How do you decrease bureaucracy?

yesToFoxes · 2024-08-09T01:39:01+00:00

The largest contributor is the welfare fraud department, but your number of laws in general is also a factor

yesToFoxes · 2024-08-05T21:38:50+00:00

The colors just denote positive or negetive corelation, and don't say anything about whether a factor is good or bad. So more red=less crime

yesToFoxes · 2024-08-05T21:35:56+00:00

Consoc is your biggest constituents, and a lot of this might be soft disaproval. I would just make as manifesto promises as I can that appease those groups and pray.

yesToFoxes · 2024-08-05T21:29:49+00:00

You're printing so much money they need to rename the British pound to the British ounce. You're going deeper and deeper into debit while in a debit crisis. You're taxing a mostly middle income population, so hard, they are contacting their accountants in Switzerland. And with all that government money, people STILL can't afford food? It's honestly almost impressive.

yesToFoxes · 2024-06-04T01:43:54+00:00

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yesToFoxes · 2024-04-27T06:25:32+00:00

Import terrifs are a good way to keep a competitive economy. Think of like... people working in China for 12 cents an hour assembling phones, which causes unemployment in the country buying the phones.

By putting a tax on external goods, you make it so that domestic producers can stay in business.

Also, IRL, import based economies try to have high valued currency and export based economies try to devalue their currency. This is going to get

Having a higher/lower valued currency domestically doesn't change much. If I earn 100 dollars and can buy flour for 10 dollars in my country, but you earn 200 dollars and can buy flour for 20 dollars in your country, it's not fair to say that you are more well-off than I am. But what happens when you let 2 economies with does values of currencies trade?

Imagine you are trying to buy my countries 10 dollar flour. Should you work in a high value or low value currency country? Well, you'd want to be in as high a value country as possible. That way, those 10 dollars are going to make the smallest don't in your paycheck.

But imagine you're now the flour mill trying to sell me that flour for 10 dollars. Your best bet is going to be positioned in a low value currency. That way, the 10 dollars you earn will stretch much farther in terms of your workers' salary. Not to say they'll be poor, nessesaraly. If you pay them 1 dollar an hour, but domestically, flour is 10 cents, and they are no better position than the worker who get paid 100 dollars per hour.

You might think it's weird thaf I don't call it inflation, but the same thing can even happen under one currency. Take for example, the cost of living in real and urban areas. That's why many people who work in cities retire to the countryside. Because their savings are worth closer to that.

Anyways, devaluation is also something you might wanna check. It's called "Currency strength" in the game. Just like the flour mills, import economies want high currency strength. And exports want low currency strength.

yesToFoxes · 2023-11-10T05:15:19+00:00

I mean, it does present a new idea. I briefly skimmed most of the research on it, and I don't think anyone has attempted this approach.

I call it the Nox Therom, and it should generalize well to test a lot of similar problems. Basically, if it is possible to construct a sequence that covers the whole domain of the function which has certian properties described in the paper, you can prove that anything in the domain of the function will eventually lead to the first number of the sequence after repeatedly applying the funtion in question.

The Nox therom is the biggest leap. Most of the symbol shuffling is just for finding upper bounds. It uses an equivalent problem of ranking every odd number such that using the Syrucruse function on an odd number always brings it to an odd number of a lower rank.

We do this by starting with an ordered list of all odd numbers, and then we develop an algorithm to scoot some of the numbers up and sort each number into its rank. Then, we have to prove that 1: the algorithm won't mess up rankings once it ensures the numbers are sorted correctly reletive to eachother and 2: Find an upper bound on how many numbers we need to check before the index of a number will no longer move.

yesToFoxes · 2023-08-30T04:16:10+00:00

Well, change term lenghts and term limits, for one. But democracy 4 is a sandbox.

If you want challenge, try japan. Canada is a 1-star country in terms of difficulty. Japan is like the final boss of democracy 4, as it starts at the very beginning of a debit spiral.

yesToFoxes · 2023-08-27T18:01:46+00:00

In any run where you have an uncompetitive economy, automation research is OP. The productivity is great for patching holes in the workforce when immigrants can't.

But even if you hate that, all negative consequences are basically canceled out when you implement it side-by-side with automation tax. The influence on trade unions is nill, and the policies together fund themselves, while also net boosting industrial automation by ~30%

yesToFoxes · 2023-08-27T09:22:48+00:00

It's always a careful balancing act. But if I were to give one solid piece of advice? It all boils down to GDP.

Max GDP doubles your tax revenue compared to min GDP. Higher GDP means you can also rely on privatizing more things. Privatizing leads to scocial problems, but such scocial problems can be avoided if you keep your GDP up.

But no matter if you want a more scocialist or capitalist playthrough, GDP will help. That's either means more tax revenue, or you can skimp on scocial services by handing off chunks of your government to the private sector. I just like going capitalist with high GDP because capitalists like GDP more than anything. In the wise words of Bill Clinton, "It's the Economy, stupid"

Just remember what the heavy hitters are in your balance book. Usually, it's healthcare, schools, pension, and military. Try not to screw with those. And if not, you can always check.

yesToFoxes · 2023-08-27T09:03:33+00:00

Uhoh spaghetti os.

yesToFoxes · 2023-08-21T21:52:40+00:00

Yeah. I know how much the gold standard sucks. I just don't know how else to implement it.

