Patched to 1.03 and started a new game as France. Sometime in the early 1850s there was an Irredentist rebellion which made it such that every area in France (plus Nice and Savoie) has 10% rebel loyalty, with 40% in Paris. There seems to be no way to affect this so I figured this must be changed by ...

An annoyance I am currently having with a 1.02 game as Japan is over Steam Trawlers. It is 1865, and I've developed the industrial economy a fair amount. I didn't fill in all the fish resource slots because the demand was such that there was no need to do so. Suddenly however, fish demand is way up ...