The mod is older, and they hired the modder to work on the expansion. From the blog posts the expansion is a lot closer to vanilla then the complex mods.

Several companies have osm vector tiles, mapbox among them. Osm.org isn't really for end-users, the focus is on mappers.

Where did you get pikant for Swedish, im native and never heard that one

Sweden had colonies in north America and the Caribbean. Denmark still controls Greenland. Sweden and Norway are both colonizers in the US way, expanding boarders by stealing land from the indigenous people (Sami) etc

Unlike the Islamic countries that live eternally peacefully with their neighbors I guess..not slaughtering each other like barbarians.

Google dont directly use osm, as far as we know, but they or subcontractors check the changelogs and often add newly built things hours/ days after they get added to osm, presumably from their own sources as the data is not identical.

Army movement is mostly limited by food, see https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-...

Some EU countries do, in Sweden food stuffs are halv vat compared to the norm (12 vs 25)

Sweden had/has roads onthe middle of nowhere/forest that has more free space on the sides and at each end of particularly strate and flat stretches, there are oversized parking spots. Supposedly so fighter planes could refuse and rearm from mobile crews

Finland has plenty of those too. Here's a video of an F-18 doing a landing and takeoff from such a stretch of road during some exercise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_eJxy8ojk

Vici 3 is fun, for a more modern setting and a bit more realistic check out democracy 4

You mind sharing links? I would be interesting to try some bf again