Agent

This article is accurate for the latest versions of EU3, Napoleon’s Ambition, In Nomine, Heir to the Throne and Divine Wind.

From left to right: Merchants, Colonists, Diplomats, Missionaries, Spies, Magistrates

Agents include Diplomats, Merchants, Spies, Colonists, Missionaries and Magistrates. Magistrates were added in Heir to the Throne. Each nation can have a maximum of 5 of each kind of agent at any one time. When you are at this limit, any further monthly increase will go to waste.

Divine Wind

During development of the Divine Wind expansion, it was considered to raise the number of agents one can keep in store to 9, but this idea was eventually scrapped as it was found to unbalance the game. [1][2]