Do this until you have 10 times the number of counties in your realm as you have in direct holdings. This way, you’ll get 100% of your domain holdings’ output at first.

Begin by playing as normal, keeping your holdings under the limit for the time being.

So, how do you actually pull off this strategy? Follow these steps and we’ll have you covered. You can also get other benefits such as almost unkillable men-at-arms, allowing you to completely dominate the world without having to worry about uprisings. However, in normal feudalism, gold and levies are split between vassals below you to the point where the top ruler barely sees any of the actual cash, so it's not as severe a penalty as the game would have you believe.īeing over the domain limit can ramp you up to a -90% penalty to both taxes and levies very quickly, but if you have a ludicrous amount of land anyway, this barely even matters. The domain limit is a mechanic that tries to discourage this, as it severely penalises you for going over the limit.

So what is ‘North Korea’? Basically, you ignore the existence of vassals, titles, and everything the game wants you to care about, instead directly holding everything yourself. There are a few steps you’ll have to take to pull off this strategy, and full credit to YouTube channel Reman’s Paradox for an excellent video run-through of how it all works.

How to do the North Korea strategy in CK3

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