Wiki & cheats

1. Open Budget → Revenue & taxes. Select a tax to edit it. Income-tax brackets and social contributions have their own detailed editors; VAT can use different categories for individual products.
2. In the social-contributions editor, set Employee contributions and Employer contributions separately. You can Cap the assessment base for each and use Low-wage relief to reduce employer contributions. Test a salary compares employer cost with Net before income tax.
3. Adjust spending in Budget → Spending. These edits join the same budget proposal. Compare current and projected revenue, spending and balance before committing.
4. Click Apply in the Budget project bar. Discard abandons the pending changes and reloads the current budget.

1. Open Budget → Revenue & taxes → Income tax, then select Edit tax brackets. In Tax bands, choose Month or Year for the amounts displayed. Edit each Upper threshold and Marginal rate; use Add a bracket if needed.
2. Under Other rules, set the Personal allowance deducted from labour income. Choose whether thresholds follow Median wage or Prices, or keep Frozen thresholds.
3. Set Capital income to Ordinary schedule, Separate rate or Exempt. Ordinary schedule adds capital income to the tax bands; the personal allowance applies to labour income.
4. Open Test a household. Enter labour income after social deductions, before the personal allowance, plus any capital income. Compare the tax, the amount left and the calculation by band. This test changes neither policy nor a real household.
5. Review the effects on social groups and the whole budget. Close the editor with Done, then select Apply in Budget to adopt the proposal.

1. Open Budget → Summary. Under Borrow money, check whether markets are open, the maximum amount and the quoted rate.
2. Set Amount to borrow. Review Treasury after, Debt after and Additional annual interest before selecting the Borrow button with your chosen amount.
3. Read the result beneath the controls and check your treasury and public debt. Borrowing is a separate action from applying a tax or spending proposal.
4. To repay, review the repayment preview and select Repay debt. The game calculates the amount available while preserving a treasury buffer; check the result before making another financial decision.

1. Open Budget → Summary → Emergency measures. Check why a measure is available or blocked. Ordinary borrowing and an IMF programme have separate conditions.
2. For monetary financing, select Create money and choose an amount. Compare the amount printed with what the Treasury actually receives, the resulting debt and the change in monetary credibility.
3. If you decide to proceed, select the Print button showing the amount. Follow the receipt and your finances afterwards: creating money raises prices and adds debt held by the central bank.
4. To reverse part of that financing later, use Repay the central bank in the same Budget window. Review the cash used, debt repaid and money withdrawn from circulation. The amount is limited by Treasury funds and the debt held by the central bank.
5. For a default, select Suspend debt repayments. Review the debt written off and left outstanding, creditor and bank losses, market exclusion and how long your Treasury buffer can cover the budget.
6. Choose Suspend payments, then Confirm the suspension only if that is your decision. The Treasury keeps its cash, but the default closes market borrowing and can damage domestic banks, stability and public approval.

1. Open Business & Investment → Productive investment and choose Prepare an investment. Target a company, a specific good or a sector. For a sector, you can also identify goods to favour.
2. Choose Produce more at home, Sell more abroad, Create jobs or Reduce a critical dependence. Set the maximum budget and the programme’s duration.
3. Read the assessment and the first proposed project. Check available workers, supplies, electricity and export transport where shown. Authorise the programme when the proposal suits you.
4. Follow committed spending and construction in the programme’s file. It selects further projects within your budget and duration. Stop new commitments ends future allocations; construction already committed continues.

1. Open Money & Finance → Sovereign wealth fund. Compare Fund value with Domestic currency cash.
2. Under Withdraw to the Treasury, choose the share of the available amount and review both balances before transferring. This withdraws domestic cash; it does not sell investments or convert foreign currency.
3. To sell investments shown in Stock market, first set Automatic management to Manual. Use Sell my units, or select a company and use Sell these shares.
4. Follow the pending sale. Cancel the sale stops its unfilled part. Return to the fund when domestic cash becomes available, then withdraw it.
5. To finance an eligible domestic listed company, select it in Stock market and use Inject capital. Review Cash requirement, Fund ownership after injection and Remaining funding gap. The company receives the cash and the fund receives new shares; Buy shares instead pays existing shareholders.

1. Open Money & Finance → Banks and capital and select the bank.
2. Compare its Capital ratio and Liquidity with the required minimums.
3. For a capital shortfall, choose Recapitalize only to preserve ownership or Recapitalize and nationalize to take the bank into state ownership. Review the proposed intervention and confirm it.
4. For a liquidity shortfall at a solvent bank, use Lend through the central bank. Review the result and financing receipt afterwards.

1. Open Money & Finance → Currency & central bank.
2. Expand Change the exchange rate regime and choose Create our own currency, when eligible.
3. Read What becomes yours and Debt already issued (keeps its currency). Check the projected share of foreign-currency debt.
4. Choose a suggested currency name or enter your own, then select Create with the chosen name. The new currency starts at parity with the old one and then floats.

