POLICIES

Policies are functionally a mix of perks and interactions you can use in the game

Surrender

Give up the game. Surrendering is still choosing a side - Not for fence sitters!

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Populism

Increases the impact of your answers for 8 turns. Could be used as a last effort to influence the public

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- Authoritarian Policies

Nuke

Absolutely devastates an entire country + 1 random neighbour

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Scorched Ideology

Military strategy that wipes a country of its ideology, reverting it back to centrism

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Censoring

Reshuffle the populus & bleep out ideas. Newspapers become kinda useless

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Surveillance

Limit the expression of your people and force deradicalization

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Death Flights

Rid your populus of Left-Wing political orientations by forceful relocation

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Redirective Institutional Facility (Not Gulag)

Rid your populus of Right-Wing political orientations by forceful relocation

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- Libertarian Policies

McNuke

Recreationally obliterates an entire country + 1 random neighbour, comes also at a discount

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The Purge

General population sweep that radicalizes your populus

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Great Pacific Garbage Match

Recklessly start throwing random shit towards a country for 4 War Turns

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Freedom of Disassociation

Your populus can't start a revolt for 8 turns. Why revolt if you got freedom?

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Liberalisation

Import a new citizen into your populus

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Overton Shift

Shift the overton window and completely reshuffe your populus

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- Economic Policies

Economic Subversion

Sell your ideas through international market influence! Active for 10 turns

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- Nationalistic Policies

Blitzkrieg

Offensive warfare designed to strike swiftly within 4 War Turns

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Imperial March

Global frenzy! Go on a giant rampage for 10 War Turns

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Kamikaze

Automatically conquer a country by sacrifice

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Dutiful Warmonger

Encourage another country to declare a war on a neighbour

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Roman Conquest

Glorious conquest by military force for 10 War Turns

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- Diplomatic Policies

Geo-Alliance

Strong diplomatic ties with a country for 10 turns. Stunlocks the ability to declare wars

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Diplomatic Agreement

Temporarily pleases a selected country which increases their positivity towards you

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Territorial Swap

Move your country without wars! Swaps territories with a selected country

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Cease for Peace

Halts an ongoing war once

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- Traditionalistic Policies

Tribalwar

You gotta stick to your roots after engaging with sticks! (8 War Turns)

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Holy Crusade

Create a divine schism by sword! Violent skirmish for 8 War Turns

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Saintless Siege

Violent skirmish with swords. Onwards onto the battlefield! (6 War Turns)

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- Progressive Policies

Robot Takeover

0s and 1s, execute me. TECHNOLOGICAL WAR! for 6 War Turns

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Big Brain Chip

See public opinion estimates before answering for 5 turns

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POLICY EFFECTS

PERKS ON POPULUS

• Get rid of right wing population (Gulag)

• Get rid of left wing population (Death Flights)

• Population Count +1 / -1 (Liberalisation), (Kamikaze)

• Deradicalize / Radicalize entire population (Surveillance), (The Purge)

• Completely reshuffle / reset ideologies (Overton Shift), (Censoring)

PERKS ON OTHER COUNTRYBALLS

• Tinker with other countries’ ideologies / influence / trade (Economic Subversion)

• Resetting the ideology of an attacked country (Scorched Ideology)

• Starting wars (Imperial March), (Blitzkrieg), (Tribalwar), (Saintless Siege), (Kamikaze), (Robot Takeover), (Roman Conquest), (Great Pacific Garbage Match)

• Halting wars (Cease for Peace)

• Nukes (Nuke), (McNuke)

• Swapping positions, movement without war (Territorial Swap)

• Alliances lock the ability to declare war on the player for X turns (Geo-Alliance)

• 'Manually' pleases a selected country which temporarily increases their positivity towards you (Diplomatic Agreement)

• Encourage other balls into starting wars against neighbouring countries. (Dutiful Warmonger)

PERKS ON SELF

• Temporarily disable revolts (Freedom of Disassociation)
• See public opinion outcome estimates before applying them, for X turns (Big Brain Chip)
• More answer weight/impact for X turns (Populism)