Last post, collection of all my ideas, and a few of others. Any further changes that I come up with, I’ll just add to this. If there are any things which have been fixed and I have not put here, lemme know! If more things get fixed, I will add them here.
This is NOT an exhaustive list, even though it may seem like it due to its size. Some points have been duplicated in other posts, some I have not seen, due to the size of this forum. Some WIP suggestions, I have not included, etc.
Minister: Cliff Harris (Internal Affairs)
Effectiveness: 99%
Cost: -15%
Implementation Time: -15%
Delay: -15%
Implementation rate: 28/438, ~6.5% (6.436%). If there’s a sample size till 1000 non-duplicate, unrelated posts, the implementation rate would probably be higher.
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-27 million in income error, which also has no effect.
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No percentages for zero in graphs.
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QE & HM feed twice into currency strength? Once directly, and once indirectly through inflation.
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Clean Energy Subsidies don’t count towards rare earth prices (atleast not visibly).
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Bureaucracy reduces Rare Earth Prices in game, why?
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High Judicial Independence should lead to a reduction in organized crime.
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Stopping power line construction should reduce GDP (less construction, planned construction not fulfilled).
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Egalitarian Society situation should reduce poverty.
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Gets joined EU event even though in EU.
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Drug Treatment Scheme increases health at no cost when narcotics are outlawed. There should atleast be some admin overhead? (FIXED)
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Tobacco Use Does not reduce productivity (does it do so indirectly through respiratory disease, or by respiratory disease reducing health, does low health lead to low productivity?).
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State Healthcare should boost equality.
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Have a value on the tooltip for the Global Economy Graph?
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Percentage Tooltip for “current opinion of government”, like how it is for cynicism.
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Subsidizing Best Schools does not cost money.
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Some fines bring in no money (circumcision fines, fines on pollution, etc.)
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At higher values for “citizenship for sale”, “middleclass”, shouldn’t this please socialists, as it is more equal?
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Percentage tooltips does not show up for graphs, in this case when PHC is 0%.
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Rare Earth Crisis should reduce automation.
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Tourist gets stabbed event is too common, and happens when crime is zero (could be realistic, as sporadic outbursts of violence and crime take place even in low crime societies).
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Pollution should be a negative value in income for the poor/ethnic minorities and it should harm them disproportionally (like obesity), especially in the United States.
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Speed up speech reception viewing time by clicking on its menu screen, currently we have to sit through the entire graph as it gets plotted across the screen. We should be able to speed it up by clicking on it.
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Drug treatment scheme costs nothing in UK when all else is equal at the start of the game (there would still be some admin overhead, right?) (FIXED).
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Banning narcotics doesn’t lead to drug consumption.
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Cost history graphs have no tooltips!
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Won majority of the vote but still ended up in a coalition?
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Display policies which ministers would like to see implemented (like donors) to prevent huge penalties when they resign (like especially the tax minister!!!). They should ask for which policies they would like to see implemented like donors! Partially addressed, Tax Minister resigning does not now lead to a collapse in finances larger than their influence.
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Factor in CO2 emissions from Nuclear Plant construction if economy is not fully powered by green energy?
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Greater wealth in society should boost unemployment, if people have money and investments, they have a lower incentive to work.
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High speed rail subsidies should increase rail useage.
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America should have oil subsidies enabled.
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Armed police does not reduce luddite riots.
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Joining Regional Union should remove import tariff policy and vice-versa (leaving it should bring it back)?
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Social Justice Foundation should upset conservatives.
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Please make the line demarcating voter opposition and voter support far more visible, currently, it is a nearly invisible black.
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Have tooltips for electioneering graphs.
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Microgeneration grants should make a few people unhappy. Like those in the UK who did not like their view of the country-side fouled up.
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Is there a global technology value against which the situation, “technological advantage” is compared against?
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Tourist Killed In Animal Attack happens too often (or atleast it used too).