1. Open Business & Investment → Sectors (firms). Select a sector and choose Change sector ownership. This decision covers the sector rather than an individual company.
2. Choose Nationalize, Privatize or Turn into a cooperative. Cooperative transfers concern eligible unlisted private stakes; the State pays the sellers at market price.
3. For nationalisation, compare Buyout at market price, Negotiated buyout and Seizure where permitted. Set the share to transfer and review the price, ownership after the change and consequences.
4. Commit using the action shown for your choice: Open the procedure, Sell the State’s shares or Hand over to the workforce. Seizure uses Seize without full agreement, followed by Confirm the seizure.
5. Return to the sector to check the new ownership split. Selling public stakes brings cash in but gives up the dividends from those shares.

1. Open Legislation, search for the measure and open its card. Select a proposed value or legal option: for example, the working week, retirement age or minimum wage.
2. Read the balance of support and the required majority. Select Table the bill to submit it. The preview alone does not change the law.
3. Follow the debate and vote in the law card. You can withdraw a bill you sponsored while it is in debate. If executive assent is required, the decision belongs to the relevant officeholder; you can make it only when you control that office.

1. Open Politics → Assembly. Under Upcoming elections, check the date for each chamber and each elected executive office. These contests have separate calendars: a legislative election can fall during a president’s term.
2. Open Politics → Institutions. Check how each chamber is selected, its voting system and whether it renews all its seats or only part of them. With a partial renewal, only half or a third of the chamber is renewed; the rest of its composition is retained.
3. Prepare the relevant campaign in My party. If several elections are underway, select the contest you want to campaign in. Parliamentary seats and an elected executive office are separate contests.
4. After the result, return to Assembly and Government. Check the seats, governing coalition and holders of each executive office. Where Parliament determines the government, the game resolves coalition formation and any required investiture. The largest party is not guaranteed to govern alone.
5. Before tabling a law, check its voting forecast and the majority required in each chamber. Set your party’s voting line or ask another party’s leader for support. Coalition membership does not guarantee every vote.
6. Follow the bill’s procedure after the vote. Depending on the constitution, a second chamber, executive assent, a veto or judicial review can affect whether it takes effect.

Follow a bill through Parliament ↗

1. Open Politics → Institutions to inspect the current chambers, selection rules, terms and executive powers.
2. Open Legislation and select the relevant constitutional measure. Choices include adding or removing an upper chamber, changing chamber renewal, Parliament’s powers, executive vetoes and judicial review.
3. Select the chamber where the measure is chamber-specific, then the proposed change. Read its support forecast and the constitutional procedure before submitting.
4. Follow the reform’s status through its votes and any further requirements. Check when it applies: some electoral changes are deferred until the election.

1. Open Politics → My party. Use Raise funds to replenish your party’s treasury. Set a recruitment budget and choose Recruit to bring in activists.
2. When an election campaign opens, select the election if several are underway. Adjust Budget and Activists committed, then review the expected advantage and influence cost.
3. Choose Launch the operation. The committed money, activists and influence are spent. Follow the campaign and check your remaining resources before planning another operation.
4. In the platform editor, choose up to three commitments on laws, taxes, spending or electricity capacity. Set each target and choose Pledge. Review the conditions and likely reception, then select Confirm platform to announce it.
5. During the mandate, return to your party’s promises and report to follow delivery. A promise does not change a law, apply a budget or build a power plant: carry out those decisions through their respective screens.

1. Open My party and find the parliamentary actions. Check the voting forecast and whether your constitution requires an alternative governing majority.
2. Choose Put the government at stake and confirm the motion. This spends party influence. If your party is a coalition partner, tabling it also means leaving the government coalition.
3. Follow the motion to its vote. Removing the government does not automatically put your party in power; the constitutional procedure determines what follows.

1. Open Demographics. Compare arrivals, departures and their age and qualification profiles. Check the social groups leaving and the main destinations when departures are recorded.
2. Open Legislation → Regular immigration cap. Choose the proposed annual capacity, then review and confirm the government action shown on the card. Follow actual admissions alongside capacity.
3. Open Right of asylum separately. Choose a set of rules for access, appeal and detention, and follow the legislative procedure. Review pending, granted and rejected claims on its card.

1. Open Society and select a social group. Compare its share of the population, income trend and satisfaction with the other groups.
2. Expand the group to see income, income tax, disposable income, wealth and militancy. Use these together: a change in income is not the same as a change in living costs.
3. For a tax or spending change, prepare and review the package in Budget. After implementation, return to Society to follow the groups’ finances and reactions. Active demands and strikes can be inspected in Labour relations → Disputes.

1. Open Labour relations → Disputes. Select a demand, inspect the workers involved and choose Negotiate to meet its representatives in Cablegram.
2. Choose an available measure, then Offer a compromise or Meet the demand. Compare the current rule, the demand and your proposal. Read the additional annual cost when shown and each union’s response.
3. Select Present proposal when an acceptable offer is ready. For a budget measure, review the shared budget proposal and apply it. For a law, use Open legislation and carry the change through its procedure.
4. Return to the dispute to follow implementation and disruption. A recorded agreement can still be awaiting implementation; other demands may remain unresolved.

