Why does this happen?

[Nats]

So I start as the British Empire. I see a warning icon at the top of the screen about Ceylon being 'Isolated'. When I look I can see that people are starving there. I click on the icon and it takes me to the 'British State of Ceylon'. I see that it needs a Port to be able to connect to the British Market, so I start building one its going to take 16 weeks.

Great! I think, I am on my way to understanding this game at last lol.

I then go off do do something else and go back to Ceylon but this time by clicking directly on the island instead of using the icon. It's now not called the 'British State of Ceylon', it's just called 'Ceylon'. And on this screen it says it already has a Port and I can't build anything in it anyway because its 'a foreign country'. I can see a port is there on the map.

So how come in one instance Ceylon is a British State in which I can build a port, and in another instance Ceylon already has a port and is its own foreign country !!!

Have I discovered an parallel dimension?

 

[Manchura]

So I start as the British Empire. I see a warning icon at the top of the screen about Ceylon being 'Isolated'. When I look I can see that people are starving there. I click on the icon and it takes me to the 'British State of Ceylon'. I see that it needs a Port to be able to connect to the British Market, so I start building one its going to take 16 weeks.

Great! I think, I am on my way to understanding this game at last lol.

I then go off do do something else and go back to Ceylon but this time by clicking directly on the island instead of using the icon. It's now not called the 'British State of Ceylon', it's just called 'Ceylon'. And on this screen it says it already has a Port and I can't build anything in it anyway because its 'a foreign country'. I can see a port is there on the map.

So how come in one instance Ceylon is a British State in which I can build a port, and in another instance Ceylon already has a port and is its own foreign country !!!

Have I discovered an parallel dimension?

ah, you see there is the State of Ceylon, and then the state of Ceylon

the state of Ceylon encompasses all the islands including Sri Lanka and the island chains to the south, the british directly own some of those smaller islands alongside an unrecognized country, the bulk of the total state mass belongs to the State of Ceylon, which owns the big island and turns into Sri Lanka when it gains independence

you aren't looking at the right part of the state of Ceylon

 

[Nats]

Yes thank you! I just noticed that it was a 'split state' made up of main Ceylon, The Maldives, and the islands south of the Maldives which is called British Ceylon lol. So I understand now, thanks. That really confused me.

 

[TheFlemishDuck]

I love how paradox gave a number of country's colonies withought port at start that are crying because of starvation and they altogether have enough population to barely staff a single level of port. "Hmm lets start the game either by building expensive ports or not give a damn, choices choices".