Hands-On Usage
all_other_country is commonly used to check whether a global condition has been met — for example, determining whether every country except the current one is at war, or whether all other major powers have recognized a certain ideology as dominant. It fits naturally inside event trigger conditions or a focus's available block.
# Check whether all countries except the current one are at war — used as a trigger for a doomsday event
trigger = {
all_other_country = {
has_war = yes
}
}
# Focus availability condition: no other country has researched a specific technology
available = {
all_other_country = {
NOT = { has_tech = electronic_mechanical_engineering }
}
}
Synergy
- any_enemy_country: While
all_other_country verifies that every country satisfies a condition, any_enemy_country checks that at least one enemy country does. Combining the two lets you build compound "global vs. local" logic.
- has_war: The most common inner trigger used inside
all_other_country — checks whether each country is currently at war, forming conditions like "the whole world is at war."
- has_government: Nested inside
all_other_country to check the ruling party ideology of every other country; frequently used in achievement checks for ideological-domination victory conditions.
- is_major: Can be used together with
all_other_country — typically via limit — to filter down to major powers before stacking additional conditions, giving you precise control over the scope of the check.
Common Pitfalls
- Assuming the current country is included: This trigger explicitly excludes the country in the current scope (Excludes current country). If you need to include your own country in the check, you must separately evaluate conditions against
THIS outside the trigger; otherwise your logic will have an unintended gap.
- Using it inside a non-country scope without verifying the scope first:
all_other_country supports the any scope, but if the current scripting context is a state or province scope, you must first transition to a country scope via OWNER, CONTROLLER, or a similar keyword — otherwise the behavior may not match your intent, or the trigger may fail to fire at all.