1. Open Housing → Policies. Under Choose the rent regime, select Free rents, Indexed rents or Capped rents. Read the coverage preview, then choose Apply the rent regime.
2. Under Regulate mortgage-rate resets, choose Contractual resets or Capped resets, then apply the selection. Capped resets limit each eligible periodic increase to two percentage points.
3. Under Launch a social-housing programme, choose the number of homes. Review the total cost, annual commitment, delivery estimate and provinces receiving homes. Select Launch the programme.
4. Follow the programme list. Use Market and Households to inspect housing pressures and the costs different households face.

1. Open Overview → Movements and select the movement. Read its demand, participants and current level of violence.
2. In Intervention doctrine, compare Facilitate and protect, Contain, Disperse, Armed crackdown and Deploy armed forces. Review the control, escalation and casualty estimates.
3. Choose Apply for the response you want. An armed crackdown or military deployment first opens the order’s commitments; choose Confirm the order to issue it.
4. Follow the movement’s violence, casualties and political pressure. Review the underlying demand as well as the security response.

1. Open Defense → Alliances → New treaty. Choose a defensive pact, guarantee, non-aggression pact or military-access agreement.
2. Select the countries and set the duration and withdrawal notice. A defensive pact can include military access, intelligence sharing and offensive assistance; available clauses depend on the treaty type.
3. Review each partner’s response and the reasons shown, then choose Send the proposal. Check the treaty details afterwards to see its commitments. Defensive calls and voluntary requests to join a war have their own choices.

1. Open Defense → Alliances. Under Foreign military presence, choose Negotiate an agreement.
2. Select the host country. Set Annual rent, Duration, Max capacity and Allowed domains, then review the special clauses and the host’s response.
3. Select Send the offer. If accepted, the agreement appears in the list; it does not build a base.
4. Open Defense → Bases → Open the base room to build within the agreement’s permissions and capacity.
5. To leave, use Terminate in Alliances. As host, use Evict. Both start the notice period shown by the agreement.

1. For a defensive call, open Defense → Alliances and inspect the request. Read the attacked country, the treaty invoked, the consequences of each response and the deadline.
2. Choose Enter the war to commit your forces, or Military support to provide the package shown without becoming a combatant. Access only and Refuse the call are separate responses. Selecting a response applies it.
3. If you lead a side in an ongoing war, open its theatre and choose Call allies. Select an available ally to open Cablegram, then send Ask to join the war. This voluntary request is also available in a war you started.
4. Follow the reply in Cablegram. Acceptance brings the ally into your coalition with its own formations. The list distinguishes available allies, countries already fighting, pending requests and partners you cannot currently ask.
5. For NATO’s standing commitments, open its entry under World organizations in Defense → Alliances. Review the members and clauses; each member still chooses its response to a defensive call.

1. Open Diplomacy → Crises. Select an existing dossier, or open a crisis over an available dispute. A new crisis needs an eligible issue; the two countries cannot already be at war with each other.
2. Review the demand and the available actions. Depending on the situation, these include Draw a red line, Border mobilization, Naval deployment, Naval patrol, Maritime interdiction and Economic pressure.
3. Select an action and inspect its requirements, committed forces, cost and risks before issuing the order. For military measures, the forces and access to the theatre must exist. Follow the other side’s response and your active measures in the dossier.
4. To seek a negotiated exit, choose Propose a mutual withdrawal when available and follow the replies. If you initiated the crisis, Withdraw the demand ends your demand. As the target, Give in follows the concession required by the dossier.
5. As a neutral third country, check whether Offer to mediate is available. You need sufficient relations with both parties and must not have joined either camp. A proposal still requires their agreement.

1. Open Diplomacy → Sanctions. Choose the Target and Demand. Where available, link a ceasefire and withdrawal demand to the relevant war.
2. Select individual instruments or a proposed package. Options include arms and energy restrictions, technology controls, asset freezes and investment restrictions. Read the preview and any reason a measure is unavailable.
3. Select Impose the selected sanctions, then confirm using the same control. Read the result and open the regime’s dossier to follow its members, measures and consequences.
4. Use Add measures to strengthen an existing regime. Choose Strict, Standard or Lax for your country’s enforcement and read the estimate of prohibited trade still getting through.
5. To stop your participation, use Withdraw from this regime and confirm. Review the updated dossier afterwards; this is a decision about your country’s participation, not a command that directly orders every other country to lift its sanctions.

1. Open Diplomacy → Organizations → UN → Session. Select a resolution awaiting a vote. Crises brought before the Council normally already have a draft sponsored by another member.
2. Read the resolution’s type, target and voting forecast. Check the permanent members’ positions: a vote against from one of them is a veto.
3. If you govern a country with a Council seat, choose Yes, Abstain or No before the vote closes. Follow the outcome in the resolution history under Council.