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Direct Air Capture has no influence on GDP or Employment, even though it’s bascially a huge amount of construction.
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Policies get disabled for no apparent reason in next turn.
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Donors should not demand plastic bag tax if plastic bags have been banned (FIXED).
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Key Bindings under a controls menu.
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Corruption too easy to fix.
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Minister’s backgrounds out of sync with portraits (FIXED).
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0% Private Healthcare leads to a decrease in socialist membership?
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Allowing GM Food Crops doesn’t lead to a reduction in food prices, or a boost in gdp, or an increase in farmer’s income, or an increase in farmer membership or a boost in tech. (NOW BOOSTS GDP)
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Allowing LED bulbs doesn’t increase energy efficiency.
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Food stamps don’t decrease food prices.
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Replicability Crisis Event. Caused by low science funding, as it makes scientists more likely to publish doctored findings or twist the data to suit the arbitrary p<0.05 statistical boundary for significance. Publishing gives credibility to a scientist, hence, more funding, more salary, etc.
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No way currently to electrify busses and trains in game.
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Why doesn’t generational wealth pass onto descendants?
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Why do free bus passes increase the wealth gap by such a large amount?
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Rural Development Grants should reduce crime.
Naxalism: Meaning, responsible factors and Ideology -
Have Seizure Warning for D4.
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Maternity Leave at lowest value costs nothing.
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Ratifying CO2 protocol does not reduce GDP (10% immediate reduction in CO2 emissions has no impact on the economy?).
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Third Option For Far-Right Rally-Restricted Rally.
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Third Option For Gay Cakes-Let The Courts Decide.
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Space Expenditure (and PSI) has no impact on Defence.
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Space Expenditure (and PSI) has no impact on Telecoms.
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America should have high values for disability benefit and social care due to medicare, medicaid (this could be represented by an increase in tax breaks, but I’m not 100% sure as it also includes grants and after 2 years medicaid shows to improve depression, reduce financial strain through reduction in emergency costs, etc., so maybe tax credits + social care + disability if we factor in all these three?) and veteran’s benefits.
Medicare (United States) - Wikipedia
United States Department of Veterans Affairs - Wikipedia
- Disease Outbreak should increase conservatism (Left, Right & Centre).
- France should have domestic flights banned at lowest intensity possible while still registering as, “domestic”. This is because of a new law, where all domestic flights which cover destinations which can be covered by a train in 2.5 hrs or less are now banned.
France to ban some domestic flights where train available | Climate crisis | The Guardian
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Maternity Leave at lowest possible value costs nothing.
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Raising speeds after 100% electric car transition should not increase CO2 emissions (by how much does increased speed depreciate cars? Would that lead to an increase in CO2 emissions, due to needing more new cars?).
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After full transition to electric cars, cancelling policies which boost electric car transition lead to its gradual fall. Why would people start buying gasoline cars after they have transitioned to electric fully? It probably means that the infrastructure for it exists already as well.
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Should costs of electric infrastructure for electric cars count in the road construction policy, same for petrol pumps (if not already)?
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Electric cars should boost energy industry, all that charging has to come from somewhere.
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Electric Car construction should count towards CO2 emissions. Can be offset by a policy similar to the US policy irl, “Cash For Clunkers”.
Car Allowance Rebate System - Wikipedia
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After full transition to renewable energy, Energy industry should not emit too much CO2.
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Nuclear Weapons still don’t have an impact on foreign relations.
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Higher income/wealth leads to lower automation, as people can afford human made stuff more easily?
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Higher income/wealth leads to more polarization in society as people have time to think about other things besides their day-to-day survival and supporting PACs or their equivalent?
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Flat Income Tax still has no effect on GDP, unlike “normal” income tax. This gives players an easy out.
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Should Public Tax Returns use Benford’s Law (if not already), if not too complex?
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Ban Vapes Policy (they’re banned in India, would increase tobacco use).
