Venice starts with zero prestige, but has plenty of opportunities to gain more through decisions and conquest, as well as the classic prestige spamming strategy. Encouraging Bureaucrats will alleviate your money problems for now. Luckily, Aragon is not particularly strong, so you can either wait for their power to wane or become a great power yourself. As such, you will have money problems until you can break out of Aragon's sphere. Sadly, they also being in Aragon's sphere, which means they make no money on the good they produce. Venice begins the game with the world's fifth best economy and plenty of capitalists to keep it growing. As Venice, you will get opportunities to expand the voting franchise and become a true republic later. Venice also starts as a merchant republic government form, which functions as a democracy except with only landed voting. However, when headed by a player, Venice can find itself on that list permanently, and form Italy with a bunch of extra cultures attached. Venice is one of those nations in DoD that tends to periodically occupy the lower spots on the Great powers list, going rapidly in and out of Great Power status. Regardless, they are able to form Italy themselves should they get the chance, and they definitely can. They can still be forcefully integrated later through irredentist claims. Despite being an Italian nation, they are historically not considered the same type of Italian as the rest of north Italy, and as such are not required to form Italy. Venice is a country in North Italy, with holdings in Dalmatia, Greece, Cyprus, Athesia (Florida) and Terra d'Oro (Coastal Mauritania/Senegal).

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