feat: sub-region-level territory — ownership, LLM and map at region granularity (v0.19.0)

Move territory from whole-country (ISO_A3) to individual sub-region id
granularity (PR 3 of #16):

- new server/regions.ts (turf-free): loadRegions (boot), expandTerritory
  (game creation), migrateTerritoryToRegions (legacy games on db.load),
  regionNamesFor / regionLabel (LLM prompt), graceful ISO_A3 fallback
- game creation expands each preset nation's ISO_A3 list to its sub-region
  ids; pre-v0.19 saved games migrate transparently on read (idempotent)
- LLM contract: territoryChanges gain/lose sub-region ids (one region at a
  time; gain moves out of the prior owner; lost-without-gainer = unowned);
  user prompt carries a top-level regions reference table
  ({id: 'name (parent)'} over the state's territory ids)
- WorldMap: choropleth fill per sub-region (countries can split between
  nations), ownership via properties.regionId through the shared
  mapFeatureOwner, flash lights exactly the changed features
  (featuresByRegionIds)
- deterministic stub: one region-level move per non-empty round (player
  annexes the lexicographically-first region of the first other nation)
- tests: new server/regions.test.ts (real geo + fallback + seams);
  map/engine tests re-pinned to region ids; scripts/regions.test.ts stays green

Measured full wwii-1939 user prompt (411 regions): ~24.7k chars / ~6.2k
tokens — far under the 80k frontier limit, so the full regions table is
always sent (no frontier-limited mode needed).

Part of #16

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 
 All notable changes to **History** are listed here, newest first.
 
+## v0.19.0 — 2026-10-13 22:02
+- **Sub-region-level territory (PR 3 of #16): ownership, the LLM, and the map all operate at individual sub-region granularity instead of whole-country.**
+  - `Nation.territory` is now a list of **sub-region ids** (`FR-57`, `DE-BB`, `US-AK`, … — the feature ids of `regions.geo.json`) rather than ISO_A3 country codes. At game creation (`POST /api/games`) each preset nation's ISO_A3 list is expanded to all its sub-region ids by the new `server/regions.ts` (a turf-free module that loads `public/`/`dist/regions.geo.json` once at boot into a region-id index + a country→regions map). Games saved before v0.19 are transparently migrated to region-level territory on read (`db.load` → `migrateTerritoryToRegions` — idempotent, and a no-op when the geo is not loaded).
+  - **The LLM contract follows the map:** a `TurnResult`'s `territoryChanges` now gain/lose sub-region ids, so a border can shift **one region at a time** — a gained region is moved out of whichever nation currently holds it, and a lost region with no matching gainer becomes unowned no-man's-land (the `applyTurnResult` splice logic was already format-agnostic and is unchanged). The user prompt carries a new top-level `regions` reference table — `{ id: "name (parent)" }` for every region id present in the world state — so the model can map an id it is considering to a real place; the system prompt's hard constraints now name sub-region ids (e.g. `FR-57`). **Prompt-size measurement (full `wwii-1939`: 7 nations, 411 regions): the complete user prompt is ≈ 24.7k chars / ≈ 6.2k tokens at start (≈ 26.4k / ≈ 6.6k with 8 recent events + a 2-item round) — far under the ~80k frontier limit, so the full `regions` table is always sent (no frontier-limited mode was needed).**
+  - **The choropleth is now truly per-region:** a nation's color fills exactly the sub-regions it owns, so a single country can be visibly split between nations, and unowned sub-regions render grey. Click/hover ownership resolves via the feature's `properties.regionId` (now the RegionMap key) through the shared `mapFeatureOwner` in `shared/protocol`, and the territory-change flash lights up exactly the regions whose owner changed (`featuresByRegionIds`, replacing the country-expanding `featuresByParents`).
+  - **Graceful degradation:** when the geo file is missing or unreadable the region maps stay empty and `hasRegionData()` is false, so expansion, migration, the prompt's `regions` table, and ownership resolution all fall back to the pre-v0.19 whole-country ISO_A3 behavior — the server still boots and the app still works (with a one-time console warning).
+  - **The deterministic stub stays deterministic** and now also makes exactly one region-level move per non-empty round: the player annexes the lexicographically-first sub-region of the first other nation (by key order) — empty rounds make no move — so unit tests and e2e assert the exact region that changes hands.
+  - **Tests:** new `server/regions.test.ts` (real-geo expansion/migration, the not-loaded fallback path, and the fixture seams); `server/map.test.ts` and `server/engine.test.ts` re-pinned to region-id fixtures, including the #6 regression guard (owner from `properties.regionId`, never the repacked numeric `feature.id`) and new `applyTurnResult` tests for prior-owner transfer, no-owner gain, and no-gainer lose.
+- Part of #16
+
 ## v0.18.0 — 2026-10-13 18:54
 - **Fixed a stale-owner display bug: the region hover tooltip and the dossier "Selected" label no longer print the static parent-country code (e.g. "FRA").** The GeoJSON `properties.parent` is a *static geographic-origin* field that never updates when a country is taken, yet it was rendered in the hover tooltip (as a sub-line and as a title fallback) and in the dossier's `Selected:` label (as a `(FRA)` suffix) — so a sub-region of a transferred country still displayed the old country's code next to the (correct) new owner. The tooltip now shows only the region name + the live owner chip (from the RegionMap) + key stats, and the dossier label shows only the region name. Ownership resolution still keys on `properties.parent` (unchanged) — only the display of it was removed.
 

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "history",
-  "version": "0.18.0",
+  "version": "0.19.0",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "description": "AI-driven alternate-history simulator — the LLM is the world engine (Pax Historia style).",

server/db.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { mkdirSync } from 'node:fs';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import Database from 'better-sqlite3';
 import type { GameState } from '../shared/types';
+import { migrateTerritoryToRegions } from './regions';
 
 export interface Db {
   save(state: GameState): void;
@@ -39,7 +40,11 @@ export function openDb(filePath: string): Db {
       const row = byId.get(id) as { data: string } | undefined;
       if (!row) return null;
       try {
-        return JSON.parse(row.data) as GameState;
+        // v0.19: migrate any pre-v0.19 (whole-country ISO_A3) territory to
+        // sub-region ids on read. A no-op when the region geo is not loaded,
+        // and idempotent once a state has been migrated (the next save then
+        // persists the region-level territory).
+        return migrateTerritoryToRegions(JSON.parse(row.data) as GameState);
       } catch {
         return null;
       }

server/engine.test.ts

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
 import type { GameState, Preset, RoundItem } from '../shared/types';
 import { makeEvent, type TurnResult } from '../shared/protocol';
 import type { LlmClient } from './llm';
 import { makeStubLlmClient } from './stub';
+import { _setRegionsForTests } from './regions';
 import {
   applyTurnResult,
   buildSystemPrompt,
@@ -24,6 +25,27 @@ function fakeLlm(responses: string[]): LlmClient {
   };
 }
 
+// Give the region module a small, deterministic index so `buildUserPrompt`'s
+// `regions` reference table is populated in these fast unit tests (the real
+// 3.4 MB geo stays out of this file). The ids match the synthetic territories
+// below.
+beforeAll(() => {
+  _setRegionsForTests(
+    {
+      'GB-01': { name: 'Greater London', parent: 'GBR' },
+      'GB-02': { name: 'Scotland', parent: 'GBR' },
+      'US-01': { name: 'New England', parent: 'USA' },
+      'US-02': { name: 'The Midwest', parent: 'USA' },
+      'PL-01': { name: 'Pomerania', parent: 'POL' },
+      'DE-01': { name: 'Rhineland', parent: 'DEU' },
+    },
+    { GBR: ['GB-01', 'GB-02'], USA: ['US-01', 'US-02'], POL: ['PL-01'], DEU: ['DE-01'] },
+  );
+});
+
+// As of v0.19 territory is a list of **sub-region ids** (the RegionMap keys),
+// not whole-country ISO_A3 codes. `us` also holds `PL-01` so that a canned or
+// stubbed gain of that region has a prior owner to move it from.
 const preset: Preset = {
   id: 'test',
   title: 'Test',
@@ -37,7 +59,7 @@ const preset: Preset = {
       name: 'UK',
       type: 'major',
       stats: { military: 80, economy: 70, stability: 60, population: 50 },
-      territory: ['GBR'],
+      territory: ['GB-01', 'GB-02'],
       relations: { us: 'neutral', de: 'hostile' },
     },
     {
@@ -45,7 +67,7 @@ const preset: Preset = {
       name: 'US',
       type: 'major',
       stats: { military: 60, economy: 90, stability: 80, population: 80 },
-      territory: ['USA'],
+      territory: ['US-01', 'US-02', 'PL-01'],
       relations: { uk: 'neutral' },
     },
     {
@@ -53,7 +75,7 @@ const preset: Preset = {
       name: 'DE',
       type: 'major',
       stats: { military: 95, economy: 70, stability: 75, population: 90 },
-      territory: ['DEU'],
+      territory: ['DE-01'],
       relations: {},
     },
   ],
@@ -88,7 +110,7 @@ const validResult = JSON.stringify({
     { nation: 'de', stat: 'economy', op: 'add', value: 10 },
   ],
   relations: [{ a: 'uk', b: 'us', set: 'ally' }],
-  territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'de', gain: ['POL'], lose: [] }],
+  territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'de', gain: ['PL-01'], lose: [] }],
 });
 
