Economy

Province-by-province growth, the drag of obsolescence and war, and where the money goes.

Equipment & Modernization

Every province's machinery and productive capital ages each year. Whether a country replaces it fast enough is a slow policy choice whose consequences show up a decade later.

Money & the Budget

Implemented

Revenue and spending are never sliders. They are rates of GDP set by the laws a country holds, collected from the provinces it actually controls, and settled each month into a single treasury figure that can run deep into debt.

DebtImplementedDebt is simply a negative treasury. It costs interest, grows with every deficit and shrinks with every surplus, and the budget's fiscal flex absorbs part of each month's gap by adjusting how fully laws are funded.TaxationImplementedA country's tax rate is the sum of its tax laws, capped by its tax attitude. What it actually collects depends on tax efficiency, which corruption eats into point for point.

Provincial Economy

Implemented

Every province grows or shrinks its own economy each month. A country's output is the sum of its provinces, and the province, not the nation, is where growth, disruption and unrest are decided.

DevastationImplementedWar damage to a province, from 0% to 100%. Battles, bombing and repression cause it; it cuts output, growth, population, supply and infrastructure, adds unrest, and heals only slowly in peace.Economic OutputImplementedA province's GDP is its hidden productivity times its economic output. Productivity is the slow-growing potential; output is how much of it disruption allows right now.FamineImplementedA failed harvest can strike any country in any month. Agricultural research makes famine rarer and less deadly, and the government's response decides who pays for it.InfrastructureImplementedEvery province's railroads and roads, from 0% to 100%. Countries build it through the Public Works law, wars wreck it, and it speeds growth, supply, marching and reinforcement.