The Basics - Domestic Matters

Domestic Factions:

Ensure that approval rating remains above 35% or suffer from riots. Need at least 40% to not lose political capital. Military dictatorships and communist totalitarian states can suppress. Public approval rating (a combination of all six factions’ ratings weighted by each faction’s strength) determines political capital created per turn. Political capital is spent on international and domestic programs.

While each country has all six factions, these factions will vary greatly in strength depending on your country’s government type and attributes. Focus on making your strongest faction happy. If the country’s territory or military units within its borders are attacked, every faction increases approval by 10 points.

Capitalists: Increased gold, steel, & oil production, free trade deals, tax cuts, less government regulation of economy

Socialists: Improvements in welfare and health, regulation of corporations, greater economic equality, international development, no free trade deals

Environmentalists: Protection of the environment, no free trade deals

Nationalists: More military spending and aggressive international actions, tough anti-crime measures, tight border security,no sacrifice of sovereignty to IGOs, protection of domestic industries

Civil Libertarians: Freedom from government control, global human rights, open borders, rehabilitation for criminals, no aggressive international acts

Intellectuals: Improvements in education and culture, increased scientific knowledge production

Extra Tips:

- Trade offers accepted will happen immediately. Technology trading means knowledge of the tech is shared.

A country can research 3 technologies at a time. You can eliminate a turn of research by paying 500 scientific knowledge.

- There are four structure types: QOL boosters, resource generators, military structures and espionage structures. It takes one turn to build a structure. Each structure needs 10% of its original price per turn to maintain.

- Big Projects are structures that can only be owned by one country and make a huge difference. To own one you must have researched the required technologies and own enough resources to afford it. You must bid X amount of each resource, and you can also use maximum bids which will auto-bid for you as you compete with other countries. No maintenance cost for big projects.

- Any country with the highest of a particular resource or domestic rating receives an award for that category.