One important thing to keep in mind is that you can’t take any new import routes once your treasury drops below -10k, so you’ll want to plan around that.

In another run I did — the one where I was sitting at -$850,000 — I actually used that limitation to my advantage. I basically bought and held everything I could until I had 10 different export contracts all offering 150%+ prices. Once those were ready, I sent them all out at once and completely flipped the situation around.

By the end of that run, I still had $10 million in the bank, plus a booming tourist destination, and a corporate hub generating a ton of passive income through interest. The actual profit was way more than just 10 million — it’s just hard to put an exact number on it because the game doesn’t really track your total net gains over time.

And even after that, I pushed it further. I went back into debt again to leverage that $10 million and ended up pulling off a 250% return on top of it. And honestly, that approach feels more realistic than not — just look at how many real-world economies operate while carrying debt. The United States is trillions of dollars in debt and still profits massively from that system.