majority of puppets names: so no more British India, Dutch East Indies etc.

Right now it works like this:
integrated puppet: "<adjective> <country name>"
puppet: "<adjective> <country name>"
dominion and higher: "<country name>"

I may also change it, so that only integrated puppets (but not puppets) include the adjective in their name.
General CIS Jan 18, 2024 @ 8:57am 
Montenegro as Italian puppet it’s called Italian Montenegro, can you change it into just Montenegro?
EBOW-VARNA Jan 12, 2024 @ 4:44am 
L mod
CSRZ  [author] Nov 2, 2023 @ 3:30am 
I did change it to "Spanish Empire" and "Ostland".
Blizzard Nov 1, 2023 @ 7:53pm 
Is there a chance that you could rename Latvia's Ostland focus tree name back to Ostland so it isn't Baltic Union?
General CIS Oct 11, 2023 @ 11:48pm 
Can you rename Spain into Spanish Empire when you do the Falangist spain route like in vanilla? Because if you make the fifth Empire as Portugal it is renamed Portuguese Empire, or you can rename both Greater Spain or Greater Portugal since doesn’t have both an Emperor
CSRZ  [author] Oct 11, 2023 @ 2:15pm 
Update is in.

Simplified names only. People's Republic of China is still China. Nationalist Spain is still Spain. Vichy France (or State of France) is still France and so on.

I regret that the engine limitation makes it impossible to implement separate long and short names - or even better - to only show long/official names on the map during the civil war.
Mauricio2427 Mar 15, 2023 @ 11:22am 
I've noticed that fascist Thailand with this mod is called "Kingdom of Thailand" instead of just "Thailand" or "Siam"
<#FF69B4>Robin ;3 Feb 20, 2023 @ 6:24pm 
just wish there was a sub mod which was just the faction names, could you please make it so mod Dev.
<#FF69B4>Robin ;3 Feb 20, 2023 @ 6:12pm 
I know I don't have to use this mod, but for example the People's Republic of China to just China.. and Vichy France to just France. Kinda ehh..
Jesse Jan 26, 2023 @ 11:41am 
Thats not the historical name though
George F. Breathless Dec 26, 2022 @ 3:16am 
Why not just Germany? I doubt people were constantly saying "German Reich" instead of just "Germany" back then when talking about the country.
AshtheBoss0326 Nov 20, 2022 @ 3:24pm 
Bro long names is realistic. "Mexico" is not the realistic offical name of mexico during ww2. But "United Mexican States" was.
Petoxeye Nov 3, 2022 @ 11:20am 
@CSRZ Czechia called "Czech Republic" even though they're fascist
Petoxeye Oct 22, 2022 @ 11:25am 
@CSRZ Italian fascist puppet of slovenia called "Ljubljana" even though they don't own the province of ljubljanja
T_Rex_Patriarch Oct 18, 2022 @ 3:55pm 
Can you change Soviet Union name's to "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" ?
Gustav Kuriga Oct 16, 2022 @ 9:20am 
Where do I find the puppet names? I'm seeing German Romania and German Greece without the mod and I don't like it. Currently Imperial Germany.
CSRZ  [author] Oct 5, 2022 @ 12:13pm 
@General CIS
noted
General CIS Oct 5, 2022 @ 3:45am 
@CSRZ Yeah is without emperor, but Portugal too have Portuguese Empire and hasn’t got an emperor, if you proclaim Fifth Portuguese Empire, maybe you can Rename both Greater Portugal and Greater Spain
CSRZ  [author] Oct 3, 2022 @ 12:42pm 
@Petoxeye
Will be fixed in the next update.
CSRZ  [author] Oct 3, 2022 @ 8:06am 
I decided to remove naming countries via their overlord - seeing stuff like "American Italy"/"Chinese Japan" or "Soviet Czechoslovakia" etc. is really weird - they would never be named like that on the map in real life.

I'm currently working on an update to fix these.
CSRZ  [author] Sep 30, 2022 @ 12:49am 
I could, but why? It's hardly the Empire without an Emperor.
General CIS Sep 30, 2022 @ 12:14am 
can you rename falangist Spain into Spanish Empire?
CSRZ  [author] Sep 28, 2022 @ 1:17pm 
Alright - update is done.
Jouk_ Sep 12, 2022 @ 4:40pm 
will this mod work with other languages?
Phrog Jun 10, 2022 @ 2:32pm 
UK should be called, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northen Ireland. France should be the French Republic, Soviets should be Union of Soviet Republics. the United States should be the United States of America, sorry if this is a lot but these are some of the main reasons why I'm looking for immersive names mods
CSRZ  [author] May 17, 2022 @ 12:38pm 
@randchez
Yeah. The name should be visible now.
randchez May 16, 2022 @ 9:41pm 
CSRZ it's still Germany are you sure that you added it to the correct thing? It's the one in the Restore the Kaiserreich focus tree in the Oppose Hitler.
randchez May 16, 2022 @ 9:29pm 
Thanks CSRZ
CSRZ  [author] May 16, 2022 @ 4:19pm 
@randchez
German Empire was added.

The rest is impossible to implement. Only one country name per one cosmetic tag is possible.