Funny / Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun

• Certain headlines from the in-game newspapers certainly count:
  • "The public is advised to be on the lookout for a man with a large moustache, a top hat and a black opera cloak."
  • "Sombero width at an all-time high."
• French Guyana is considered to be a part of France (just like in real life). Attempts to conquer it result in the colony being named, for example, "Dutch France".
• With a little know-how, you can play as an island of polar bears. Seriously.
  • And with some cheats, you can start conquering human countries.
• For whatever reason, ISIS decided to photoshop the Victoria map to show their plans for a pan-Islamic state.◊ Then the modders got wind of this.◊
• In the leaked build of Victoria 3, the loading screens had a series of amusing quotes from the devs (presumably to be replaced by actual historical quotes when the game is released):
  "A designer is gone exactly when you need him" - Johan Lerström
  "What is happiness?. - Henrik R. Hansson
  "Terrorism is the main thing. - Mikael Andersson
  "More startup errors is always good" - Emil Djupfeldt
  "This is the closest vote since Trains vs Freedom of Speech" - Rufus Tronde
  "The horror! The horror!" - Veronica Pazos
  "My first royal decree is to ban anime" - Johan Jons (18th January 1871)
  "Existence seems to be a very abstract concept" - Daniel Tolman
  "Silence, liberal!" - Niklas Lehmkuhl
  Did you know that Paul Depre, former QA Lead of Victoria 3, has a degree in economics?
  Victoria 3 is a very apolitical game.
  "We are almost a whole species." - Aron Nisbel
  "He will not reach an old age because I'm going to arbitrarily kill him off after a year or so." - Daniel Tolman
  "I wonder which country or ethnic group I will remove next..." - Daniel Tolman
  "The Opium Wars were really fun." - Hans Magne Jaatun
  "Shouldn't we remove these fun quotes and add real immersion ones soon?" - Mr.X
• The flavor text for the event on completing the Philosophy Department mission◊ in 3 is a parody of the Rick and Morty copypasta:

You have to be very intelligent to understand dialectics. The method is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of continental philosophy most of it will go over a typical undergraduate's head. There's also Hegel's master-slave dialectic, which is deftly woven into his work — his personal philosophy draws heavily on Kantian literature, for instance. Hegelians understand this stuff, they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depth of his work, to realize that it's not just logos, it says something deep about life.

• The flavor text for the Dyeworks Accident event in 3 mentions repeatedly how workers "dyed"...

"Several workers dyed today at the [state name] dyeworks, when an industrial-sized tub of hot dye accidentally spilled out over the workshop floor and the unsuspecting workers. Locals are upset about the incident, claiming that the poor safety regulations in the hot and dangerous workplace are to blame for the accident, and are urging the government to take action. As rescue workers left the scene, several workshop employees were left dyeing."

Option 1: We shall all dye sooner or later.

Option 2: They shall not have dyed in vain!