In Victoria 3, your country’s rank determines your influence over the rest of the world and your relationship with them. As your rank increases, you’ll be able to form alliances with other countries and you’ll also become a bigger player in international affairs. Your prestige determines your country’s rank.
You must possess high enough prestige to meet the seven ranks’ threshold requirement. This guide will explore how you can increase your prestige in Victoria 3. We’ll also cover the seven ranks and what earning them entails. Without any further ado, let’s get into it.
How to get high Prestige in Victoria 3?
1. Possess a strong army
Improving your army directly increases your Prestige in Victoria 3. You must strengthen your army with new upgrades to increase your country’s defense.
The thing to note here is that having a large army will give you Prestige. However, improving your army’s fighting capabilities will give you additional Prestige.
2. Have an impressive navy
Like the army, having a strong navy will boost your Prestige rating in Victoria 3. However, unlike the army, you will receive far more Prestige if you build an impressive navy.
3. Maintain a high GDP
GDP reflects the overall economy of a country. The higher the GDP, the more you have to spend on your country, and the more Prestige you get. This means that you will have to spend more on industrializing which will, in turn, increase your Prestige.
Maintain your income streams because if your GDP starts falling, you will also start losing Prestige. It is a two-way street.
4. Have a high culture rating
Investing in culture will give you Prestige in return. For example, you can build art academies to promote art in your nation. That alone will grant Prestige, but you can get even more by becoming a patron and sponsoring art for years to come.
5. Be a top-three goods producer
If your country manages to become one of the highest goods producers in the world, you will earn a lot of Prestige in return. This case has three tiers: first, second, and third.
Even if you are the producer of the third-highest goods in the world, you will still have an impressive amount of Prestige. Just note that certain goods give you more Prestige than others. You can check that in your Market/Trade tabs.
6. Undertake multinational projects
Keep an eye out for new expeditions and projects on a global scale. For example, sending an expedition team to far-off regions for exploration will get you a lot of Prestige. You can also build a dam or canal in another region for more Prestige.
How Rank works in Victoria 3?
Rank is also an equally important factor in determining the country’s worth, as it depends on Prestige. You can build your country to achieve several ranks in Victoria 3. Each rank shows how glorious and powerful that country has become. The higher your rank, the more influence you have in worldly affairs.
Your rank also determines how other countries look at you. Becoming a Great Power in Victoria 3, the highest of seven ranks, will give you a global reach. You can involve yourself in far-off conflicts, and other countries will be forced to listen to you during negotiations. In Victoria 3, the countries are granted the following ranks. These include:
1. Great Power
These are considered distinguished powerhouses due to their global reach, such as Great Britain. To become a great power, your prestige must be five times the global average or within 75% of the highest overall prestige in the world.
2. Major Power
These paramount powerhouses often decide the power course in their home regions and carry a limited global presence. E.g., “Kingdom of Two Sicilies”. To become an unrecognized major power, your prestige should be 2.5 times the global average or within 50% of the highest global prestige.
3. Unrecognized Major Power
These are comparable to nations included in Major Powers. They have the potential in terms of power and prestige, but they haven’t met the requirements completely to succeed in their rank. E.g., “Great China”. The requirements to become an Unrecognized Major Power is the same as for Major Power.
4. Minor Power
These are considered because they are important in determining how a local conflict in their home region occurs. They are irrelevant on the world stage. E.g., “Mexico”. To achieve the rank of Minor Power, your prestige must be within 15% of the highest prestige in the world or 0.6x of the global average.
5. Unrecognized Regional Power
These are considered unrecognized minor powers that generally lack the power to go against anyone. Due to their low dynamic ranking, they will find themselves at the mercy of Great or Major Powers. E.g., “Kingdom of Nepal”. The requirements for this rank are the same as for the Minor Power rank.
6. Insignificant Power
These are nations that, generally, cannot influence the outcome of the local population. E.g., “Free City of Krakow”. This Rank requires no prestige threshold.
7. Unrecognized Power
These nations are deemed as unrecognized powers because they remain unidentified on the power scale. Although some of these nations’ power is comparable to the major powers, they remain unidentifiable in rank. E.g., “The Qing Dynasty”. Similarly, to Insignificant power, this rank also requires no prestige.
Benefits of a higher rank in Victoria 3
The higher a country is ranked, the more influence capacity it will generate. Regarding capacity, we can take factors like Administration regarding Authority, Bureaucracy, and Influence.
These things don’t have a stockpile, so you can constantly have +500, which can be taken as your capacity limit. This results in increased Rank, which amounts to greater freedom in deploying Diplomacy and signing Diplomatic Acts.
Rank also plays a key role in many other systems such as infamy which is how other countries regard you and how many subjects you can have etc.
