MONEY WARSMODERN AGES
MONEY WARSMODERN AGES
Every country has a system of government: parliamentary, presidential, one-party, monarchy, junta and more. It adds small modifiers to the economy, military and diplomacy, and sets your cabinet posts and election calendar. You can change it from the regime card in the Governance tab, by reform or by coup.
Legitimacy is the support of the people and of the groups that carry the regime. People judge the government against what they're used to: a sudden slump hits hard, while a lasting situation is slowly accepted. Regimes without elections wear out over the years; if legitimacy stays very low for long and the army is angry, a coup follows.
Interest groups vote on the new system. Their mood, their ideology and the privileges they stand to lose decide where they stand; their influence decides how much it counts. If the opposition outweighs the support, the reform won't start. Even if it does, a strong opposition raises the cost, heats up the streets during the transition and wears down your legitimacy. In a coup, if the army won't stand behind the new order, the attempt collapses. The change card shows you who is with you and who is against you.
In a democracy you send a policy to the vote; over about a month it passes through committee, debate and the final vote. The votes are counted again at every stage, and the card on the Government tab shows whether it is on course to pass — you can withdraw it at any time. A bill with very weak support dies in committee. A rejected law costs you nothing; if you have the power, a decree skips parliament, but people don't like it.
Yes. In a repeal vote the parties' positions flip: a party that likes the law votes against scrapping it. If the repeal fails, the law stays and the groups that wanted it gone hold a grudge. Under regimes without elections parliament doesn't vote, so you can repeal whenever you like.
Yes. Similar regimes lean toward each other and opposites stay cool; you'll see ideological affinity on a country's card, and your envoys work better with like-minded regimes. If you change your system, relations shift accordingly — the change card tells you in advance how many countries will warm or cool. Break away from democracy and the EU, NATO and the G7 may vote sanctions on you.