On independence, Indian cores are still marked as colonial estates.

[crustgi]

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[what-am-i-doing]

Believe this is to represent the fact that they were basically in medieval state and had to work at modernizing (IRL, still in progress); China has this too in CWE and probably in NWO as well.

Realistically most developing nations should be set like this, or as uncivs and with a reworked "westernization" process.

[crustgi]

That is far from reality as you can define it. There is a huge difference between medieval and being a developing country. Even for China, this would be incorrect. India, China, and some other countries are considered newly industrialized as of right now. The is the official terminology.

If you want to penalize newly independent states/non-western states, to prevent them from becoming a juggernaut, implement it using the population literacy since marking states as colonial does not make any sense and is not realistic.

[arandomperson5000]

I think this problem is caused by the fact that the Raj starts out as a puppet rather than a true colony of the UK, thus Indian and Pakistani cores will need to be marked as proper states in the 1946 bookmark to fix this problem.

[what-am-i-doing]

It would be realistic for rural China - even today. Rural China is nowhere near "developing". India is developing now, but was definitely extremely primitive at the game's normal start time.