You are the government and central bank of a nation. Your goal is to govern well, score points, and survive elections.
The Five Tabs
Monetary Policy — Set interest rates and QE/QT. Higher rates slow inflation but hurt growth.
Fiscal Policy — Set tax rates and spending, including the foreign policy budget.
General Laws — Minimum wage, labour protections, immigration policy, and price controls.
Foreign Policy — Foreign aid, diplomatic stance, international organisations, and the war box.
Statistics — Full dashboard of all indicators, score breakdown, charts, and events log.
Scoring (per quarter, max 120 pts)
GDP
Higher growth = more points. Max 40 pts.
Inflation
Closest to 2% scores best. Max 30 pts.
Unemployment
Lower is always better. Max 30 pts.
Approval
Proportional to overall approval. Max 20 pts.
Approval by Group
Overall approval is the average of four ratings: Workers (wages, unemployment, min wage), Firms (corp tax, growth, regulation), Investors (CGT, rates, debt), and International Standing (foreign policy, conflicts, aid).
Foreign Policy & International Standing
International Standing (0–100) reflects your reputation abroad. It feeds into overall approval as a fourth group. Aid, diplomatic stance, organisations, and conflict decisions all affect it. Staying out of conflicts hurts standing; humanitarian aid and successful military action helps it.
Diplomatic Stance
Isolationist — Only Stay Out or Humanitarian Aid available in conflicts. Lower conflict spawn chance. Neutral — All options available. Interventionist — All options plus a small military victory bonus. Higher conflict spawn chance.
International Organisations
Free to join but each has a policy constraint. Break the constraint for a quarter and you are automatically removed with an approval hit. Trade Bloc: tariffs below 15%. Security Alliance: defence above £80bn. Development Fund: foreign aid above £8bn. Economic Union: income and corp tax within set bands.
War Box
Conflicts spawn independently each quarter (up to 2 active). Each has a threat level (1–3): Level 1 has no GDP effect; Level 2 adds GDP drag and inflation; Level 3 is severe. Three response options: Stay Out (free, hurts standing), Humanitarian Aid (costs from aid budget, improves standing), Military Action (costly, outcome depends on defence budget). Use the War Survey button to check public appetite before deciding — military approval scales with public support.
Elections & Manifesto Promises
Election every 20 quarters. Q18: Accountability Report. Q19: New manifesto. Q20: Election. Promise boldness is judged by target ambition and timeframe — bold short-deadline promises earn more approval but cost more if broken.
Bond Market & Global Cycle
Debt above 100% GDP triggers bond market rate pressure. Above 140% causes a crisis. The global economy cycles through Boom, Growth, Slowdown, and Recession phases independently of your policies.