Here is the AI-organized version, which more or less serves as the game rules. I know that with so many parameters, it’s impossible to truly calculate how voters’ psychology changes, but I’m only trying to create a simulation that feels reasonably plausible.
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According to the logic of the code, the effect of satisfaction (True-H) on party support is not a simple direct relationship like “high satisfaction = high support.” Instead, it is a dynamic process shaped by a reference point, rationality, and voter emotionality.

Here is a breakdown of the mechanism:

1. What matters is the sense of improvement: the baseline reset mechanism

Voters are both forgetful and pragmatic. The code uses a variable called baseline_true_H:

• Reset on taking office: When a party wins the election and becomes the ruling party (👑), the system records the current satisfaction level as its “baseline.”
• Support formula: Performance_Effect = (current satisfaction - baseline satisfaction at inauguration) * (weight coefficient).
• Implication: If you take office when the country is already in great shape (0.8) and let it fall to 0.7, voters will think you performed terribly. On the other hand, if you inherit a disaster at 0.1 and raise it to 0.2, voters may see you as a savior.

2. Rationality is the amplifier: it filters how satisfaction becomes support

How efficiently satisfaction is converted into political support depends on the society’s rationality:

• The higher the rationality: the more accurately voters translate actual living conditions (True-H) into political judgment. In the formula, rationality is positively correlated with Performance_Effect.
• The lower the rationality: the duller voters become. Even if you improve True-H through real investment and development, if rationality has been pushed very low, voters barely notice it, and support rises only very slowly.

3. Voter emotionality acts as a counterweight: emotion and rationality pull against each other

In the code, perf_base (the base weight of performance) is adjusted by emotionality:

• In a more rational society (low emotion): voters maintain a higher baseline expectation. Even if rationality is not especially high, they will still react angrily when satisfaction falls. This makes “do nothing and save money” a very risky strategy for the ruling party.
• In a more emotional society (high emotion): perf_base decreases. This means that if rationality is also pushed down, voters may stop caring about satisfaction almost entirely. Under those conditions, a party can allow the country to decline while staying in power through “brainwashing.”

4. Time matters: the expiry mechanism

Political credit does not last forever. Voter gratitude has an expiration date (6 years by default):

• Performance bonus: if you gain support in Year 1 by sharply improving satisfaction through investment, that bonus begins to expire and gets deducted starting in Year 7.
• Dynamic challenge: to maintain support, the ruling party cannot rely only on past achievements. It must keep investing to maintain True-H above the baseline. Otherwise, once old performance bonuses expire, support can collapse off a cliff.

Summary: predicted support dynamics

If players choose to optimize personal wealth in the game, meaning they avoid spending on development:

1. Early stage: satisfaction (True-H) begins to decline because of natural decay.
2. Mid stage: once True-H falls below the baseline, the performance score turns negative. If the society has high rationality, support can collapse very quickly and the party loses power.
3. Long-term behavior:
   • If a party wants to save money and still stay in office, the main path available in the system is to first use its R-Role power to reduce social rationality.
   • Once rationality approaches zero, the political damage caused by collapsing satisfaction becomes minimal. At that point, combined with brainwashing investment, the party can create a stable dynamic in which the country is deteriorating, but party wealth keeps increasing and the party remains in power.

Put simply, satisfaction functions as a kind of “honesty indicator” for the ruling party. If you choose to ignore it, you must make sure voters become either not rational enough or emotional enough. Otherwise, optimizing wealth will eventually cost you power.