1. Open Diplomacy → Organizations → European Union → Membership. Check your status and accession criteria. Eligibility is limited to the countries recognised as eligible by the game.
2. For an eligible country, meet the requirements on stability, inflation, debt, solvency and peace. Select File an application when available, then confirm.
3. Follow your negotiation progress in the same tab. Keep the criteria satisfied: failing them stalls negotiations. Reaching the end of negotiations leads to a member-state vote, not automatic admission.
4. Check the vote outcome. Every member must approve accession. If you decide to stop while negotiations are underway, select Withdraw application and confirm.
5. Joining the EU does not automatically change your currency. If you issue your own currency, open Central Bank (ECB) → Adopt the euro. Review the separate convergence criteria, conversion rate and debt conversion, then confirm with Adopt the euro when eligible. Your policy rate then follows the ECB.

1. Open Diplomacy → Organizations → IMF → Program. Read the funding need, available lending capacity and any reason a programme is unavailable.
2. Under Stabilization program, review the total commitment, interest rate, first tranche and projected fiscal balance. The commitment is the whole loan offer, not cash received at once.
3. Select Request program and confirm. The first stage of the stabilisation plan applies immediately. The first tranche adds foreign-currency reserves and creates debt to repay.
4. Return to the programme to check Status, Tranches disbursed and Next review. Further payments depend on reviews of your budget and the next steps of the plan.
5. When preparing a budget change, check the IMF review warning before applying it. A change that loosens the budget too far beyond the signed plan can suspend the next tranche.

1. Open a partner’s trade dossier and start a negotiation. Choose Compose the offer, then Choose products.
2. Set each side’s import-duty reduction for each product. 50% halves the duty; it does not set a 50% tariff. Set how many years the reductions take to phase in.
3. Compare the effects for exporters, domestic importers and customs revenue. Submit the offer, review counteroffers and complete the agreement’s ratification and signing stages.
4. To leave an active agreement, open it in Diplomacy → Agreements and select Withdraw from the agreement. Confirm the notice and follow the effective withdrawal date. If your bloc controls the agreement, use Submit to vote and obtain collective approval first.

1. For the general import tariff, open Budget → Revenue & taxes → Customs duties. Check the WTO ceiling and affected partners before applying a rise. A customs union may control this rate instead of your government.
2. For targeted additional duties, open Diplomacy → Agreements → Measures and select Compose an act.
3. Choose the partners. For each clause, select a product group or Specific goods, then set Additional duty, Notice, in days and Term, in months. Use No expiry for an open-ended measure.
4. Review the affected trade and agreements. Select Apply measure, or Submit to vote when your trade bloc controls these measures. After approval, select Bring into force.
5. Follow the measure under Acts in force. Select Repeal the act to withdraw it; withdrawal also needs approval when acting through the bloc.
6. If you are the complainant in a trade dispute, wait for consultations to expire, then choose Prepare response. Review the retaliatory act, adjust the goods, rates and duration, and follow the approval process shown.

1. Open Subsoil → Deposits, select a resource and choose Open prospection map. Pick a site on the globe within your country’s territory or controlled offshore area.
2. Read the reserves, required technology, added capacity, cost and construction time. Check who pays and the Treasury contribution; company funding is not the same as state funding.
3. Choose Start construction when the quote is available. Follow the project’s payments and progress. It produces nothing until commissioned, and shortages of materials can delay completion.
4. Select an operating site. Use Stop to suspend it or Resume to restart an eligible stopped site. Review output and remaining reserves under Subsoil → Extraction sites.
5. Use Close site only if you want to remove installed capacity, then confirm. Remaining reserves stay underground; resuming extraction requires a new project.

1. Open Transport → Open the Transport Room and select Diagnose.
2. Read Undelivered hydrocarbon exports. Identify whether the limit is in your network, a transit route, a strategic passage or the customer’s network.
3. If liquefaction capacity is missing, use Build a liquefaction plant when offered, or select an ocean port you own.
4. Under Specialized terminals, find Liquefaction (LNG export) and use Build LNG terminal or its expansion control.
5. Follow Projects until completion, then check actual deliveries again.

1. Open Electricity and select Manage my grid. Select a power source and the number of units, then choose a site on your country’s territory.
2. Check the proposed capacity, price and construction duration. Select Build here to begin the project.
3. Select an existing plant to inspect it. Where available, expand its capacity, stop it, restart it or retire it. The retirement confirmation shows any decommissioning cost.

1. Open Electricity and compare domestic generation, imports and unmet demand.
2. Check Fuel reserves. For each fuel, compare stock, remaining running time and the last delivery. Target changes the desired reserve; it does not deliver fuel immediately.
3. Under Grid, use Understand the benefit before choosing Build storage. Storage helps use wind and solar output that the grid currently loses.
4. Open View electricity trade to compare actual purchases and sales with available capacity. Under Trade rules, adjust Allow purchases or Allow sales, then select Apply.
5. If connection capacity is the constraint, review Expand connections and confirm with Start construction. Check the quoted cost, duration and any technology or funding restriction.

