KSRE – Kovas’ States Rework: Expanded

Available for the 1.18+ Update!

Kovas’ States Rework: Expanded is a continuation mod of the original KSR which brings back with it many previously removed fan-favorite features, such as state renaming and custom subjects. Players will now be able to restore certain historical borders, bend territory alongside natural barriers like rivers and make use of underlooked landmasses. Among new states that were implemented, a significant amount of vanilla states have also been changed and improved.

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Version 3.1.01 – April 30th, 2026

720+ new states in:
Austria, Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, British Malaya, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Japan, German Reich, Guatemala, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Manchuria, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Iraq, Italy, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Yugoslavia.

• Automatic state and town renaming for many locations mostly across Europe.
• Entirely new world map based on the Mercator Projection.
• Large amount of towns (victory points) added.
• Lots of new puppet/subject nations for Germany, Austria-Hungary, Japan and more.
• Fully custom subject management system that allows extending territory, switching capitals or dismantling the subject altogether.
• Ability to change the flag for Austria-Hungary, German Empire, Russian Empire and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• State transferring (i.e. transfer Transnistria to Romania, Karelia to Finland or Sakhalin to Japan).
• Berlin, Moscow, Istanbul and Paris can be split into two if they are owned by different countries.
• Custom political decisions (i.e. decision to rename Siam to Thailand in 1939).
• Many custom KSRE game rules.

• Certain inaccurately displayed vanilla flags corrected.
• Rhineland DMZ territories.
• Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact partition of Poland.
• 1941 borders of Germany.
• West-East German territories, including partitioned Berlin.
• Peruvian-Ecuadorian contested territories.
• Polish-Lithuanian contested territories.
• German Empire 1914 borders.
• Austria-Hungary 1914 borders.
• Ottoman Empire 1914 borders.
• Axis occupation of Yugoslavia.

Updates are not being released on a fixed schedule. I update the mod whenever I have the time and motivation personally. Pressing updates such as critical bug fixes can be expected more often.

This is a go-to check for mod conflict. KSRE has absolutely no bugs in terms of the Rhineland as it was tested over several years, which means you are running additional mods that affect focus trees.

KSRE is a base map mod, which means that compatiblities should not be initiated by me but rather by the author of the other mod in question. I am, however, fully open to the idea of modders making compatiblity mods for KSRE.

The mod currently only supports English localisation as this is the only language from the game that I know on a C-level basis. However, submods for KSRE translations into various other languages do exist on the Workshop.

This is because KSRE needs to be played on a brand new save. For example, loading vanilla save games with KSRE creates conflict.

M.B. Kovas – Creator & Head Developer
Alora – Designed flags for Romanshia and the Tianjin City State.
Subscribers – Reporting bugs and giving great suggestions.