I think it is rightfully so that the Gibraltar should be represented as a U.K. situation because
A. It should hold some precedent for “The Rock” to hold some military strategic value
B.Tourism is also a significant industry. Gibraltar is a popular port for cruise ships and attracts day visitors from resorts in Spain. The Rock is a popular tourist attraction, particularly among British tourists and residents in the southern coast of Spain.
C. Foreign relation perhaps because of it’s strategic position
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Could also be a situation for Spain.
Well Gibraltar is owned by the U.K though, even uses the pound.
Yes, but the existence of Gibraltar affects Spain a lot more than it affects the UK. To the UK, Gibraltar’s some colony of 30k people far away that it otherwise doesn’t care about. To Spain, it’s a part of its rightful country owned & colonized by a foreign power that’s exploited as a tax haven depriving it of revenue - not to mention the insult of not having control over it.
For context: Inicio this link is from a Spanish source regarding a diplomatic incident in 2013
Ah I see, but what would be the effect of Gibraltar for Spain?
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Its a good point. The UK could actually have foreign affairs crisis affecting gibraltar and also the falkland islands. Maybe we need a UK-specific ‘spain seizes gibraltar’ event for if military spending is really low and foreign relations are really low?
One of the hardest thing in Democracy 4 is ensuring that it makes political sense to spend anything at all on the military, because generally speaking if you reduce patriotism enough, you can then gut the military and save a fortune, with no repercussions 
In open debate, nobody would seriously suggest that the only thing stopping Spain from seizing the rock would be UK military power…but it has to have some impact right?
As a UK mainlander, I can attest that nobody I know cares one bit about the rock, and we mostly only care about the falklands because we hate the thought of losing a war
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