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Readjust minimum value of UBI to $300/person to make it more affordable (including the equivalent of $300 in other currencies). Governments do tend to do nominal things. Of course that brings up the question of whether it should even be readjusted?
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Fund Olympics Policy
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Make Mortgage Debt Relief a more general debt relief policy.
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Model Remittances from abroad?
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Private Housing Subsidies
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State Food Banks
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Food Bank Subsidies
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West & South Asian Languages sometime after the mobile release?
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Intelligence Blowback Situation, if spy expenditure is really high and foreign relations are really low.
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Why does the welfare fraud department increase bureaucracy by such a large amount?
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Recycled Plastics Subsidies (to make it competitive).
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High Investment in recycling should boost oil supply due to Plaxx.
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Waste-To-Fuel Plants
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Should the UK have adjustments for racism like the US?
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I saw Afghan interpreters translate so much more than words – now they live in terror | Clive Lewis | The Guardian.
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Violent Social Unrest from fake news?
California man charged with killing his children claimed he was ‘enlightened by QAnon’, FBI says | California | The Guardian -
Low crime creates sporadic outbursts of violence.
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Missile Defence Policy (Missile Defense for US)
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National Parks and Biodiversity Policy.
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Private Debt Crisis Situation
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Meeting or not meeting election promises should now reflect in text or as a warning along with the colour-coded notification we get.
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Gender Transition, should subsidizing be different from approval regulations?
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Abortion Subsidies
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Clicking on a minister in the cabinet, should take one to the minister’s profile, with their associated data, like what we see when we click on policies (in the top-right handside corner).
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Cancel Monarchy Option?
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Model Leakage from CCS.
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What does population do in game?
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Why is Germany much easier where balancing the budget is concerned, as opposed to the US and UK (solidarity tax does help a lot).
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Declare government debt risk free dilemma, to reduce the impact of the debt crisis?
What is a Doom Loop in the Context of Economics? - SWFI. -
Military spending should boost productivity (military Keynesianism).
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Synthetic Biology Research Grants Policy. Would reduce the cost of synthetic meat, and offend the religious/conservative less, while boosting tech.
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Nude Beaches Dilemma.
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Balance Liberals, Conservatives & Religious on the basis of self-discipline v flexibility/rigidity as well? To elaborate, liberals would have lower self-discipline, but higher flexibility, and cons/rels would be the opposite. This could be represented by the impact it would have on bureaucracy by population levels or other things. Of course, this is a simplification. For example, cons in the US are quite free about guns, and liberals in general are quite rigid about progressive values. But barring such exceptions, this can be a broad generalization for these competing groups? Or not, if too complex.
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Display policies which unhappy ministers would like to see implemented, to prevent huge reductions when they resign.
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Low public health spending leads to event, “Mother Begs For Help”. Angers everyone.
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Buy back property for redistribution policy.
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There should be a link between Privacy and ID Cards.
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Supply Chain Policies. Brexit and a certain kind of neoliberal economics caused a shortfall of 100,000 truck drivers in the UK.
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High poverty, leads to street begging event.
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Animal Policies, Welfare/General, such as Pet Subsidies, regulation of lifestock, etc.
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Flash Riots Event. Racial/EthnicTension and/or poor socioeconomic indicators while a foreign dignitary is visiting (Yes to presidential visit dilemma) leads to Flash Riots Event. Such as the 2020 Delhi Riots when Trump visited Delhi.
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Adopt Cryptocurrency As State Currency Dilemma (Like what El Salvador has done).
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More positions on all quadrants (these are not 100% accurate):
(a) Left-Liberal: Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, Nicola Sturgeon, Mahatma Gandhi, etc.
(b) Right-Liberal: Friedrich Hayek, Bill Clinton, Ludvig Von Mises, etc.
(c) Centre-Conservative: Barack Obama, Adolf Hitler, etc.
(d) Left-Cons: Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Leon Trotsky, Tony Blair, etc.
