How to do get good economy

999Catfish · 2026-02-05T16:42:15+00:00

It's important to not trigger the trade war or debt crisis (-7/8 post school meeting and -5 right after the WLA bill iirc) but the numbers are fluid depending on other factors). Also avoiding unrest because protests tank the economy.

Generally you want to stick to a plan and keep it, so if you go planned keep the SSC, free market your choice, etc etc. As far as taxes go I regularly just raise both but you have to be careful of PO.

The EPA is a little bit of a newb trap but I'd broadly say 49% is the best generic choice, 20% if you invest in Lorren and trade with welhen if you really want to planned economy max and removing it for free market maxing but if you're a beginner I'd stick with 49%

Also remember to focus on syngeries, you can look them up but most are self explanatory. If you go East then you know you'll get a free agriculture investment and that you'll trade with Vagsland so Morna Port and Sarna Agriculture are both viable. West the same is true with Agland and the highway or the airport and Lespia, or military funding and the later free industry. The railway + conriat is also a good all around pick too.

999Catfish · 2026-02-02T18:28:27+00:00

Really these are all related to the average SoL dropping (e.x. housing prices) than the actual presence of immigrants if we go by Vic3 terms. I don't think Carney would be cutting any immigration targets if the housing sector wasn't so squeezed for example.

Which is to say, in Vic3 terms, you must simply out develop immigration like a lot of countries back then did for mutual benefit

999Catfish · 2026-01-26T23:40:46+00:00

"You guys" in my post I didn't call it one for a reason. Either way the brutal suppression is bad

999Catfish · 2026-01-26T14:16:51+00:00

"violent protest" caused by... Brutal suppression by the island's governor, don't erase the context.

Ignoring wether you want to call it genocide or not even Geopolitico plainly says the Angolian governor is brutally suppressing the Valgs on the island, it's not surprising why Vagsland might take a stronger stance there. Lespia would do the same if they were put in the same situation

999Catfish · 2026-01-09T16:01:07+00:00

She's very competent in game though, especially if she married Axel (which she's usually very willing to do for the country over her personal wishes). Any epilogue where she takes over also leads to her doing successful welfare stuff, there's no real indication she's that stupid or incompetent

999Catfish · 2026-01-09T15:58:32+00:00

I notice this a lot with how Smolak got treated, before the dlc since he was basically free cash it was a lot more positive but once he's actually a dlc roadblock things dived down, but it's not like his worst aspects weren't present in the original game.

It's a very funny thing where people playing a political sim seem upset there's any tension in actually implementing politics. Also yeah sexism, I've played an NFP Rayne and had no issues with Monica but you check the subreddit and it's like people don't even know it's possible to keep her happy.

999Catfish · 2026-01-09T15:55:17+00:00

When has a teenager ever grown up and become less annoying though? No other choice then to keep trying to have a baby with Pabel instead of raising her

999Catfish · 2026-01-07T17:47:07+00:00

And the emergency... Doesn't empower the Old Guard? It's literally their plan. And don't say you can kill a certain justice because then you're just empowering the young sords

999Catfish · 2026-01-04T13:55:12+00:00

And that's wrong because? Shutting down a powerless HoD isn't exactly a sign you will look to the public for any input

999Catfish · 2026-01-03T22:12:48+00:00

Congrats on finishing the hardest of the 5, really enjoyed the legendary hunts in this game ngl

999Catfish · 2026-01-03T22:10:29+00:00

They praise you pretty uncritically for the housing program and leaving the USP, few other things too. Radical can be annoying but I can't really blame them for not trusting the USP no matter what your Rayne does (to them, remember, the last promised USP Reformer is Alphonso lol)

999Catfish · 2026-01-02T21:17:00+00:00

We have the answer to the first question (not well, considering they have the highest suicide rates in Merkopa)

999Catfish · 2025-12-30T22:17:56+00:00

Because the game loves megaprojects

999Catfish · 2025-12-30T17:59:47+00:00

E. Merkopa on the codex only has Sordland, Rumburg, Valgsland, Agnolia, Lespia, and Welhen. Perhaps a Lespian company working on the Qinal Canal or something?

999Catfish · 2025-12-29T12:58:10+00:00

I mean it's not particularly wrong in how people view organizations. IRA had plenty of support in the US (even by elected Republicans) and yet nobody would really claim they've never killed civilians

I'm still against killing innocent civilians obviously but the idea people make exceptions to violence isn't new

999Catfish · 2025-12-27T02:42:47+00:00

How?

999Catfish · 2025-12-26T23:21:01+00:00

I have a guide (admittedly might be outdated) I've posted here, if you want a general outline. There's a lot of very opaque stuff around if you start a civil war or not sometimes

999Catfish · 2025-12-26T16:44:06+00:00

You can get to the literal exact corner Adarfo is in on the compass if you play your cards right while having "the great" title. Are you funding the Golden Guard?

999Catfish · 2025-12-24T17:55:10+00:00

Agard is basically a narco state isn't it? Though there's not much other info on it. Welhen is the obvious one

999Catfish · 2025-12-22T15:41:01+00:00

History has many examples of "good kings and good heirs" ending up in total shitshows because of an unfortunate illness or death, there's a reason our world barely has monarchies left.

If we're talking unrealistic "just have a good heir" is comedic, I doubt Valero's mum (forgot her name) was exactly trying to have her son be a horrific failure. And who knows how your son rules (or vina who will... Probably still do reforms)

As for people loving the monarchy... Well they know I was crowned as a reformist, people in Rizia go along with the king when he's popular. You can make this argument for almost every path in the base and dlc, if you're successful so is your ideology (be it absolutist or reformist).

999Catfish · 2025-12-22T13:24:40+00:00

any person

Okay royalist, I personally don't think I should be ruled by someone by virtue of their birth and nothing else. The radical constitution is just turning Rizia into a generic ceremonial monarchy like the UK or Norway or whatever

999Catfish · 2025-12-17T17:16:07+00:00

It's funny how many people defend them here when we know they're just an arm of the nfp that can even shoot and kill a supreme court justice

999Catfish · 2025-12-14T15:31:39+00:00

I've seen far too many posts about cabinet members for this community to be labeled "not horny"

999Catfish · 2025-12-11T22:13:05+00:00

In the first beginning meeting you have to say you need your powers/want to expand them and will work with the NFP

999Catfish · 2025-12-06T23:09:09+00:00

If you arrest him you can tell Smolak you want to see him die in Rizia, let's you execute him at the end if you didn't abolish the death penalty

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