In my game with Valandia, we fought a non stop 6 years of war(Litteraly no peace inbetween, not even 1 day breaks) and due to us being at war and not having time to bulk up my finances I went into massive debts I barely got out of. While it is my first game, I would like to do **** that isn't war, like I need time to retrain armies after they all get wiped, I don't have large reserves of troops ready to go every time the AI armies are stupid and get us wiped out. I'd like to have time to go to my cities to build them up and get workshops, run trade routes, etc, but all I can do is recruit, go to the front lines, get slaughtered, get captured for the next 3 months because we can get instantly captured the moment I get out of being in jail, finally get home to recruit another army, get to the front lines, get slaughtered again, and just rinse and repeat. I was like 30k in the hole with no real way to pay that off until I found out I had massive reserves of prisoners in my jails and cities I could sell off and even that nearly wasn't enough. I didn't even complete the dragon banner well into year 9 because we were always at war with the people I needed to talk to or go to to do the missions. As is Vlandia has 3/4ths of War Band Calradia under wraps with a few colonies well into the rest of the world, it would take 3 other empires to come together in an invasion to even match our forces, so of course our clans just decide it's time for war the moment a vote pops up, even when fighting 2 other empires at the same time already.
I think the longest we have been at peace was a week?