(e) Right-Cons: Thomas Hobbes, Edmund Burke, Keir Starmer, Augusto Pinochet, Winston
Churchill, Narendra Modi, Angela Merkel, etc.
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MetalSlimeHunt in the comments section of Blog #41 on Youtube suggests a policy for governing production. Which at the lowest intensity would be like the Defense Production Act in the US and at the highest intensity would be central planning (although this can happen in game by nationalizing everything, so maybe this point is moot). Aside from collective resource ownership, MSH states that this would basically complete the representation of socialist economics in D4.
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Men, Women and Gender and Sexual minorities as voter groups.
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Factor in infrastructure w.r.t economic competitiveness, unless this already represented by proxy whereby increased productivity (which is caused by infra policies) reduces economic uncompetitiveness?
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Cryptocurrency Subsidies
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Social Solidarity Subsidies: Subsidies for corporations who give workers benefits (this would encourage the wealthy, besides just the charity relief policy to reward their socialableness).
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Have option in settings to make UI softer with less sharp edges to be easier on the eyes.
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Modding tools and tutorials for easy modding.
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Solidarity Tax For All Countries. (ADDED)
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Locally Owned Debt For All Countries.
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Reverse IPO event.
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Post-Bureaucratic Politics. Similar in spirit to Plexus’ “Participatory Politics” & “Distributism” posts.
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Solidarity Tax Does Not Show Up on Tax Menu, but does in search bar.
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Military Expenditure Should Boost International Trade (Military Keynesianism)
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Education To Polarize (already was part of game)
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Comment On Steam Highlights Lack Of Police Brutality Modelling
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High Growth-Low Emissions (and other combinations)
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Make Conservative Socialism Gameplay more viable (furthermore, why does dissolving the state in D4 register as “conservative socialism”? Is this true, like National-Anarchsism?).
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Supply Side Economics Behind Debt Crisis Logic? (Impact of inflation now modelled/WIP)
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Monarchy In Spain & Japan (Partial Implementation, not as thorough as UK)
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Ban Oil & Ban NG Policies (They need to be reflected first as well)
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Great To See Worker’s Dividends! (ADDED)
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Great To See Ban Crypto! (ADDED)
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Don’t Consume Blindly, Or We Could Stagnate. My Essay On Resource Use (Resource Use Only Partially Modelled)
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Nuclear Meltdown Event? (Implemented In A Mod)
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More Entertainment Policies? (Would Be Great To See Culture Modelled As Well)
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Religious Tax Makes Socialists Happy? (Religious Socialists Would Be Happy)
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Keep The Country Tidy Campaign Is Too Effective? (Unclear Price to Effectivity ratio IRL)
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Ban Ngos Policy (Should not be misread as Negros but read as NGOs)
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International Corporate Taxation (To be represented by Windfall Tax Dilemma?)
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State Must Produce! And exports should bring money in!
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Japan Adjustments. And modelling suicide, with policies mitigating it!
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Cluster Bombs Value Broken? (Partially fixed? Now 1% instead of 4%. Still seems on the much higher side as Cluster Bombs valuation in the US is something like 0.003% of GDP or less)
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Revise Nuclear Weapons/Energy Expenditure (Case By Case Basis)?
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Religious Too Racist/Ethno-nationalist? Middle Class Too Prickly?
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Metro Rail Policy (Should Boost Urbanization Too)
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Soundtrack Expansion? (Deemed too expensive, so buy more D4 to solve this shortage! :D)
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CO2 Tax Should Bork Welfare (Reduction GDP could be proxy for this impact, but does a reduction in services, goods and GDP directly impact welfare in game?). Does GDP influence everybody’s income, so that a reduction in GDP would affect everybody?
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Banning Antibiotics Destroys Rural Paradise! (Should Probably fade with time, or be compensated by an increase in the cost of organic farming subsidies as farmer’s switch to it)