Trade?

[Dayve]

the large emphasis on trade income makes it hard to fight wars :S

Which i think is absolutely fantastic, personally. It makes war something that must be gravely considered, especially as a European nation. I'm playing as Switzerland right now and trading with all my neighbours and have them all friendly through state gifts and technology gifts and whatnot, and it's a tangled web of alliances.

Having no overseas posessions, war in Europe for me would be a bad thing.