[Jack Simth]

Have you tried puzzling it out with a hex editor? (e.g., write down the population, ownership, and province # of several provinces with province numbers right next to each other (e.g., 23, 24, 25, 26, ...), then search for the segment of the ftherlnd file that has numbers corrolating to those values (province number might not be present except as an implied array index; it is acceptable if that number is missing while you search); any other information about the province can be helpful as well - scales are recorded in the order they are displayed from left to right; "good"-side scales are negative (e.g., productivity 3 is -3 (single byte), while sloth-3 is 3(also single-byte))) then looking for some programmatical way to identify that section?