POLICIES

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

Some of them you can impose on yourself, and some of them are used as interactions with other country balls

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== POLICY LIST

Surrender

Give up the game. Ends the game. Centrists are too moderate to give up

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Populism

Massively increase the impact of your answers for 8 turns

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- Authoritarian Policies

Nuke

Devastates a country and one of its neighbours

Through +

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Scorched Ideology

Bomb the ideology out of a country, reverting it to centrism

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Censoring

Reshuffle the populace & bleep out ideas. Newspapers become useless

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Surveillance

Limit the expression of your people and force deradicalization

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Death Flights

Throw all economically Left-Wing ideologies out of a helicopter

Through +

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Redirective Institutional Facility (Not Gulag)

"Educate" all economically Right-Wing ideologies

Through +

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- Libertarian Policies

McNuke

Recreationally obliterates a country and one of its neighbours, at a slight discount

Through +

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The Purge

General population sweep that radicalizes

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Great Pacific Garbage Match

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

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Freedom of Disassociation

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

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Supply & Depend

Import a new citizen into your populace

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Overton Shift

Shift the overton window and completely reshuffe your populace

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- Economic Policies

The Marketplace Of Ideas

International trade incentivizes a country to gradually become your ideology. 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 increases a country's opinion about 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

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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 for 8 War Turns

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Saintless Siege

Violent skirmish without some prophet guy telling you to do so. 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 (Supply & Depend), (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 (The Marketplace Of Ideas)

• 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)