Politics
Who holds power, how it changes hands, and the laws that set every national lever.
Coups and Power StrugglesImplementedNo faction takes power out of nowhere. Every seizure of power runs through a flashpoint first: a secret coup plot, a public power struggle, or a rising. When it comes to the strike, the armed forces decide who wins.Faction ActionsImplementedFaction actions are direct moves on a single faction: rallying your base, courting or smearing rivals, outlawing or co-opting a movement, cracking down, or, abroad, inciting an uprising or backing a coup.
CorruptionImplementedCorruption is the share of what the state collects that never arrives. It is high in poor countries and colonies, falls as they develop, and laws and factions push it up or down.ElectionsImplementedWhere the law allows them, elections turn popular support into governmental power on a fixed schedule, through the country's electoral system, after a three-month campaign.LegitimacyImplementedLegitimacy is whether a country's order is accepted as rightful. It protects a government against coups, uprisings and power struggles, and a government that loses it has to rule by force.PoliciesImplementedNational law is a set of policy choices across economy, politics, society, welfare and the military. You hold one option per policy set and change it through a reform that takes months and can go wrong along the way.Political CapitalImplementedPolitical capital is what a government spends to change anything: reforms, focuses, faction actions, diplomacy. It comes from the factions that back you, and the daily income is capped.RegionsImplementedProvinces are grouped into named historical and administrative regions, such as states, oblasts, occupation sectors and overseas territories. A region can carry modifiers for all its provinces, can be autonomous and keep part of its taxes, and is a target for regional diplomat campaigns.StabilityImplementedStability measures how settled a country's political order is. Low stability erodes the ruling party's support in every province, and stability that outruns legitimacy breeds unrest unless the state represses.UnrestImplementedUnrest is measured in every province and driven above all by whether the economy meets expectations. It cuts output and revenue, feeds faction agitation and crises, and can be calmed by policy, garrisons or force.