Victoria 3: Charters of Commerce

Build a financial and trade system to enrich your nation and overwhelm your rivals in Charters of Commerce, a new Mechanics Pack for Victoria 3. Charters of Commerce adds more depth and new options to Victoria’s sophisticated trade model, including new ways to regulate company expansion, new diplomatic tools, and new unique goods variants that your nation will be known for.

Features of Victoria 3: Charters of Commerce include:

• Company Charters: grant charters to your nation’s companies to give them an advantage in the cutthroat game of international trade.

  • Trade Charters let companies trade their manufactured goods on the world market*

  • Investment Charters allow companies to establish regional headquarters and invest in foreign markets

  • Colony Charters make it possible for companies to govern colonial regions

  • Industry Charters give companies permission to expand their field of business into other types of production.

• Monopolies: Encourage monopolistic industries in your country, whether it be a highly efficient but costly state monopoly, or a private company monopoly that crowds out competitors in the production of vital goods.

• Diplomatic Treaties: Sign new types of diplomatic agreements, including imposing uneven trade deals and setting limits on colonization.

Prestige Goods: Let successful companies branch out into the production of high quality goods like champagne, establishing your unique cultural imprint on a good type and gaining an edge on your competitors.

*Part of a free base game update.

THE GAME:

SHAPE A GRAND TOMORROW

Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

Highlights

THE ULTIMATE SOCIETY SIMULATOR

• Lead dozens of world nations from 1836-1936. Agrarian or Industrial, Traditional or Radical, Peaceful or Expansionist... the choice is yours.
• Detailed population groups with their own economic needs and political desires.
• Reform your government and constitution to take advantage of new social innovations, or preserve the stability of your nation by holding fast to tradition in the face of revolutionaries.
• Research transformative new technology or ideas to improve your national situation.

DEEP ECONOMIC SYSTEM

• Expand your industry to take advantage of lucrative goods, taxing the profits to improve national prosperity.
• Import cheap raw materials to cover your basic needs while finding new markets for your finished goods.
• Secure vital goods to fuel your advanced economy and control the fate of empires.
• Balance employing available labor force with the needs for new types of workers.

PLAY ON A GRAND STAGE

• Use your diplomatic wiles to weave a tangled global web of pacts, relations, alliances, and rivalries to secure your diplomatic position on the world stage.

• Employ threats, military prowess and bluffs to persuade enemies to back down in conflicts.
• Increase your economic and military strength at the expense of rivals.
• Accumulate prestige and the respect of your rivals as you build an industrial giant at home or an empire abroad.