So basically I thought it might be useful to post the comprehensive base-game list of positions on various issues between Conservatives vs. Liberals and add my commentary… this came off of the back of claims that the game has a Liberal bias…
Conservatives vs. Liberals
Anti-Abortions vs. Pro-Freedom to Abortion
Pro Ban-Divorce vs. Pro-Freedom to Divorce
Pro Ban-Homosexuality vs. Pro-Freedom to Homosexuality
Pro Ban-Women-From-Driving vs. Pro-Freedom for Women to Drive
For CCTV Cameras vs Against CCTV Cameras
For Death Penalty vs. Against Death Penalty
For Drone Strikes vs. Against Drone Strikes
Against Family Planning vs. For Family Planning
For Gated Communities vs. Anti Gated Communities
Against Gender Equality vs. For Gender Equality
Against Gender Transition vs. For Gender Transition
For General Media Censorship vs. Against General Media Censorship
Against Banning Genital Mutilation vs. For Banning Genital Mutilation
For ID Cards vs. Against ID Cards
For Internet Censorship vs. Against Internet Censorship
Against Prostiution vs. For Prostitution
For Mandatory Microchips vs. Against Mandatory Microships
Outlaw Narcotics vs. Allow Narcotics
For National Service vs. Against National Service
Against Needle Exchange Programme vs. For Needle Exchange Programme
Harsh Prison regime vs. Gentle Prison regime
Against Prisoner Voting vs. for Prisoner voting
Against Race Protections vs. For Race Protections
Against Righ to Die vs. For Right to Die
For Selective Schooling vs. Against Selective Schooling
For Torture by Secret Service vs. Against Torture by Secret Service
Conservatives & Liberals
Private Prisons
Conservative only
Against Human Cloning
Against Inheritance Tax
For Married Tax Allowance
For Police Force
Against Stem Cell Research
For Welfare Fraud Dept
Liberals only
For Art Subsidies
Against Armed Police
Against banning Cryptocurrency
Against banning Foreign Church Service
Against banning Sunday shopping
Against banning tobacco
Against border controls
Against border navy
Against Border wall
Against Curfews
Against Detension without trial
Against high executive term length
Against high executive term limit
Against banning firemarms
For Food Standard Agency
Against Force Military Political Religious Oath
For unrestricted gambling
For gay marriage
Against Intelligence Services
For Judicial Independence
For Jury Trial
For Legal Aid
Against Military Spending
Against Nuclear Weapon
Against One Child Policy
For PRess Freedom
Against Prisoner Tagging
For good quality prisons
Against public religious broadcasts
Against public tax returns
Against racial profiling
For a generous refugee policy
Against religious taxes
Against religious bank notes
For the Right to Privacy
Against Rubber Bullets
Against School Prayers
Against Secret Courts
Love Atheist Schooling hate Religious Schooling
Against State Religion
Against Tasers
Against Tear Gas
Against unexplaiend wealth orders
Against water cannons
Against wire tapping
So my opinion after thinking about it this is how the game works:
Liberals hate the religious imposing on them, hate anything that smells even slightly authoritarianism, they’re for gender equality, they’re for racial equality, they are are pro-LGBT & pro-gender transition, they hate the military, they want open borders to their country & they want comfortable well-invested prisons and are against censorship.
Taken as a whole (radical) they’re basically drug-smoking hippies that want everyone to have equal rights & protections by separating the church from the state & outlawing discrimination.
Conservatives have sympathies with the religious, prefer a stronger police-like state, are against gender equality, against racial equality, are anti-LGBT and anti-gender transition, they want harsh unpleasant prisons & are for censorship.
Taken as a whole (radical) they’re basically ‘regressives’ who want crime to be crushed and criminals to be punished harshly so that they can live in a safe society where people don’t dare commit crime, they don’t mind if the state puts some restrictions in place if it means preventing society causing the collapse of ‘traditional’ family values and everyone becoming drug-addicts.
Honestly I think the game is pretty fair. The Conservatives align with the religious / patriots, whilst the Liberals? Their commitment to an Atheist State with lots of freedoms pisses off the religious a lot and their commitment to open borders pisses off the patriots a lot whilst their positions on lots of things tends to irritate the Conservatives too. In other words Liberals are hard to please.
I think that the Conservative position is actually hard to define and the game has done its best… although it definitely does lean towards a “Western Christian” side of things I think Cliff has done his best to overcome this with all the overrides he has used in countries like South Korea & Japan.