1. Open After oil. Read the supply-shock assessment and the bottlenecks in your country’s transition. Climate separately tracks global emissions, CO₂ and temperatures, alongside your country’s contribution.
2. Under Cars and trucks, Building heat or Industrial heat, review the next target and its annual spending cap. Raise the target to… adopts the proposed next step. Follow equipment deliveries and actual adoption afterwards.
3. Expand an industrial line to compare its alternatives: hydrogen made with electricity, fertiliser without gas, steel without coal, synthetic fuels or recycled chemicals. Depending on its stage, choose Build a prototype, Build first unit or Order a new plant. Check the required technology, cost and construction time.
4. If hydrogen distribution is a bottleneck, review Build a hydrogen network. Choose No priority, Agriculture first, Military first or Essential needs first to allocate available capacity.

1. Open Climate to compare atmospheric CO₂, global emissions and warming with your country’s emissions and world share. Use Risks → Weather for current weather, active episodes and countries affected.
2. Open Housing → Buildings. Check heat and cold exposure and how much heating and cooling demand is actually being served.
3. Adjust Heating setpoint and Cooling setpoint. Choose Monitoring, Vulnerable groups or National mobilization, then select Apply setpoints.
4. For Thermal renovation, Cooling access, Heat pumps or Climate shelters, set the target, pace and annual spending ceiling. Select Fund the programs to apply these separately from the immediate settings.
5. As time advances, check delivered improvements and the programme’s bottleneck. A target alone does not build anything: funding, pace and supplies limit progress.

1. Open Defence → Arsenal → Equipment. Check your holdings, including equipment already committed to formations. Select Order, choose an equipment class and set the Quantity.
2. Review the offer’s origin, model, total cost and estimated production time. The model comes from the producer’s technology. You choose the class and quantity; the game selects the supplier.
3. Check Available for orders. The full contract amount must be available before you select Order; it is then reserved for that purchase. Funding an equipment order ↗
4. Open Orders to follow the status and delivered quantity. Equipment arrives in whole units as production advances, rather than all at once when you order.
5. After deliveries, check Order of battle and expand a unit type. The general staff distributes equipment and replacement personnel over time; stock in the arsenal does not mean every formation is fully reinforced. FORMING marks a unit being reconstituted.
6. Select Open production center for the wider view. National shows your domestic orders, Import your purchases abroad, and Export your industry’s orders for other countries.
7. To stop one of your purchases, use the order’s cancel control (×) in the production center. Unspent reserved funds return to your military treasury; equipment already delivered stays in your arsenal.

1. In Defence, find Defense treasury. If an Arsenal order is blocked by insufficient funds, its Defense treasury button takes you there.
2. Compare Total cash, Protected operating funds and Available for orders. The protected amount covers operations and cannot be used for equipment purchases.
3. Check Monthly allocation against Monthly upkeep. The defence budget feeds the treasury over time; a higher annual allocation is not an immediate cash transfer.
4. For an immediate top-up, set an amount under Exceptional transfer. Review both treasury balances after the transfer, then select Transfer. This is a one-off draw on the national treasury.
5. Return to Arsenal → Order and review the offer again. If the national treasury also needs funding, Debt market opens the budget’s borrowing controls.

1. Open Defence → Arsenal → Equipment and find Reserves and flows. Compare In storage with With units, then read consumption and deliveries over the last 30 days.
2. Under ammunition, adjust Depot target in days of combat reference coverage. This sets the quantity to keep in reserve; it does not immediately add ammunition.
3. Under Strike missiles, set Depot target in individual missiles. Despite the label, this target counts missiles in storage and with units. Outstanding orders also count towards the shortfall. The administration orders missing ammunition and missiles as funds allow.
4. Follow replenishment in Orders or the production center. Check Deliveries received and the depot stock to see what has arrived; domestic production includes exports too.

1. Open Defense → Command and find Deterrence. Nuclear powers can review their doctrine, alert level and guarantees. Non-nuclear countries can review their protection.
2. To change doctrine, select Reform the doctrine, compare the choices and confirm. The declaration can affect relations and cannot be changed again for a year.
3. Raise or lower the alert one step at a time. Moving beyond Vigilance requires seven days between increases. With a doctrine that supports launch on warning and Heightened alert or above, an incoming attack can give you a retaliation decision before impact.
4. Select Offer an umbrella or Seek an umbrella, choose the partner and review Projected credibility and the expected answer. Submit with Offer the umbrella or Request the umbrella, then follow the response and protection shown in Deterrence.

1. When the captured-arsenal decision appears after a country is completely conquered, review the recovered warheads, fissile material, delivery systems and estimated extra upkeep. The stock remains pending until you decide.
2. To keep it, choose Reinforce our arsenal or Acquire a nuclear arsenal, then Confirm integration. If only material is available, the choice is Keep the equipment.
3. Alternatively, choose Dismantle under supervision and Confirm dismantlement. For a transfer, choose Transfer to a partner, select one of the listed nuclear countries and use Confirm transfer.

