The “Take the pipe, my British friend” option makes the English obsessed with opium, which I happen to control the world supply of after doing a reverse Great Britain. I’m using my trade port outside of London to flood their market with the good shit. The British Century of Humiliation will occur right before my Soviet-sponsored revolution. This is what I like to call a pro gamer move.
Excellent, I can’t believe I haven’t thought to do this. Time to spend another month in this game
Add Morgenrote so you can unlock the real quest. First I form a communist superpower, then I monopolise the opium market and get treaty ports in all the major European countries, and THEN… I enforce basketball as the dominant world sport. Turtle Island versus Soviet Congo in the People’s NBA championship semifinals, scoring hundreds of points while the Europeans are too high to compete. Chairman Stalin announces the invasion of Australia under his Basketball Vanguardist policy. The people cheer and they smoke and they make me rich.