 describe('runTurn', () => {
@@ -109,8 +131,9 @@ describe('runTurn', () => {
     // relations are symmetric
     expect(state.nations.uk.relations.us).toBe('ally');
     expect(state.nations.us.relations.uk).toBe('ally');
-    // territory moved to DE
+    // the region moved to DE, out of its prior owner (us)
-    expect(state.nations.de.territory).toContain('POL');
+    expect(state.nations.de.territory).toContain('PL-01');
+    expect(state.nations.us.territory).not.toContain('PL-01');
     // one event appended, tagged with the turn that was resolved (1)
     expect(state.events).toHaveLength(1);
     expect(state.events[0].turn).toBe(1);
@@ -121,7 +144,8 @@ describe('runTurn', () => {
     // and the original state object is NOT mutated
     expect(original.turn).toBe(1);
     expect(original.nations.uk.stats.military).toBe(80);
-    expect(original.nations.de.territory).not.toContain('POL');
+    expect(original.nations.us.territory).toContain('PL-01');
+    expect(original.nations.de.territory).not.toContain('PL-01');
   });
 
   it('clamps out-of-range stat values into 0-100', async () => {
@@ -191,7 +215,7 @@ describe('runTurn', () => {
 });
 
 describe('runTurn (batched round, deterministic stub)', () => {
-  it('a single action item: turn+1, date+2, pending cleared, one military event, military set to clamp(cur+5)', async () => {
+  it('a single action item: turn+1, date+2, pending cleared, one military event, military set to clamp(cur+5), one deterministic region gain', async () => {
     const original = baseState();
     original.pending = [{ kind: 'action', text: 'Fortify the coast and mobilize the home guard' }];
     const { state, result } = await runTurn({
@@ -209,6 +233,12 @@ describe('runTurn (batched round, deterministic stub)', () => {
     expect(state.events[0].nation).toBe('uk');
     expect(state.events[0].outcome).toBe('success');
     expect(result.stateChanges).toEqual([{ nation: 'uk', stat: 'military', op: 'set', value: 85 }]);
+    // the stub's one deterministic per-turn territory move: the player annexes
+    // the lexicographically-first region of the first other nation (us holds
+    // PL-01, US-01, US-02 → PL-01 wins), moved out of us.
+    expect(result.territoryChanges).toEqual([{ nation: 'uk', gain: ['PL-01'], lose: [] }]);
+    expect(state.nations.uk.territory).toEqual(['GB-01', 'GB-02', 'PL-01']);
+    expect(state.nations.us.territory).toEqual(['US-01', 'US-02']);
     // committing a turn is a new revision too
     expect(state.version).toBe(2);
     // the original object is not mutated (a fresh queue was consumed)
@@ -216,7 +246,7 @@ describe('runTurn (batched round, deterministic stub)', () => {
     expect(original.version).toBe(1);
   });
 
-  it('an empty round: turn advances, one political "world moves on" event, pending stays empty', async () => {
+  it('an empty round: turn advances, one political "world moves on" event, no territory move', async () => {
     const { state } = await runTurn({
       llm: makeStubLlmClient(),
       preset,
@@ -230,9 +260,13 @@ describe('runTurn (batched round, deterministic stub)', () => {
     expect(state.events[0].type).toBe('political');
     expect(state.events[0].title).toBe('The world moves on');
     expect(state.events[0].outcome).toBe('neutral');
+    // an empty round makes no move: every territory is untouched
+    expect(state.nations.uk.territory).toEqual(['GB-01', 'GB-02']);
+    expect(state.nations.us.territory).toEqual(['US-01', 'US-02', 'PL-01']);
+    expect(state.nations.de.territory).toEqual(['DE-01']);
   });
 
-  it('a round with two actions and one diplomacy: 3 events (2 military + 1 diplomatic), exactly one turn advance', async () => {
+  it('a round with two actions and one diplomacy: 3 events (2 military + 1 diplomatic), exactly one turn advance, one region gain', async () => {
     const state = baseState();
     state.pending = [
       { kind: 'action', text: 'Reinforce the Atlantic convoys' },
@@ -251,6 +285,9 @@ describe('runTurn (batched round, deterministic stub)', () => {
     expect(next.events.filter((e) => e.type === 'military')).toHaveLength(2);
     expect(next.events.filter((e) => e.type === 'diplomatic')).toHaveLength(1);
     expect(next.nations.uk.stats.military).toBe(85); // one +5 per turn, not per item
+    // …and one (not three) territory move for the whole batch
+    expect(next.nations.uk.territory).toEqual(['GB-01', 'GB-02', 'PL-01']);
+    expect(next.nations.us.territory).toEqual(['US-01', 'US-02']);
   });
 });
 
@@ -264,6 +301,7 @@ describe('buildUserPrompt (batched round)', () => {
       pending: RoundItem[];
       playerActions: unknown[];
       roundInstruction: string;
+      regions: Record<string, string>;
     };
     expect(parsed.pending).toEqual(items);
     expect(parsed.playerActions).toEqual(['Fortify Dover', { to: 'us', message: 'Propose a pact' }]);
@@ -271,6 +309,20 @@ describe('buildUserPrompt (batched round)', () => {
     expect(parsed.roundInstruction).toContain('Propose a pact');
   });
 
+  it('emits a regions reference table ("id → name (parent)") covering every territory id in the state', () => {
+    const parsed = JSON.parse(buildUserPrompt(baseState(), [])) as {
+      regions: Record<string, string>;
+      state: { nations: Record<string, { territory: string[] }> };
+    };
+    // the table is keyed by the union of all nations' (sub-region) territory ids
+    const allIds = Object.values(parsed.state.nations).flatMap((n) => n.territory);
+    expect(Object.keys(parsed.regions).sort()).toEqual([...allIds].sort());
+    // each id maps to a human "name (parent)" label from the region index
+    expect(parsed.regions['GB-01']).toBe('Greater London (GBR)');
+    expect(parsed.regions['DE-01']).toBe('Rhineland (DEU)');
+    expect(parsed.regions['PL-01']).toBe('Pomerania (POL)');
+  });
+
   it('frames an empty round as "the world advances on its own momentum"', () => {
     const parsed = JSON.parse(buildUserPrompt(baseState(), [])) as {
       pending: RoundItem[];
@@ -461,6 +513,48 @@ describe('applyTurnResult', () => {
     expect(state.pending).toHaveLength(1); // original untouched
     expect(state.version).toBe(1);
   });
+
+  it('moves a gained region out of its prior owner (region-level transfer)', () => {
+    const state = baseState();
+    const result: TurnResult = {
+      date: '1939-09-03',
+      events: [],
+      stateChanges: [],
+      relations: [],
+      territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'de', gain: ['PL-01'], lose: [] }],
+    };
+    const next = applyTurnResult(state, result);
+    expect(next.nations.de.territory).toContain('PL-01');
+    expect(next.nations.us.territory).not.toContain('PL-01'); // spliced out of the prior owner
+    expect(next.nations.uk.territory).toEqual(['GB-01', 'GB-02']);
+  });
+
+  it('adds a region nobody owned (no prior owner to splice from)', () => {
+    const state = baseState();
+    const result: TurnResult = {
+      date: '1939-09-03',
+      events: [],
+      stateChanges: [],
+      relations: [],
+      territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'uk', gain: ['FR-57'], lose: [] }],
+    };
+    const next = applyTurnResult(state, result);
+    expect(next.nations.uk.territory).toEqual(['GB-01', 'GB-02', 'FR-57']);
+  });
+
+  it('drops a lost region with no gainer (it becomes unowned / no-man\'s-land)', () => {
+    const state = baseState();
+    const result: TurnResult = {
+      date: '1939-09-03',
+      events: [],
+      stateChanges: [],
+      relations: [],
+      territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'us', gain: [], lose: ['PL-01'] }],
+    };
+    const next = applyTurnResult(state, result);
+    expect(next.nations.us.territory).toEqual(['US-01', 'US-02']);
+    expect(Object.values(next.nations).every((n) => !n.territory.includes('PL-01'))).toBe(true);
+  });
 });
 
