Imperial glory......
Basically a lower-end and not nearly as good Empire: Total war
It was released a while back, so you can get it cheap.
http://www.imperialglory.com/ (click on british link)
Oh, and there's a demo.
Europa Universalis is just the diplomacy (highly, highly improved, and deeper though) of the TW series. But it's an awesome, time consuming kingdom building game. If you endure the first 5 hours, then you can "get into it".
http://www.europauniversalis3.com/
Mount & Blade is great too, but it is more of an action game on a big scale.
Here's a list of paradox games:
http://www.paradoxplaza.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=126
So you can decide for yourself 
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