1. With operational warheads available, open Defense → Command → Open the nuclear war room.
2. Select countries on the globe and allocate warheads. Choose Major cities or Capital first for each target.
3. Review projected damage, retaliation and political consequences. Select PREPARE THE LAUNCH, then FIRE: CONFIRM, and complete any additional confirmation shown.
4. After launch, leave the room and let time advance. Weapons are committed at launch; impacts and retaliation resolve afterwards.

1. If a state has collapsed, select its devastated territory on the map. Read the survivors and settlement progress shown in Devastated territory.
2. As a neighbouring government, choose Expand into this land. You need a land border and the authority to expand your territory.
3. Follow progress as the months pass. Other neighbours can compete for the same land; provinces and survivors transfer as settlement progresses.
4. Choose Stop expanding if you want to end your effort.

1. Open Defence → Alliances and find Military support. Select Offer support to help a country at war, or Request support when your country needs assistance.
2. Choose the Conflict and Partner. When offering support, the partner list identifies the side each country is fighting on.
3. Set Monthly funding and quantities under One-off equipment shipment. Funding repeats monthly; the equipment shipment does not. You can send either or both.
4. Select Offer support or Request support to submit. Check Requests and offers for its status. A proposal needs acceptance before becoming active.
5. Use Support sent or Support received to inspect deliveries and equipment awaiting transport. For outgoing commitments, use Modify, Suspend or End as needed.

1. While directing a war, open Peace negotiations from the command controls. Review the negotiating margin and the opponent’s response to your terms.
2. For annexation, select occupied provinces covered by your declared territorial war goals. Click a selected province again to leave it out. Use Clear all to remove the demands and propose a white peace.
3. Choose Sign the treaty when the terms are accepted. A rejected offer leaves the war going. After peace, review the war report for the settlement, duration and losses.

1. Open Political Status and inspect the territory and its relationship with the relevant authorities. Start a new proposal for an eligible subject.
2. Choose the proposed status or an available cession or integration. Set the receiving authority where required; a cession also includes a price.
3. Read the proposal assessment and select Submit proposal. Follow the case to inspect responses, required consents and support among parties, communities and social groups.
4. Respond to the negotiation or compose a counteroffer when available. Follow any required referendum and the case’s final outcome.

1. Open Risks → Disasters and select an event affecting your country. Inspect the affected provinces, casualties and remaining damage. View on globe takes you to its location.
2. Under Government response, choose Local response, National emergency or Exceptional mobilisation.
3. Set Operational priority to Balanced, Save lives or National continuity, then select Issue orders.
4. Follow reconstruction progress, recovery funds and material deliveries. To help another country, select its disaster, enter an amount under Help reconstruction, review the funding preview and select Make donation.
5. For prevention, open Risks → Prevention, select an applicable hazard and adjust its Annual budget. Select Apply to put the budget into effect. Check preparedness and weak points as capabilities improve.

1. Open Budget → Spending → Laws affecting spending → Unemployment insurance.
2. Set the Replacement rate and Maximum duration. Under Access to benefits, choose Strict, Normal or Flexible. These profiles combine contribution conditions and waiting periods.
3. Review the projected beneficiaries, cost and income retained. Submit the law through the procedure available to your government or party.
4. After adoption, follow coverage over time. New claims, returns to work and exhausted entitlements change the beneficiary population.

1. Open Budget → Spending → Laws affecting spending.
2. For pensions, choose Pension indexation, Old-age minimum or Old-age minimum indexation. For families, choose Child benefit, Family allowance age limit, Family allowance eligibility or Family allowance indexation.
3. Set the proposed rule. For payment amounts, check the monthly unit. The child-benefit and old-age-minimum previews show the people covered and annual cost.
4. Submit the proposal through the procedure available to your party or office, then follow its progress. Choosing a value does not enact the law.

1. Open Resources in Health, Education, Security & Justice or Administration. Find the staff group you want to change.
2. Select Set workforce target and enter the total number of posts under New target. Review Projected workforce in 12 months, payroll costs and the estimated recruitment time. Select Adopt workforce target.
3. To change salaries, adjust Target pay vs private sector. Under Price rises covered, choose 0%, 50% or 100% for future indexation.
4. Review the budget proposal and select Apply to adopt the pay changes. Return to Resources to compare actual staffing, vacancies, the target and current pay.

1. Open Health → Food. Read the food situation and, during a crisis, its main cause: imports not arriving, falling production, high prices or several pressures together.
2. Compare Calories per person per day, Eat their fill and Grain reserve. Under Where the food comes from, check how much depends on imports and which countries supply them.
3. Open Stockpiles and select grain in the reserve register. Under Policy, set Target cover and Monthly purchase cap. Choose Manual decision, Supply disruption or Disruption or price stress, then Apply doctrine.
4. To draw on existing stock, open Overview, choose Release 7 days, then Confirm the release. This queues a release for the next monthly settlement; it does not put food on the market immediately.
5. Check Movements for what was actually bought or released, then return to Food to follow the crisis. The hunger-death figure shows the change from the campaign’s starting level.