 describe('isMeaningful', () => {

server/engine.ts

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import {
 } from '../shared/protocol';
 import { DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS, type LlmClient } from './llm';
 import { ADVISOR_MARKER } from './stub';
+import { regionNamesFor } from './regions';
 
 const VALID_EVENT_TYPES = new Set<string>(EVENT_TYPES);
 const VALID_RELATIONS = new Set<string>(RELATION_STATUSES);
@@ -53,11 +54,12 @@ export function buildSystemPrompt(preset: Preset): string {
     '  ],',
     '  "stateChanges": [{"nation":"<nationId>","stat":"<military|economy|stability|population>","op":"<set|add>","value":<0-100>}],',
     '  "relations": [{"a":"<nationId>","b":"<nationId>","set":"<ally|neutral|rival|hostile|war>"}],',
-    '  "territoryChanges": [{"nation":"<nationId>","gain":["<ISO_A3>"],"lose":["<ISO_A3>"]}]',
+    '  "territoryChanges": [{"nation":"<nationId>","gain":["<regionId>"],"lose":["<regionId>"]}]',
     '}',
     '',
     'HARD CONSTRAINTS',
-    '- Use only nation ids and ISO_A3 codes that exist in the provided state.',
+    '- Use only nation ids and sub-region ids (e.g. `FR-57`) that exist in the provided state.',
+    '- A region id (e.g. `FR-57`) identifies a single sub-region — the `regions` table below lists each id with its name and country; a nation\'s border can change one region at a time.',
     '- Prefer 1-4 events per turn; keep each text 1-3 sentences.',
     '- Keep your internal reasoning brief (a few sentences) and go straight to the JSON result; do not over-deliberate or re-derive facts already present in the state.',
     '- Keep every stat value between 0 and 100.',
@@ -106,6 +108,15 @@ export function buildUserPrompt(state: GameState, items: RoundItem[]): string {
         outcome: e.outcome,
       })),
     },
+    // A name lookup for every region id referenced anywhere in the state, so the
+    // model can map an id it is considering (e.g. `FR-57`) to a place it
+    // recognizes. This is a top-level reference table keyed by sub-region id;
+    // each nation's own `territory` still carries raw ids (via nationForPrompt,
+    // unchanged) so the deterministic stub can parse them. When the region geo
+    // is not loaded the table is empty and the model falls back to the raw ids.
+    regions: regionNamesFor(
+      Object.values(state.nations).flatMap((n) => n.territory),
+    ),
     playerActions,
     pending: items,
     roundInstruction,

server/index.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import type { GameState } from '../shared/types';
 import { createLlmClient } from './llm';
 import { makeStubLlmClient } from './stub';
 import { askAdvisor, queueRoundItem, removeRoundItem, runTurn } from './engine';
+import { expandTerritory, loadRegions } from './regions';
 import { buildRegionMap } from './map';
 import { createPresetStore } from './presets';
 import { openDb, type Db } from './db';
@@ -41,6 +42,10 @@ function findRoot(): string {
 }
 
 const root = findRoot();
+// Load the sub-region geo once at boot (a graceful no-op, with a warning, when
+// the file is missing — the territory model then degrades to whole-country
+// ISO_A3 codes). Must run before the first game creation/load.
+loadRegions(root);
 const presetsDir = path.join(root, 'presets');
 const clientDir = process.env.CLIENT_DIST ?? path.join(root, 'dist');
 const dataDir = process.env.DATA_DIR ?? path.join(root, 'data');
@@ -116,7 +121,16 @@ app.post('/api/games', (req: Request, res) => {
     playerNationId: nation.id,
     turn: 1,
     date: preset.startDate,
-    nations: Object.fromEntries(preset.nations.map((n) => [n.id, deepClone(n)])),
+    // v0.19: territory is at sub-region granularity — expand each preset
+    // nation's ISO_A3 country codes into all their sub-region ids (a no-op that
+    // keeps the country codes when the region geo is not loaded).
+    nations: Object.fromEntries(
+      preset.nations.map((n) => {
+        const nation = deepClone(n);
+        nation.territory = expandTerritory(nation.territory);
+        return [n.id, nation];
+      }),
+    ),
     events: [],
     pending: [],
     version: 1, // the first saved revision; every later mutation bumps it

server/map.test.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import { buildRegionMap } from './map';
 import { mapFeatureOwner, nationColor, regionOwner, type RegionMap } from '../shared/protocol';
 import type { GameState } from '../shared/types';
 
+// As of v0.19 territory is a list of **sub-region ids** (the RegionMap keys),
+// not whole-country ISO_A3 codes.
 const state: GameState = {
   id: 'g',
   presetId: 'p',
@@ -16,7 +18,7 @@ const state: GameState = {
       name: 'UK',
       type: 'major',
       stats: { military: 80, economy: 70, stability: 60, population: 50 },
-      territory: ['GBR', 'IRL'],
+      territory: ['GB-01', 'GB-02'],
       relations: {},
     },
     de: {
@@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ const state: GameState = {
       name: 'DE',
       type: 'major',
       stats: { military: 90, economy: 70, stability: 70, population: 90 },
-      territory: ['DEU'],
+      territory: ['DE-01'],
       relations: {},
     },
   },
@@ -33,28 +35,29 @@ const state: GameState = {
   version: 1,
 };
 
-// The RegionMap built from the fixture: the authoritative ISO_A3 → owner source.
+// The RegionMap built from the fixture: the authoritative sub-region id → owner
+// source.
 const regions: RegionMap = buildRegionMap(state);
 
 describe('buildRegionMap', () => {
-  it('maps each ISO_A3 region to its owner + that nation\'s stable color', () => {
+  it('maps each sub-region id to its owner + that nation\'s stable color', () => {
     const m = buildRegionMap(state);
-    expect(m.GBR).toEqual({ color: nationColor('uk'), owner: 'UK', ownerId: 'uk' });
+    expect(m['GB-01']).toEqual({ color: nationColor('uk'), owner: 'UK', ownerId: 'uk' });
-    expect(m.IRL).toEqual({ color: nationColor('uk'), owner: 'UK', ownerId: 'uk' });
+    expect(m['GB-02']).toEqual({ color: nationColor('uk'), owner: 'UK', ownerId: 'uk' });
-    expect(m.DEU).toEqual({ color: nationColor('de'), owner: 'DE', ownerId: 'de' });
+    expect(m['DE-01']).toEqual({ color: nationColor('de'), owner: 'DE', ownerId: 'de' });
-    // a region nobody owns is simply absent
+    // a sub-region nobody owns is simply absent
-    expect(m.FRA).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(m['FR-57']).toBeUndefined();
   });
 });
 
 describe('regionOwner', () => {
-  it('resolves an owned region\'s ISO_A3 to its owner record', () => {
+  it('resolves an owned sub-region id to its owner record', () => {
-    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'GBR')).toEqual({
+    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'GB-01')).toEqual({
       color: nationColor('uk'),
       owner: 'UK',
       ownerId: 'uk',
     });
-    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'DEU')).toEqual({
+    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'DE-01')).toEqual({
       color: nationColor('de'),
       owner: 'DE',
       ownerId: 'de',
@@ -62,11 +65,11 @@ describe('regionOwner', () => {
   });
 
   it('returns undefined for an unowned region (no RegionMap entry)', () => {
-    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'FRA')).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'FR-57')).toBeUndefined();
-    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'USA')).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'US-01')).toBeUndefined();
   });
 
-  it('returns undefined for an empty or missing code', () => {
+  it('returns undefined for an empty or missing id', () => {
     expect(regionOwner(regions, '')).toBeUndefined();
     expect(regionOwner(regions, null)).toBeUndefined();
     expect(regionOwner(regions, undefined)).toBeUndefined();
@@ -74,28 +77,28 @@ describe('regionOwner', () => {
 });
 
