Their focus is to improve their own status, which they will be trying to achieve by different means, from upgrading your provinces to requesting privileges, to attempting to upgrade themselves to Greater nobles by using their resources. They will add +0.05 autonomy in provinces where they are present, and will mostly appear in rural provinces that are not eligible to be controlled by Greater nobles. In a healthy country, they would generally be considered to outnumber the Greater Nobles. Nobles whose state in society does not allow them to constantly intervene in the matters of state.
While they do seek to advance their interests and clout, they are much easier to manage than the Greater Nobles and are easier to keep under the crown's thumb. The Lesser Nobles Estate consists of nobles in your realm which are marginal in right and priviledge relative to the crown. Thus, if you want to expand your country, you will have to accept that your Corruption will also grow the larger and more autonomy it has, and take measures to prevent high Corruption. For instance: (as of version 2.5) having a privilege that reduces taxes on an Estate's income by 60%, will mean less money for the State but it may also mean that the estate in question is able to build more buildings over time.Įvery Estate will give you corruption depending on their autonomy and privileges. Privileges empower the estates, which in turn allow them to more powerfully benefit your country (if they see fit). Note that privileges are not a uniquely negative arrangement. They will also demand privileges more often the larger your country's population is, as greater distances and a more complex state make it easier for them to leverage their power and influence to gain special advantages. If they are loyal, you can "spend loyalty" to get them to use these monarch points in your favor.Įstates will tend to demand more privileges when they have few and demand fewer privileges the more they have. In the same way that you can spend monarch points to pressure them to act in your interest, they spend monarch points on YOU to pressure you to act in their interests. Aside from having their own treasuries, estates also have their own "monarch points," though specifically only one type. If you play your cards right, you could end up building up a lot of good faith and loyalty among your estates, allowing you to "cash in" during troubled times when you really need them behind you. Unlike vanilla EU4, it is no longer automatically ticks up or down over time, and instead is either gained, lost or "spent" on goodies through events. Their frequency depends on the relative power of that Estate compared to other Estates, which is based on two things: The amount of development they have influence over, and the amount of upper-class population they have influence over, the latter being more important.Įstate loyalty is a measure of how willing the estate is to aid in the nation's government. From time to time, you will get events regarding an Estate attempting to influence your ruler, which can be good, or bad. 4.1 Promoting Lesser Nobles and Demoting Greater NoblesĮstate influence is a measure of how much power the estate has over the nation's government.