1. Open Health → Epidemiology. The verdict shows your national situation, from Usual circulation to Health crisis, with hospital pressure. In the Health observatory, pick a disease to follow its weekly curve. Reported cases are only part of the sick; estimated incidence corrects for your surveillance.
2. Under Public health measures, select Protective habits, Targeted closures or Lockdown. Read the change in contacts, the annual cost and the time to take effect, then select Decide this tier and select it again to confirm.
3. To ease restrictions, select a lower tier or No measures and confirm it. The 28-day review of strong measures is advice: it does not lift restrictions automatically or require you to wait before changing them. Check the effective date.
4. Under Surveillance and vaccination, select Enhanced surveillance, then again to confirm, to see more cases sooner. For an Enhanced vaccination campaign, choose the disease, Target age and Health workers mobilised. Compare the duration and staff diverted from other care, then select Launch the campaign and confirm.
5. Follow vaccination under Campaigns under way. To end a campaign early, select Stop, then Confirm stop. Doses already administered are kept.
6. Under Health borders, select Stricter checks or Entry suspended, then again to confirm, and set Rule scope to Arrivals or Arrivals and departures. Countries join the At-risk countries list from their published figures; use Exempt or Include to set exceptions.

1. New pathogens appear only when New pandemics is set to Possible, when you start a campaign or later in Settings for the current campaign.
2. A new pathogen is first reported as an unidentified syndrome. Once a country has reported enough cases, it identifies the agent: the pathogen gets a provisional name, then its official names a month later. Vaccine research can start only after identification.
3. In Health → Epidemiology, the Vaccine race card under Surveillance and vaccination lists each new pathogen and where its vaccine stands. Choose the share of national research to reserve, 0%, 25% or 50%; this reduces the capacity available to other programmes. Your research targets shows the identified pathogen currently being researched. The target follows the most serious outbreak in your country’s reported figures and can change.
4. Follow Progress of your research and Estimated time. Once a country finds the vaccine, other researchers progress twice as fast. Your country can vaccinate as soon as its own laboratories succeed; otherwise, the vaccine becomes available 180 days after the first discovery worldwide. Once available to your country, use an Enhanced vaccination campaign for that pathogen.

1. Open Sport and culture → Event calendar. Choose an event format, Venue location and Scale.
2. Read the assessment of cost, venues and available security forces. Use the sports and cultural facility controls under Venues if you need to commission facilities.
3. Select Organize an event when the proposal is eligible. For the Olympics, select an open hosting contest and Submit a bid, then prepare the location and scale. The host is chosen by a vote.
4. Follow the calendar through preparations and the event. You can reduce the scale or cancel your own event while it is still being prepared; services already paid for are not refunded. Afterwards, review attendance, spending and results.

1. Open Research and select a technology. Inspect its prerequisites, effects and available routes.
2. For a Sovereign program, select Review launch. For a foreign route, choose an available offer under Foreign agreements and Sign agreement, then select Launch a program under this agreement. Signing opens a faster research route; it does not complete the discovery.
3. Compare the new programme’s estimate with the changes to ongoing research, then select Launch program. Capacity is shared automatically between programmes that can progress; starting another can delay the others.
4. Open an active programme to follow its progress. To stop it, choose Stop the program, then Confirm the stop. Progress already made is kept, even before a discovery.
5. After discovery, reopen the technology’s details. For effects that spread through the economy, compare Current, At full deployment and National deployment. Discovery does not mean the whole country is already using it.
6. For an eligible mastered technology, check Next generation. Once it is unlocked, select Review launch, compare the effect on ongoing research, then choose Launch program. Later generations use a Sovereign program; read the deployment requirement if the next one is unavailable.

1. Open Intelligence → Operations and select a target country. Choose whether to observe, prepare or act.
2. Select a mission and read its briefing. Available actions include mapping a system, establishing access, stealing state secrets, disrupting a grid and sabotaging an identified plant or extraction site.
3. Review the target, cost, duration and risk before launching. Follow the active operation, then open its report for the result and any exposure of your network. Success and secrecy are separate: an operation can achieve its objective and still be detected.
4. For an exposed network, select its country in Operations and check Prepare → Extract the network. A successful extraction lowers exposure by giving up some access; it still has its own cost and risk.
5. In Intelligence → Networks, select a known foreign cell operating in your country. If Request a joint operation is available, review the prospective partner and authorise the request. Both services need funding and available capacity, and the partner can decline.
6. In Intelligence → Files, review an attribution case. Publish attribution becomes available with a probable sponsor; you do not need to wait for Established. Read the diplomatic consequences, then choose Confirm attribution.

1. Open Intelligence → Situation and select the active hostage crisis. Read the demand, surviving hostages, deadline and confidence in their location.
2. Compare Negotiate, Stall, Order an assault and Meet the demand. Review costs and the reasons any option is unavailable.
3. Select a response and choose Commit this mandate. A pending mandate cannot be replaced by another choice.
4. Let time advance and follow the crisis report. Review the outcome, remaining hostages and deadline before choosing another available response.