 /**
- * #6 regression guard (sub-national map). The click/hover handlers resolve the
+ * #6 regression guard (sub-national map, v0.19 region-level ownership). The
- * owning nation from a rendered map feature. MapLibre repacks a GeoJSON
+ * click/hover handlers resolve the owning nation from a rendered map feature.
- * source's top-level `id` into a *numeric index* when it stores the source, so a
+ * MapLibre repacks a GeoJSON source's top-level `id` into a *numeric index*
- * feature the map hands back at interaction time has a number for `id`. The
+ * when it stores the source, so a feature the map hands back at interaction
- * choropleth is now sub-national: a feature's id is a sub-region code
+ * time has a number for `id`. Since v0.19 ownership is at **sub-region**
- * (`DEU-03`) and its owner lives at the *parent country* (`DEU`), which the
+ * granularity: a feature's owner lives at its **own sub-region id** (e.g.
- * client stamps into `properties.parent` (the RegionMap is keyed by that
+ * `DE-01`), which the client stamps into `properties.regionId` (the RegionMap
- * country code, never the sub-region id). This pins the exact data shape and
+ * is keyed by that id). This pins the exact data shape and proves the
- * proves the resolution: `mapFeatureOwner` works via `properties.parent`, while
+ * resolution: `mapFeatureOwner` works via `properties.regionId`, while the
- * the two wrong paths (the repacked numeric `feature.id`, and the sub-region
+ * repacked numeric `feature.id` path does not.
- * `regionId`, which is not a RegionMap key) do not.
  */
-describe('#6 — sub-region owner must be resolved from properties.parent, not the sub-region id / repacked feature.id', () => {
+describe('#6 — region owner must be resolved from properties.regionId, never the repacked feature.id', () => {
   // The shape MapLibre returns for a sub-region feature after setData(): `id`
-  // is a number (repacked), and the stable identifiers live only in properties —
+  // is a number (repacked), and the stable identifiers live only in properties
-  // `regionId` (the sub-region code) and `parent` (the ISO_A3 country).
+  // — `regionId` (the sub-region id, the RegionMap key) and `parent` (the
+  // static parent country's ISO_A3).
   const repackedFeature = {
     id: 0,
-    properties: { name: 'Germany R03', regionId: 'DEU-03', parent: 'DEU' },
+    properties: { name: 'Rhineland', regionId: 'DE-01', parent: 'DEU' },
   };
 
-  it('resolves the owner from properties.parent (the fix)', () => {
+  it('resolves the owner from properties.regionId (the fix)', () => {
     expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, repackedFeature)).toEqual({
       color: nationColor('de'),
       owner: 'DE',
@@ -103,30 +106,30 @@ describe('#6 — sub-region owner must be resolved from properties.parent, not t
     });
   });
 
-  it('the sub-region regionId is NOT a RegionMap key — resolving from it fails', () => {
+  it('the repacked numeric feature.id does NOT resolve — the original bug', () => {
-    // 'DEU-03' is a sub-region id; the RegionMap is keyed by the parent 'DEU'.
-    expect(regionOwner(regions, repackedFeature.properties.regionId)).toBeUndefined();
-  });
-
-  it('the repacked numeric feature.id does NOT resolve — the bug', () => {
     // String(0) === '0' is not a valid key, so the pre-fix lookup failed and
     // reported "No owner" even for owned regions.
     expect(regionOwner(regions, String(repackedFeature.id))).toBeUndefined();
   });
+
+  it('a sub-region id nobody owns does NOT resolve', () => {
+    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'FR-57')).toBeUndefined();
+  });
 });
 
 describe('mapFeatureOwner', () => {
-  it('returns undefined for a missing feature, missing parent, or non-string parent', () => {
+  it('returns undefined for a missing feature, missing regionId, or non-string regionId', () => {
     expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, null)).toBeUndefined();
     expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, undefined)).toBeUndefined();
     expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, {})).toBeUndefined();
     expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: {} })).toBeUndefined();
-    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { parent: 42 } })).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { regionId: 42 } })).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { regionId: '' } })).toBeUndefined();
   });
 
-  it('returns undefined for a parent country nobody owns', () => {
+  it('returns undefined for a sub-region nobody owns', () => {
-    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { parent: 'FRA' } })).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { regionId: 'FR-57' } })).toBeUndefined();
-    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { parent: 'USA' } })).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { regionId: 'US-01' } })).toBeUndefined();
   });
 });
 

server/map.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
-// Build the choropleth payload from a GameState: every ISO_A3 region maps to its
+// Build the choropleth payload from a GameState: every **sub-region id** in a
-// owning nation plus that nation's stable color (see shared.nationColor). The
+// nation's territory maps to its owning nation plus that nation's stable color
-// client merges this onto public/countries.geo.json and calls source.setData().
+// (see shared.nationColor). The client merges this onto public/regions.geo.json
+// and calls source.setData(). The map is keyed by whatever ids sit in
+// `nation.territory` — sub-region ids (e.g. `FR-57`) as of v0.19 — so it needs
+// no change to move from country to sub-region granularity; a sub-region in no
+// nation's territory is simply absent (unowned, rendered grey by the map).
 import { nationColor, type RegionMap } from '../shared/protocol';
 import type { GameState } from '../shared/types';
 
@@ -8,8 +12,8 @@ export function buildRegionMap(state: GameState): RegionMap {
   const map: RegionMap = {};
   for (const [id, nation] of Object.entries(state.nations)) {
     const color = nationColor(id);
-    for (const code of nation.territory) {
+    for (const regionId of nation.territory) {
-      map[code] = { color, owner: nation.name, ownerId: id };
+      map[regionId] = { color, owner: nation.name, ownerId: id };
     }
   }
   return map;

