Europa Universalis 4: Great Game, Zero Stars

Byrne Hobart
7 min readJan 6, 2020

Look at a map of Europe in the mid-15th century, and it’s close-enough but a little funny-looking. Spain is in the right place, though there’s a line down the middle separating Castile and Aragon. France is a bit shrunken, and Germany looks like someone threw up a bowl of Lucky Charms. And right between France and the German blob is, uh, something.

“They’re after me lucky HRRRRNGGGGH”

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Byrne Hobart

I write about technology (more logos than techne) and economics. Newsletter: https://diff.substack.com/