1. For a province, use debug_map to display country tags and province IDs on hover, or provat to inspect the province under the cursor. You can also type the province name and press Tab: the suggestion inserts its ID and shows the country that runs it. Enter annex_prov followed by that province ID.
2. To hand a province to another country, enter give_prov followed by the province ID and the country tag. Your own last province cannot be given away; a country that loses its last province is dissolved.
3. For a country, enter annex_country followed by its country tag. Tab offers matching arguments, and a name shared by several countries is refused with the candidates listed. This command takes its provinces and dissolves the target country.
4. For a region, enter regions to list the Regional questions of your country, or regions followed by another country tag. Enter secede followed by the listed ID; Tab offers the questions still open. The region becomes independent as if its referendum had passed.
5. For a character, use debug_ids to show the copy-ID control on character sheets. Enter kill_human followed by the copied ID. kill_leader targets your leader when no country is supplied.

1. In Space → Program, check your space capabilities and launch access. Use Build a center for a domestic launch project, or compare foreign launch offers and annual fees in Logistics. A request for foreign slots needs the provider’s agreement.
2. In Space → Outposts, establish a site in a free lunar region. Build and complete its habitat and life-support facilities.
3. Check power for vital demand and free habitat capacity. The supply forecast must cover at least three months, counting the arriving crew and the provisions they bring.
4. Use Train crew (+6) in Program and wait for training to finish. At the destination outpost, choose Send a crew to request the mission. Check the result, then follow its preparation, launch and flight in Logistics.
5. For a civilian settlement, check the separate Send settlers action and its conditions. Settlers become permanent residents; they do not draw from your pool of trained astronauts. Keep enough housing, power and supplies for the arriving population.

1. Open Space → Outposts and select the site. Review its supply endurance, Resupply and any Resupply blocked reason. Food, breathable gases and spare parts are replenished automatically when needed.
2. Check incoming shipments in Logistics. Preparation, waiting for launch and flight are separate stages. An order is not a delivery.
3. Resolve the reported obstacle: financing, launch access, payload capacity or storage. Cargo already on its way also reserves storage space. For foreign launch access, compare the offers and annual fees in Logistics, request slots and follow the provider’s response.
4. Recheck the supply forecast after expanding the habitat or sending more people. Follow actual arrivals and remaining supplies, especially if a shipment is delayed.
5. For Arrival failures, read the reason, next attempt and deadline. Use Retry after fixing the obstacle, or Bring back to send the mission back to Earth.
6. For Stuck surface shipments, Bring back also needs an open return route. Abandon cargo permanently discards the shipment.

1. Open Space → Governance. Read the colony’s status and the conditions listed under autonomy and independence, including residents, stability, fulfilled commitments, treasury and local income.
2. Use Charter to choose the council’s powers, then Apply. When an autonomy request arrives, accept or refuse it. Accepting gives the colony elected leadership and legislative powers while it remains under your sovereignty.
3. When an independence request arrives, choose Hold the referendum or refuse it. Let time advance and follow the result in Governance. Authorising the vote does not guarantee a vote for independence.
4. After a successful vote, review the settlement’s operating capital, launch access and asset terms. Choose Conclude the settlement to approve the transfer, or refuse it. Your country must be able to fund the required operating capital.
5. After settlement, the new state controls its government and sites. Follow it in Space world; your former colony is no longer governed through your charter and tax controls.

1. In Space → Outposts, choose a site with helium-3 and build Helium-3 extraction once its required capabilities are available. Keep power, maintenance supplies, workers and storage available. Watch actual output and remaining reserves.
2. Use Return production. The mission takes available exportable cargo within its payload limit, prioritising helium-3. It needs transport and local propellant for the ascent. Follow it in Space → Logistics until it reaches Earth.
3. Complete Deuterium-tritium fusion, Helium-3 fusion and Industrial helium-3 cycle in Research. In After oil, review the cost, construction time and requirements, then select Build the experimental reactor.
4. Keep helium-3 available on Earth. Returning your own production is one route; if an eligible supplier has stock, the Buy button in After oil offers a quantity, price and delivery time. A purchase still has to arrive before the fuel can be used.
5. After construction, keep the experimental reactor supplied for 24 months of actual operation. Months halted by missing fuel or operating supplies do not count towards proving it.
6. Once the demonstration is complete, open Electricity → Manage my grid, select Helium-3 fusion and build a plant. Continue checking fuel stock and autonomy in After oil.

1. From the main menu, open Mod studio and choose New mod. Give it a name and an identifier. Other mods refer to yours by that identifier, so it stays fixed once saved.
2. Pick what to change. Leaders, parties and country flags come from the game’s own list and appear side by side with your version. Flags you import become extra choices in the flag editor.
3. Choose Save mod, then restart the game. Mods load at startup, never in the middle of a campaign.
4. To build on someone else’s mod, including one from the Steam Workshop, select it in Manage mods and choose Duplicate in the studio. You work on your own copy; the original stays untouched.

Prefer a text editor? A mod is a plain folder with a small manifest and its images, and Open mods folder shows where they live. The studio writes the same format, so both load the same way.