server/regions.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+/**
+ * server/regions.test.ts — the sub-region data module (v0.19).
+ *
+ * The first suite loads the REAL `public/regions.geo.json` (the same file the
+ * production server loads at boot), so expansion/migration runs against the
+ * actual 1,796-region dataset. The second suite exercises the graceful
+ * "geo missing" path (module not loaded) via the `_resetRegionsForTests` seam,
+ * and pins the `_setRegionsForTests` fixture seam used by the other unit tests.
+ * Module state is per vitest file, so these suites never collide with other
+ * test files.
+ */
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import type { GameState } from '../shared/types';
+import {
+  _resetRegionsForTests,
+  _setRegionsForTests,
+  expandTerritory,
+  hasRegionData,
+  loadRegions,
+  migrateTerritoryToRegions,
+  regionLabel,
+  regionNamesFor,
+} from './regions';
+
+const here = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const root = path.resolve(here, '..');
+
+function makeState(territory: string[]): GameState {
+  return {
+    id: 'g',
+    presetId: 'p',
+    presetTitle: 'P',
+    playerNationId: 'uk',
+    turn: 1,
+    date: '1939-09-01',
+    nations: {
+      uk: {
+        id: 'uk',
+        name: 'UK',
+        type: 'major',
+        stats: { military: 80, economy: 70, stability: 60, population: 50 },
+        territory,
+        relations: {},
+      },
+    },
+    events: [],
+    pending: [],
+    version: 1,
+  };
+}
+
+describe('server/regions (real geo)', () => {
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    _resetRegionsForTests();
+    loadRegions(root);
+  });
+
+  it('loads public/regions.geo.json (hasRegionData becomes true)', () => {
+    expect(hasRegionData()).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('loadRegions is idempotent: a second call keeps the loaded data', () => {
+    loadRegions(root);
+    expect(hasRegionData()).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('expandTerritory expands an ISO_A3 into its sub-region ids (unique, all with that parent)', () => {
+    const ids = expandTerritory(['FRA']);
+    expect(ids.length).toBeGreaterThan(1); // France is subdivided, not one region
+    expect(new Set(ids).size).toBe(ids.length); // deduped
+    // every expanded id resolves back to the same parent country
+    const names = regionNamesFor(ids);
+    for (const id of ids) expect(names[id]).toMatch(/\(FRA\)$/);
+  });
+
+  it('expandTerritory is order-preserving and dedupes repeated country codes', () => {
+    expect(expandTerritory(['FRA', 'FRA'])).toEqual(expandTerritory(['FRA']));
+    // two countries: the union, in first-seen order (the ids are disjoint)
+    expect(expandTerritory(['FRA', 'DEU'])).toEqual([
+      ...expandTerritory(['FRA']),
+      ...expandTerritory(['DEU']),
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('expandTerritory of an empty or unknown list yields no regions', () => {
+    expect(expandTerritory([])).toEqual([]);
+    expect(expandTerritory(['XXX'])).toEqual([]); // no country with that code
+  });
+
+  it('regionNamesFor maps every known id to "name (parent)"', () => {
+    const ids = expandTerritory(['DEU']);
+    const names = regionNamesFor(ids);
+    expect(Object.keys(names).sort()).toEqual([...ids].sort());
+    for (const id of ids) expect(names[id]).toMatch(/\(DEU\)$/);
+  });
+
+  it('regionNamesFor skips ids that are not in the loaded index', () => {
+    expect(regionNamesFor(['NO-SUCH-01'])).toEqual({});
+  });
+
+  it('regionLabel is "id — name (parent)" for known ids and the bare id for unknown', () => {
+    const [id] = expandTerritory(['FRA']);
+    expect(regionLabel(id)).toMatch(new RegExp(`^${id} — .+ \\(FRA\\)$`));
+    expect(regionLabel('NO-SUCH-01')).toBe('NO-SUCH-01');
+  });
+
+  it('migrateTerritoryToRegions rewrites ISO_A3 entries to region ids, keeps existing region ids, and is idempotent', () => {
+    const [deId] = expandTerritory(['DEU']); // a real region id of another country
+    const state = makeState(['FRA', deId]); // mixed: legacy ISO_A3 + already migrated
+    const originalArray = state.nations.uk.territory;
+    // it mutates and returns the (fresh) state it is given — callers pass a
+    // just-parsed object (db.load), so the in-place mutation is safe
+    const out = migrateTerritoryToRegions(state);
+    expect(out).toBe(state);
+    // the original array object is never mutated in place — a new one is
+    // installed on the nation, and the original stays as it was
+    expect(out.nations.uk.territory).not.toBe(originalArray);
+    expect(originalArray).toEqual(['FRA', deId]);
+    // the ISO_A3 entry is gone, replaced by its sub-region ids…
+    expect(out.nations.uk.territory).not.toContain('FRA');
+    for (const id of expandTerritory(['FRA'])) expect(out.nations.uk.territory).toContain(id);
+    // …and the existing region id survives, exactly once
+    expect(out.nations.uk.territory.filter((t) => t === deId)).toEqual([deId]);
+    // idempotent: a second migration changes nothing
+    expect(migrateTerritoryToRegions(out).nations.uk.territory).toEqual(out.nations.uk.territory);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('server/regions (fallback: geo not loaded)', () => {
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    _resetRegionsForTests();
+  });
+  afterAll(() => {
+    // restore the real geo for anything in this file that runs later
+    _resetRegionsForTests();
+    loadRegions(root);
+  });
+
+  it('hasRegionData is false after a reset', () => {
+    expect(hasRegionData()).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('expandTerritory returns its input unchanged (whole-country fallback)', () => {
+    expect(expandTerritory(['FRA'])).toEqual(['FRA']);
+    expect(expandTerritory([])).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('regionNamesFor is empty and regionLabel falls back to the bare id', () => {
+    expect(regionNamesFor(['FRA'])).toEqual({});
+    expect(regionLabel('FRA')).toBe('FRA');
+  });
+
+  it('migrateTerritoryToRegions is a no-op (returns the state untouched)', () => {
+    const state = makeState(['FRA']);
+    const out = migrateTerritoryToRegions(state);
+    expect(out).toBe(state);
+    expect(out.nations.uk.territory).toEqual(['FRA']);
+  });
+
+  it('_setRegionsForTests loads a fixture and drives the pure helpers', () => {
+    _setRegionsForTests(
+      {
+        'GB-01': { name: 'Greater London', parent: 'GBR' },
+        'GB-02': { name: 'Scotland', parent: 'GBR' },
+      },
+      { GBR: ['GB-01', 'GB-02'] },
+    );
+    expect(hasRegionData()).toBe(true);
+    expect(expandTerritory(['GBR'])).toEqual(['GB-01', 'GB-02']);
+    expect(regionNamesFor(['GB-01'])).toEqual({ 'GB-01': 'Greater London (GBR)' });
+    const state = makeState(['GBR']);
+    expect(migrateTerritoryToRegions(state).nations.uk.territory).toEqual(['GB-01', 'GB-02']);
+  });
+});

server/regions.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+// Sub-national region data: loaded ONCE at server boot from
+// `public/regions.geo.json` (dev) or `dist/regions.geo.json` (prod — Vite copies
+// `public/` → `dist/`). It builds two in-memory maps that power the
+// sub-region-level territory model (v0.19):
+//
+//   - `regionIndex`     : region id → { name, parent } (parent = ISO_A3 country)
+//   - `regionsByCountry`: ISO_A3 country → array of its region ids
+//
+// These are used to (a) expand a nation's ISO_A3 territory into its sub-region
+// ids at game creation / load-time migration, and (b) hand the LLM a human
+// name for each region id it may reference in a TurnResult.
+//
+// This is deliberately turf-free (plain `JSON.parse`): importing `@turf/*`
+// would pull `@types/geojson` into the tsc program and break `WorldMap.tsx`
+// (see AGENTS.md / the v0.17 changelog note on the geojson type gotcha).
+//
+// The server must still boot and the app still work when the geo file is
+// missing or unreadable: the maps stay empty, `hasRegionData()` stays false,
+// and the territory model gracefully degrades to whole-country ISO_A3 codes
+// (the pre-v0.19 behavior). Nothing here ever throws.
+import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import type { GameState } from '../shared/types';
+
+/** A region's stable identity: display name + the parent country's ISO_A3. */
+export interface RegionInfo {
+  name: string;
+  parent: string;
+}
+
+let regionIndex: Record<string, RegionInfo> = {};
+let regionsByCountry: Record<string, string[]> = {};
+let loaded = false;
+
+/** True once the region geo has been loaded successfully. */
+export function hasRegionData(): boolean {
+  return loaded;
+}
+
+/**
+ * (Re)build the in-memory region maps from the region geo. Idempotent: a second
+ * call is a no-op. Tries `<root>/public/regions.geo.json` first (dev), then
+ * `<root>/dist/regions.geo.json` (prod, where Vite copies `public/` → `dist/`).
+ * If no candidate file is found, or it fails to parse, the maps stay empty and
+ * `hasRegionData()` stays false (graceful fallback to ISO_A3) — never throws.
+ */
+export function loadRegions(root: string): void {
+  if (loaded) return;
+  const candidates = [
+    path.join(root, 'public', 'regions.geo.json'),
+    path.join(root, 'dist', 'regions.geo.json'),
+  ];
+  const file = candidates.find((c) => existsSync(c));
+  if (!file) {
+    console.warn(
+      '[history] regions.geo.json not found (tried: ' + candidates.join(', ') +
+        ') — falling back to whole-country (ISO_A3) territory',
+    );
+    return;
+  }
+  try {
+    const geo = JSON.parse(readFileSync(file, 'utf8')) as {
+      features?: Array<{
+        id?: string | number;
+        properties?: { name?: string; parent?: string };
+      }>;
+    };
+    const index: Record<string, RegionInfo> = {};
+    const byCountry: Record<string, string[]> = {};
+    for (const f of geo.features ?? []) {
+      const id = f.id == null ? '' : String(f.id);
+      const parent = typeof f.properties?.parent === 'string' ? f.properties.parent : '';
+      const name = typeof f.properties?.name === 'string' ? f.properties.name : '';
+      if (!id || !parent) continue;
+      index[id] = { name, parent };
+      (byCountry[parent] ??= []).push(id);
+    }
+    regionIndex = index;
+    regionsByCountry = byCountry;
+    loaded = Object.keys(index).length > 0;
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.warn('[history] failed to load regions.geo.json (' + file + '):', e);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Expand a list of ISO_A3 country codes into the union of all their sub-region
+ * ids (deduped, preserving first-seen order). When the region data is not
+ * loaded, returns the input unchanged (graceful fallback to ISO_A3 territory).
+ */
+export function expandTerritory(countryCodes: string[]): string[] {
+  if (!loaded) return countryCodes;
+  const seen = new Set<string>();
+  const out: string[] = [];
+  for (const code of countryCodes) {
+    for (const id of regionsByCountry[code] ?? []) {
+      if (!seen.has(id)) {
+        seen.add(id);
+        out.push(id);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A `{ [regionId]: "name (parent)" }` object for the given region ids, for the
+ * LLM prompt. Unknown ids (not in the loaded index) are skipped. Empty when the
+ * region data is not loaded.
+ */
+export function regionNamesFor(ids: Iterable<string>): Record<string, string> {
+  const out: Record<string, string> = {};
+  for (const id of ids) {
+    const info = regionIndex[id];
+    if (info) out[id] = `${info.name} (${info.parent})`;
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Human-readable label for a single region id: `id — name (parent)`, or just
+ * the id when it is unknown (e.g. a region that predates the geo or a
+ * synthetic id).
+ */
+export function regionLabel(id: string): string {
+  const info = regionIndex[id];
+  return info ? `${id} — ${info.name} (${info.parent})` : id;
+}
+
+/** A bare ISO_A3 country code: exactly three uppercase letters (no hyphen). */
+const ISO_A3_RE = /^[A-Z]{3}$/;
+
+/**
+ * Migrate a loaded game's territory from whole-country ISO_A3 codes to
+ * sub-region ids, for nations that still carry ISO_A3 entries (i.e. games
+ * saved before v0.19). Each such nation's ISO_A3 codes are expanded to all
+ * their sub-region ids; any entries that are already region ids (they contain
+ * a hyphen, so they never match `ISO_A3_RE`) are kept. Idempotent and
+ * no-op when the region data is not loaded or a nation has no ISO_A3 codes.
+ * Mutates and returns the (fresh) state it is given.
+ */
+export function migrateTerritoryToRegions(state: GameState): GameState {
+  if (!loaded) return state;
+  for (const n of Object.values(state.nations)) {
+    if (!n.territory.some((t) => ISO_A3_RE.test(t))) continue;
+    const isoCodes = n.territory.filter((t) => ISO_A3_RE.test(t));
+    const existingRegions = n.territory.filter((t) => !ISO_A3_RE.test(t));
+    const merged = expandTerritory(isoCodes).concat(existingRegions);
+    const seen = new Set<string>();
+    const out: string[] = [];
+    for (const id of merged) {
+      if (!seen.has(id)) {
+        seen.add(id);
+        out.push(id);
+      }
+    }
+    n.territory = out;
+  }
+  return state;
+}
+
+// --- Test-only seams ---------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Test-only: reset the module state to "not loaded" (empty maps,
+ * `hasRegionData()` false). Lets a test exercise the graceful-fallback path.
+ */
+export function _resetRegionsForTests(): void {
+  regionIndex = {};
+  regionsByCountry = {};
+  loaded = false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Test-only: inject region maps directly (bypassing the file load) so a unit
+ * test can drive `expandTerritory` / `regionNamesFor` / `regionLabel` /
+ * `migrateTerritoryToRegions` against a small, deterministic fixture without
+ * reading the 3.4 MB geo file. `loaded` becomes true iff `index` is non-empty.
+ */
+export function _setRegionsForTests(
+  index: Record<string, RegionInfo>,
+  byCountry: Record<string, string[]>,
+): void {
+  regionIndex = index;
+  regionsByCountry = byCountry;
+  loaded = Object.keys(index).length > 0;
+}

