Firstly, I just wanna congratulate EBII on excluding one of the largest empires of Eurasia from the game, and no, not the Mauryan Empire of India, you big silly! I'm talking about the Warring States of China! At the time of our start date of 272 BC these were being consolidated under the State of Qin that would unify China as the Qin dynasty, before collapsing and being replaced by the Han dynasty by 202 BC. On the date of its founding, the latter was almost the size of the Roman Empire when founded by Augustus in 27 BC, at the very least larger than the contemporary Roman Republic following the Second Punic War at the end of the 3rd century BC. It would continue to expand as well, swallowing everything south of the Yangzi River and moving into northern Vietnam along with northern Korea, stretching out into the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang by the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, becoming comparable in size to the Roman Empire at its maximum extent under emperor Trajan.
The decision by EBII to exclude China - and most of India - from the game is an excellent choice, but it doesn't go nearly far enough. We need to put China in its place and anyone who even dares to speak a Chinese dialect as a native language. We need to track down all ISPs who attempt to download the game from locations in the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China in Taiwan, the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and the city-state of Singapore, and block them all from now until the end of time. None of them should be allowed to even see our game. A great firewall should be constructed to block them from even knowing about EBII, let alone playing it, which they clearly do not deserve. The very idea of China or Chinese anything should be cleansed from the game as well, including those ancillaries received by the Saka and other factions such as the Han silk trader and the Zhang Qian traveling diplomat.
EBII should also ban and blacklist any mention of Chinese New Years on this sub-forum and we should stand in solidarity with the Tibetan independence movement.
Who's with me!