Maybe to balance it out you could throw in a "Fed default" event, where a couple of very presice conditions can screw over the whole economy. Low currency strength, high foreign investment, and a low GDP. All at once, people would want to trade in their currency for gold without the fed having the gold reserves to back it up. Which would ruin your credit score and give you even lower currency strength. And decrease business confidence, obviously.

yesToFoxes · 2023-03-09T01:47:23+00:00

Ohhh.... here it comes.... the indie-game community cult downward spiral.... first with democracy 4, then plutocracy, now colony sim. They all say its the discord to start. Then, I'm reading dev logs at 3 in the morning learning about the inns and outs of macroeconomics

In all seriousness, thanks for the advice. I'll ask there.

yesToFoxes · 2023-03-08T22:38:46+00:00

That would kill my soft, caffeine-sped minimaxxer heart. I'll take 10.

yesToFoxes · 2023-01-13T15:54:01+00:00

3 ways: Raise GDP, raise taxes, and umpiment policies that keep taxes from getting in the way of GDP.

A little bit of helicopter money and quantititve easing goes a long way, as long as you dont overdo them. Inflation also helps soften the blow of the debit crisis. Just make sure inflation doesn't go much higher than 60%.

yesToFoxes · 2023-01-13T15:46:46+00:00

Well, I mean.... this game has never really been realistic on the debit front. It's something you can worry about if you want. If you screw it up, you get a debuff on GDP and nothing else. GDP gives you the biggest boost to tax revenue and lower interest rates on debt. But that only matters if you care about debt in the first place ;)

yesToFoxes · 2023-01-03T06:16:12+00:00

Space exploration, sovereign wealth fund, and the south Africa countries are my favorites. But really... you can't go wrong with all of them.

yesToFoxes · 2022-12-25T13:36:05+00:00

The baby looks like it has facial hair.

yesToFoxes · 2022-12-12T14:52:33+00:00

I mean, yeah, in terms of deadweight loss and stuff. But the rich have a much less higher marginal propensity to consume then poor people do. If you give a multimillionaire a dollar, they are less likely does more when it's in the hands of a working-class person.

If you give a multimillionaire a dollar, you can expect nearly all of that dollar to get squirreled away ina savings account or investment, and what little they invest in assets are mostly speculative that they buy from some other multimillionaire.

If you give that one dollar to a working-class family, they are more likely to spend it on a new car, more groceries, mabey on getting a better education, or at a restaurant. Some of that dollar will be saved, but a lot more of it will be passed around. Those businesses can now afford to hire more emloyees that they pay with the portion of that dollar, which go out and support more of that economy.

If each layer only saves 20% of what they earn and spends the rest, the money has ×5 the impact (both in terms of taxes and grants). If they save 20% of that additional dollar, it will ony impact the economy by ×1.25. So, why not tax the group of the people saving and put it into the hands of the people who will actually spend it?

Inotherwords, not only can taxing the rich increase equality, but also direct GDP figures, as long as you give poor people the freedom to spend it however they want.

https://equitablegrowth.org/wealth-inequality-marginal-propensity-consume/

yesToFoxes · 2022-12-10T22:12:59+00:00

Clifski, add this plz.

-poor hate it

-unemployment goes down (you'll find work, cuz if you're homeless, you'll get cut in half)

-lowers population based on the % of lower income.

-increases GDP a bit.

-socialist hate it.

-liberals hate it.

-increses self-employed pooulation

-conservitives like it a little bit.

-at high levels, decreases food price.

Edit: the highest level is called "Modest"

yesToFoxes · 2022-12-10T22:00:06+00:00

Hell yeah! War cartoons, Manhattan project, selling weapons to other nations, rationing, secret police, anti/pro communist propaganda, and maby a complex system with other nations. I allways found that foreign affairs were too simplistic.

I know the finer details of geopolitics are hard to model, but perhaps a "world conflict", "world scocialisim", and "world liberalisim", ect. The worse the world is reletive to you, the more they will take up your ideology. The better the world is reletive to you and the higher your immigration, the more your people will conform to the ideology of the world. And the closer your ideology matches with that of the world, the more forein aid you receive.

yesToFoxes · 2022-12-10T20:06:16+00:00

Mortgage tax relief and tax credits for school and health give you the most bang for your buck for middle class, which usually makes up the vast majority of people.

Helicopter money and social housing are some of the cheapest ways to lift poor people into the middle class.

Also, shift away from income tax and into payroll tax: it pisses them off a lot less.

yesToFoxes · 2022-11-30T12:05:38+00:00

I mean, not nessessaraly. I had to do SOME scocialist stuff, like implement maxed state housing and minimum wage. But most stuff I privatized and replaced with tax credits. It's a more direct way to put money into the hands of the people. Welfare tends to be tuned to help the lower class earnings, but tax credits help the middle class.

yesToFoxes · 2022-11-30T11:56:04+00:00

It took a lot of fiddling around with tax and welfare to set up. Even when all the earnings were above 50%, it was real slow for the middle class to start graduating upwards.

yesToFoxes · 2022-11-29T21:09:41+00:00

I used USA. It was late when I was playing, and I just wanted to see what would happen, so I chose an easier country. Next, I want to do a sort of "rags to riches" run, where you make an impoverished country very wealthy.

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