server/stub.ts

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ export interface StubPayload {
     turn: number;
     date: string;
     playerNationId: string;
-    nations: Record<string, { stats: Record<string, number> }>;
+    /** As of v0.19 territory is a list of sub-region ids (not ISO_A3 codes). */
+    nations: Record<string, { stats: Record<string, number>; territory?: string[] }>;
   };
   /** The raw pending round the engine emitted (one entry per queued item). */
   pending?: RoundItem[];
@@ -30,7 +31,12 @@ function truncate(s: string, n: number): string {
  * single political "The world moves on" event when the round is empty — so a
  * caller can predict the exact next state for assertions. It always sets the
  * player's military to (current + 5) and allies the player with the first other
- * nation, advancing the date by 2 days.
+ * nation (by key order), advancing the date by 2 days. As of v0.19, when the
+ * round is non-empty it also makes exactly **one** territory move: the player
+ * annexes the lexicographically-first sub-region id of that first other
+ * nation's territory (an empty round makes no move, and a player with nothing
+ * to annex from that nation also makes no move) — so unit tests and e2e can
+ * assert the exact region that changes hands.
  */
 export function deterministicTurn(p: StubPayload): TurnResult {
   const state = p.state;
@@ -41,6 +47,9 @@ export function deterministicTurn(p: StubPayload): TurnResult {
     ? (Object.keys(state.nations).find((id) => id !== pid) ?? '')
     : 'us';
   const items = p.pending ?? [];
+  // The one deterministic per-turn territory move (see the doc above).
+  const otherTerritory = [...(state?.nations?.[otherId]?.territory ?? [])].sort();
+  const gain = items.length > 0 && otherTerritory.length > 0 ? [otherTerritory[0]] : [];
 
   const events: TurnEventSpec[] =
     items.length === 0
@@ -76,7 +85,7 @@ export function deterministicTurn(p: StubPayload): TurnResult {
     events,
     stateChanges: [{ nation: pid, stat: 'military', op: 'set', value: mil }],
     relations: otherId ? [{ a: pid, b: otherId, set: 'ally' }] : [],
-    territoryChanges: [],
+    territoryChanges: gain.length > 0 ? [{ nation: pid, gain, lose: [] }] : [],
   };
 }
 

shared/protocol.ts

@@ -23,7 +23,13 @@ export interface RelationChange {
   set: RelationStatus;
 }
 
-/** A nation gains/loses ISO_A3 regions this turn. */
+/**
+ * A nation gains/loses **sub-region ids** this turn (e.g. `FR-57`), not
+ * whole-country ISO_A3 codes. Each id identifies a single sub-region, so a
+ * border can shift one region at a time; a gained region is moved out of
+ * whichever nation currently owns it, and a lost region with no matching
+ * gainer simply becomes unowned (no-man's-land).
+ */
 export interface TerritoryChange {
   nation: string;
   gain: string[];
@@ -48,26 +54,31 @@ export interface TurnResult {
   territoryChanges: TerritoryChange[];
 }
 
-/** Per-region map payload: ISO_A3 -> owning nation + its stable color. */
+/** Per-region map payload: **sub-region id** -> owning nation + its stable color. */
 export interface RegionOwner {
   color: string;
   owner: string;
   ownerId: string;
 }
+/**
+ * The authoritative region→owner map, **keyed by sub-region id** (e.g. `FR-57`).
+ * Every sub-region any nation owns appears here; a sub-region in no nation's
+ * territory is absent (unowned / no-man's-land) and rendered grey by the map.
+ */
 export type RegionMap = Record<string, RegionOwner>;
 
 /**
  * Look up the owner record from the authoritative RegionMap by a RegionMap key.
- * The RegionMap is keyed by the **parent country's** ISO_A3 code (ownership and
+ * The RegionMap is keyed by the **sub-region's own id** (e.g. `FR-57` — never a
- * the LLM stay at country granularity — see #16), so `key` is a country code such
+ * bare ISO_A3 like `FRA`, and never the repacked numeric `feature.id`), so `key`
- * as `DEU`, never a sub-region id such as `DEU-03`. Returns `undefined` for an
+ * is a sub-region id such as `FR-57`. Returns `undefined` for an empty/missing
- * empty/missing key or an unowned country.
+ * key or an unowned region (one in no nation's territory).
  *
  * Pure + shared: the primitive "key → owner" lookup. The *map feature → owner*
- * resolution (deciding which key to pass) lives in {@link mapFeatureOwner} below,
+ * resolution (deciding which key to pass) lives in {@link mapFeatureOwner}
- * which reads the feature's `properties.parent` — never the repacked top-level
+ * below, which reads the feature's `properties.regionId` — never the repacked
- * `id` (MapLibre turns it into a numeric index, the "no owner" bug #6) and never
+ * top-level `id` (MapLibre turns it into a numeric index, the "no owner" bug
- * the sub-region id.
+ * #6).
  */
 export function regionOwner(regions: RegionMap, key: string | null | undefined): RegionOwner | undefined {
   if (!key) return undefined;
@@ -76,22 +87,22 @@ export function regionOwner(regions: RegionMap, key: string | null | undefined):
 
 /**
  * Resolve the owning-nation record for a **rendered map feature** from the
- * authoritative RegionMap. The choropleth renders sub-national regions, but the
+ * authoritative RegionMap. Ownership is now at **sub-region** granularity, so a
- * RegionMap is keyed by the *parent country's* ISO_A3 (not the sub-region's own
+ * feature's owner is found via its **own sub-region id** — the client stamps
- * id), so a feature's owner is found via its `properties.parent` (the ISO_A3 the
+ * the feature's id into `properties.regionId` (see WorldMap `applyRegions`), and
- * client stamps from the GeoJSON `parent` property — see WorldMap) and then
+ * we look that up with `regionOwner`. This is the single shared source of truth
- * `regionOwner`. This is the single shared source of truth for that resolution,
+ * for that resolution, so the "use `properties.regionId`, never the repacked
- * so the "use `parent`, never the sub-region `id`/repacked `feature.id`" rule
+ * top-level `feature.id` (a MapLibre numeric index, the "no owner" bug #6)" rule
  * lives in one tested place rather than in the React component.
  *
- * Returns `undefined` for a missing feature/parent or an unowned country.
+ * Returns `undefined` for a missing feature/regionId or an unowned region.
  */
 export function mapFeatureOwner(
   regions: RegionMap,
-  feature: { properties?: { parent?: unknown } } | null | undefined,
+  feature: { properties?: { regionId?: unknown } } | null | undefined,
 ): RegionOwner | undefined {
-  const parent = feature?.properties?.parent;
+  const regionId = feature?.properties?.regionId;
-  return regionOwner(regions, typeof parent === 'string' ? parent : '');
+  return regionOwner(regions, typeof regionId === 'string' ? regionId : '');
 }
 
