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KSRE - Kovas' States Rework: Expanded

Available for the 1.16+ Update!

Kovas' States Rework: Expanded is a continuation mod of the original KSR which brings back with it many previously removed fan-favorite features, such as state renaming and custom subjects. Players will now be able to restore certain historical borders, bend territory alongside natural barriers like rivers and make use of underlooked landmasses. Among new states that were implemented, a significant amount of vanilla states have also been changed and improved.

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Version 2.0.01 - August 5th, 2025

590+ new states in:
Austria, Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, British Malaya, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Japan, German Reich, Guatemala, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Manchuria, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Iraq, Italy, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Yugoslavia.

• Automatic state and town renaming for many locations mostly across Europe.
  
• Entirely new world map based on the Mercator Projection.
  
• Large amount of towns (victory points) added.
  
• Lots of new puppet/subject nations for Germany, Austria-Hungary, Japan and more.
  
• Fully custom subject management system that allows extending territory, switching capitals or dismantling the subject altogether.
  
• Ability to change the flag for Austria-Hungary, German Empire, Russian Empire and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  
• State transferring (i.e. transfer Transnistria to Romania, Karelia to Finland or Sakhalin to Japan).
  
• Berlin, Moscow, Istanbul and Paris can be split into two if they are owned by different countries.
  
• Custom political decisions (i.e. decision to rename Siam to Thailand in 1939).
  
• Many custom KSRE game rules.

• Certain inaccurately displayed vanilla flags corrected.
  
• Rhineland DMZ territories.
  
• Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact partition of Poland.
  
• 1941 borders of Germany.
  
• West-East German territories, including partitioned Berlin.
  
• Peruvian-Ecuadorian contested territories.
  
• Polish-Lithuanian contested territories.
  
• German Empire 1914 borders.
  
• Austria-Hungary 1914 borders.
  
• Ottoman Empire 1914 borders.
  
• Axis occupation of Yugoslavia.

The old vanilla map used for KSRE will not be returned. It is simply not a good map to work on as it is very disproportionate to actual world maps, mainly due to Paradox's optimization efforts. An independent vote suggested that those who prefer the old map are in a very small minority, so the return of the vanilla map will not be considered. However, those who want to play KSRE on the old map may do so by redirecting to the "Discussions" tab and checking out the "Legacy Versions" page where the previous version of the mod is available for download.

I acknowledge that the new map is a shock to many and it may look unusual, however it is actually a better portrayal of the world map as it is a 1:1 replica of the Mercator Projection (the most popular flattened portrayal of the world and the exact version found on Google Maps). The old vanilla map was disproportionately stretched sideways with a lot of misplaced landmasses (South America etc), but a lot of us have gotten used to it over the years, which is why some places now look uncomfortably stretched.

Updates are not being released on a fixed schedule. I update the mod whenever I have the time and motivation personally. Pressing updates such as critical bug fixes can be expected more often.

This is a go-to check for mod conflict. KSRE has absolutely no bugs in terms of the Rhineland as it was tested over several years, which means you are running additional mods that affect focus trees.

KSRE is a base map mod, which means that compatiblities should not be initiated by me but rather by the author of the other mod in question. I am, however, fully open to the idea of modders making compatiblity mods for KSRE.

The mod currently only supports English localisation as this is the only language from the game that I know on a C-level basis. However, submods for KSRE translations into various other languages do exist on the Workshop.

This is because KSRE needs to be played on a brand new save. For example, loading vanilla save games with KSRE creates conflict.

M.B. Kovas - Creator & Head Developer
Alora - Designed flags for Romanshia and the Tianjin City State.
Subscribers - Reporting bugs and giving great suggestions.