 /** Server -> client Server-Sent Events payload (see server/index.ts /sse). */

shared/types.ts

@@ -26,8 +26,15 @@ export const RELATION_STATUSES: RelationStatus[] = [
 ];
 
 /**
- * A single nation in the world. `territory` holds ISO_A3 codes; the map colors
+ * A single nation in the world. `territory` holds **sub-region ids** (e.g.
- * each of those regions with this nation's stable color (see protocol.nationColor).
+ * `FR-57`) — one entry per individually-ownable sub-region, at sub-region
+ * granularity rather than whole-country ISO_A3. The map colors each sub-region
+ * with this nation's stable color (see protocol.nationColor). At scenario start
+ * a nation owns **all** sub-regions of the countries it holds (the server
+ * expands each ISO_A3 to its sub-regions; see server/regions.expandTerritory),
+ * so no region starts unowned. A sub-region that is in **no** nation's list is
+ * unowned (no-man's-land) — the map renders it grey and it can be gained or
+ * lost region-by-region by the LLM.
  */
 export interface Nation {
   id: string;

src/components/WorldMap.tsx

@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ import { cn } from '@/lib/utils';
 
 // Minimal GeoJSON types (avoids a hard @types/geojson dependency). The choropleth
 // source is the sub-national `regions.geo.json`: each feature is a sub-region with
-// a top-level `id` of the form `<ISO_A3>-<nn>` (e.g. `FRA-03`) and
+// a stable top-level `id` (ISO 3166-2 style, e.g. `FR-57`, `US-AK`) and
 // `properties = { name, parent }` where `parent` is the parent country's ISO_A3.
+// As of v0.19 the top-level `id` is also the RegionMap key: ownership (and the
+// LLM) live at sub-region granularity, so a nation owns individual sub-regions.
 interface GeoFeature {
   type: 'Feature';
   id?: string | number;
@@ -101,38 +103,42 @@ function cameraForPreset(presetId: string): { center: [number, number]; zoom: nu
 
 /**
  * Stamp the current ownership + colors onto a clone of the sub-national base geo.
- * Ownership and the LLM stay at **country** granularity (#16, PR 2): a nation
+ * Since v0.19 ownership and the LLM live at **sub-region** granularity: a nation
- * owns whole countries, so every sub-region of a country shares that country's
+ * owns individual sub-region ids, so each sub-region carries the color of the
- * owning nation's color — the map looks like the old country choropleth, but
+ * nation that owns that exact sub-region (a country can now be split between
- * subdivided into finer cells. Each sub-region therefore carries:
+ * nations, and a sub-region in no nation's territory renders grey). Each
+ * sub-region therefore carries:
  *
- *  - `regionId`  – its own sub-region id (e.g. `FRA-03`), kept in a property that
+ *  - `regionId`  – its own sub-region id (e.g. `FR-57`), kept in a property that
  *                  survives into the features MapLibre hands back on click/hover
- *                  (the top-level `id` is repacked into a numeric index, #6);
+ *                  (the top-level `id` is repacked into a numeric index, #6) —
- *  - `parent`    – the parent country's ISO_A3 (e.g. `FRA`), the RegionMap key;
+ *                  and the **RegionMap key** the owner is resolved through;
- *  - `fill`      – the owning nation's stable color (from `RegionMap[parent]`);
+ *  - `parent`    – the parent country's ISO_A3 (e.g. `FRA`); a static geographic
- *  - `owner`/`ownerId` – that nation's name/id (empty for an unowned country);
+ *                  fact shown in the dossier label, **not** used for ownership;
+ *  - `fill`      – the owning nation's stable color (from `RegionMap[regionId]`);
+ *  - `owner`/`ownerId` – that nation's name/id (empty for an unowned sub-region);
  *  - `stroke`    – a per-border alpha (owned brighter than unowned);
  *  - `isPlayer`  – 1 when the owning nation is the player (drives the amber
  *                  player-highlight border).
  *
- * Crucially, the owner lookup keys the RegionMap by `properties.parent` (the
+ * Crucially, the owner lookup keys the RegionMap by the feature's **own
- * country ISO_A3), **never** by the sub-region id — the RegionMap has no
+ * sub-region id** (as `properties.regionId` at interaction time, via
- * `FRA-03` entries, only `FRA`.
+ * `mapFeatureOwner` in @shared/protocol) — **never** by the repacked top-level
+ * `id` (a MapLibre numeric index, #6) and **never** by the parent country code.
  */
 function applyRegions(geo: FeatureCollection, regions: RegionMap, playerNationId: string): FeatureCollection {
   const out: FeatureCollection = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(geo));
   for (const f of out.features) {
     f.properties = f.properties ?? {};
-    // The sub-region's own id (e.g. `FRA-03`) — stamped into a property that
+    // The sub-region's own id (e.g. `FR-57`) — stamped into a property that
     // survives into the rendered features (the top-level `id` gets repacked).
-    const subId = f.id == null ? '' : String(f.id);
+    const regionId = f.id == null ? '' : String(f.id);
-    f.properties.regionId = subId;
+    f.properties.regionId = regionId;
-    // Ownership lives at the parent country: resolve `properties.parent`
+    // The parent country's ISO_A3 (e.g. `FRA`) — a static geographic fact used
-    // (the ISO_A3) against the RegionMap. Never the sub-region id.
+    // for the dossier label only; ownership is resolved by `regionId`.
     const parent = typeof f.properties.parent === 'string' ? f.properties.parent : '';
     f.properties.parent = parent;
-    const r = parent ? regions[parent] : undefined;
+    const r = regionId ? regions[regionId] : undefined;
     if (r) {
       f.properties.fill = r.color;
       f.properties.owner = r.owner;
@@ -151,17 +157,15 @@ function applyRegions(geo: FeatureCollection, regions: RegionMap, playerNationId
 }
 
 /**
- * Build a FeatureCollection of just the sub-regions whose **parent** country is
+ * Build a FeatureCollection of just the sub-regions whose **own sub-region id**
- * in `parents` (cloned). Used by the territory-change flash: a turn changes a
+ * is in `regionIds` (cloned). Used by the territory-change flash: since v0.19
- * whole *country* (the RegionMap is ISO_A3-keyed), so a changed country's code
+ * a turn changes individual sub-regions (the RegionMap is keyed by sub-region
- * must light up **all** of its sub-regions, not a single feature.
+ * id), so each changed id lights up exactly its feature — no expansion to a
+ * whole country needed.
  */
-function featuresByParents(geo: FeatureCollection, parents: Iterable<string>): FeatureCollection {
+function featuresByRegionIds(geo: FeatureCollection, regionIds: Iterable<string>): FeatureCollection {
-  const set = new Set(parents);
+  const set = new Set(regionIds);
-  const features = geo.features.filter((f) => {
+  const features = geo.features.filter((f) => f.id != null && set.has(String(f.id)));
-    const parent = f.properties?.parent;
-    return typeof parent === 'string' && set.has(parent);
-  });
   return { type: 'FeatureCollection', features: JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(features)) };
 }
 
@@ -175,11 +179,11 @@ function statRow(label: string, value?: number): string {
 
 /**
  * Compact hover tooltip: the sub-region's name, its **current owner**
- * (color-chipped), and 1–2 key stats. When the region's country has no owning
+ * (color-chipped), and 1–2 key stats. When the region has no owning nation, a
- * nation, a minimal "No owner" card is shown instead. The static
+ * minimal "No owner" card is shown instead. The static parent-country code
- * parent-country code (`properties.parent`) is deliberately NOT printed here —
+ * (`properties.parent`) is deliberately NOT printed here — it is a geographic
- * it never updates when ownership is transferred, so only the live owner chip
+ * fact that never updates when ownership is transferred, so only the live
- * (resolved from the RegionMap) is shown.
+ * owner chip (resolved from the RegionMap by sub-region id) is shown.
  */
 function hoverHtml(subRegionName: string, region?: RegionOwner, nation?: Nation): string {
   if (!region || !nation) {
@@ -203,11 +207,12 @@ interface Props {
   className?: string;
   /**
    * Called with a region's owning-nation id when a sub-region is clicked, so the
-   * dossier switches to that nation. For a sub-region, the owner is the parent
+   * dossier switches to that nation. Since v0.19 the owner is the nation that
-   * country's owning nation. The optional `info` carries the clicked sub-region's
+   * owns that very sub-region (resolved from the RegionMap by sub-region id).
-   * own id/name and its parent country's ISO_A3, for a small "which region" label
+   * The optional `info` carries the clicked sub-region's own name and its parent
-   * in the dossier. Not called for unowned regions (the dossier keeps its
+   * country's ISO_A3, for a small "which region" label in the dossier. Not
-   * current target). See the component doc for the full behavior.
+   * called for unowned regions (the dossier keeps its current target). See the
+   * component doc for the full behavior.
    */
   onFocusNation?: (id: string, info?: { parent?: string; name?: string }) => void;
 }
@@ -216,24 +221,25 @@ interface Props {
  * World basemap (MapLibre GL) + a **sub-national** choropleth. The map renders
  * the finer `regions.geo.json` dataset: each country is subdivided into
  * ~100–200 km sub-regions, drawn as a finer choropleth with thin internal border
- * lines. Ownership and the LLM stay at **country** granularity (#16, PR 2): a
+ * lines. Since v0.19 ownership and the LLM live at **sub-region** granularity:
- * nation owns whole countries, so all of a country's sub-regions share that
+ * a nation owns individual sub-region ids, so each feature is filled with the
- * country's owning-nation color. Rendered as a fixed, full-viewport background
+ * color of the nation owning that exact sub-region (a country can be split
- * layer (z-0) behind the floating HUD windows: a dark-navy basemap with subtle
+ * between nations; unowned sub-regions render grey). Rendered as a fixed,
- * terrain, per-nation stable fills (uniform per country, the choropleth is the
+ * full-viewport background layer (z-0) behind the floating HUD windows: a
- * star), thin sub-region borders, a brighter/thicker amber border for the
+ * dark-navy basemap with subtle terrain, per-region stable fills (the
- * player's countries, a hover tooltip (sub-region name + current owner
+ * choropleth is the star), thin sub-region borders, a brighter/thicker amber
- * + key stats), a **click that switches the dossier to the sub-region's parent
+ * border for the player's regions, a hover tooltip (sub-region name + current
- * country's owning nation** (no popup — see #7), a transient flash when a
+ * owner + key stats), a **click that switches the dossier to the sub-region's
- * country's owner changes (lighting up all its sub-regions), and a per-scenario
+ * owning nation** (no popup — see #7), a transient flash when a region's owner
+ * changes (lighting up exactly the changed features), and a per-scenario
  * initial camera.
  *
  * Ownership for a hovered/clicked sub-region is resolved from the authoritative
- * RegionMap by its **parent country's** ISO_A3 code (`properties.parent`, via
+ * RegionMap by the feature's **own sub-region id** (`properties.regionId`, via
  * `mapFeatureOwner` in @shared/protocol) — never from the feature's top-level
- * `id` (MapLibre repacks it into a numeric index at interaction time, #6) and
+ * `id` (MapLibre repacks it into a numeric index at interaction time, #6).
- * never from the sub-region id (not a RegionMap key). Unowned countries (no
+ * Unowned sub-regions (no RegionMap entry for the id) simply do not change the
- * RegionMap entry for the parent) simply do not change the dossier.
+ * dossier.
  *
  * Zoom and pan are driven directly by the user (MapLibre wheel/trackpad + drag)
  * — no floating control and no external API.
@@ -307,14 +313,14 @@ export default function WorldMap({
     const emptyFC = (): FeatureCollection => ({ type: 'FeatureCollection', features: [] });
 
     // Transient flash: pulse a bright outline over the changed regions, then fade
-    // to zero over a few seconds and self-clean. Idempotent per call. `codes` are
+    // to zero over a few seconds and self-clean. Idempotent per call. `codes`
-    // parent-country ISO_A3 codes (a turn changes whole countries); each lights
+    // are sub-region ids (the RegionMap keys that changed owner since the last
-    // up all of that country's sub-regions.
+    // update); each lights up exactly its feature.
     function animateFlash(codes: string[]) {
       const geo = baseGeoRef.current;
       const src = map.getSource(FLASH_SOURCE) as GeoSource | undefined;
       if (!geo || !src || cancelled) return;
-      src.setData(featuresByParents(geo, codes));
+      src.setData(featuresByRegionIds(geo, codes));
       if (!map.getLayer(FLASH_LINE)) {
         // Defensive re-add (normally created by ensureLayers). Keep it beneath the
         // hover highlight when that layer exists; otherwise just append.
@@ -349,10 +355,10 @@ export default function WorldMap({
 
     // The sub-region a hovered/clicked feature belongs to is identified by its
     // stable sub-region id in `properties.regionId` (stamped by `applyRegions`),
-    // and its **owner** is resolved from the authoritative RegionMap via the
+    // and its **owner** is resolved from the authoritative RegionMap via that
-    // feature's `properties.parent` (the parent country's ISO_A3) through
+    // same `properties.regionId` through `mapFeatureOwner` — since v0.19 the
-    // `mapFeatureOwner` — never from the repacked top-level `id` (a numeric
+    // RegionMap is keyed by the sub-region's own id. Never the repacked
-    // index, #6) and never from the sub-region id (not a RegionMap key).
+    // top-level `id` (a numeric index, #6).
     const onHover = (e: maplibregl.MapLayerMouseEvent) => {
       const f = e.features?.[0];
       if (!f) return;
@@ -386,10 +392,9 @@ export default function WorldMap({
     };
 
     // #7: a click does NOT open a popup — it switches the dossier to the region's
-    // owning nation. For a sub-region, the owner is the **parent country's**
+    // owning nation. Since v0.19 the owner is the nation that owns **this**
-    // owning nation, resolved from `properties.parent` (the ISO_A3) via the
+    // sub-region, resolved from `properties.regionId` via the RegionMap (never
-    // RegionMap (never the repacked top-level `f.id`, #6, and never the
+    // the repacked top-level `f.id`, #6). A sub-region with no owner leaves the
-    // sub-region id). A sub-region whose parent country has no owner leaves the
     // current dossier target unchanged — never a broken dossier.
     const onClick = (e: maplibregl.MapLayerMouseEvent) => {
       const f = e.features?.[0];
@@ -455,9 +460,9 @@ export default function WorldMap({
       if (!map.getLayer(FILL_LAYER)) {
         // The choropleth is the star: a high opacity so the vivid per-nation
         // colors read clearly even on the dark background / over the terrain.
-        // Every sub-region carries its parent country's owner color, so a whole
+        // Since v0.19 each sub-region carries the color of the nation owning
-        // country reads as one uniform fill — same as the old country map, but
+        // that exact sub-region, so a country taken at region level shows the
-        // subdivided.
+        // split directly in the fill.
         map.addLayer({
           id: FILL_LAYER,
           type: 'fill',
@@ -537,10 +542,10 @@ export default function WorldMap({
     };
   }, []);
 
-  // Re-color the choropleth whenever ownership changes, and flash any country
+  // Re-color the choropleth whenever ownership changes, and flash any sub-region
-  // (all of its sub-regions) whose owner changed since the last update (a
+  // whose owner changed since the last update (a transient, self-cleaning pulse).
-  // transient, self-cleaning pulse). The diff is over the ISO_A3-keyed RegionMap;
+  // The diff is over the sub-region-id-keyed RegionMap; `animateFlash` lights up
-  // `animateFlash` expands each changed country to every one of its sub-regions.
+  // exactly the features whose own id changed owner.
   useEffect(() => {
     const map = mapRef.current;
     const geo = baseGeoRef.current;
@@ -557,8 +562,8 @@ export default function WorldMap({
 
     if (wasPrimed && prev) {
       const changed = new Set<string>();
-      for (const code of new Set([...Object.keys(prev), ...Object.keys(cur)])) {
+      for (const regionId of new Set([...Object.keys(prev), ...Object.keys(cur)])) {
-        if ((prev[code]?.ownerId ?? '') !== (cur[code]?.ownerId ?? '')) changed.add(code);
+        if ((prev[regionId]?.ownerId ?? '') !== (cur[regionId]?.ownerId ?? '')) changed.add(regionId);
       }
       if (changed.size > 0) flashApiRef.current?.([...changed]);
     }