intro Ideologies enable the player to specialize their nation for certain play styles.
There are seven ideologies with most countries starting with Non-Aligned.
The ideological tree has 3 branches, from socialism into communism, liberalism into democracy, and nationalism into fascism.
Changing Ideology[]
Changing ideology can only be done via using political power or conceding forced ideology change in peace treaties.
The latter can be reliably done by declaring a subjugation or liberation war on an AI nation with the ideology that you want to change into and forcing a peace deal. Forcing a treaty can be done by:
- Invading and occupying enough territory
- Waiting until the country is completely occupied.
- This is not absolutely reliable, however if you are not geographically close to the nation you declared war on, it is an option.
- Be sure to declare war before the nation is completely occupied, otherwise you will be unable to declare war on them.
Non-Aligned[]
Non-Aligned is an ideology with no drawbacks or advantages except being able to enact the Neutrality Act.
Utilizing Non-Aligned[]
- Most nations start as Non-Aligned, staying Non-Aligned early allows you to first invest your political power into leaders, policies and laws.
- Constantly using your justification slots on nations that you may invade in the future is advisable before enacting Neutrality Act.
Communism[]
The main advantages of communism are:
- Stability during war, which allows you to risk more troops in battle without much risk and continue long wars,
- More manpower,
- And more factory output.
However this comes at the cost of having to deal with:
- Corruption gain,
- A noticable tax cut,
- And reduced population growth.
As a result, communism is less suited for players that prefer to rely on steady tax income with less micromanagement of factories, resources, and corruption.
Utilizing Communism[]
With communism, you need to enact many policies and laws, and to recruit political leaders in order to compensate for your reduced tax income. How to do so can be found here.
(obligatory separate maximizing p.p. guide)
- Enact the policy Favoring the Political Elite.
- Getting a chief judge before getting this policy is recommended.
- Maximize government spending.
- Switching your press regulation to State Focus in Laws.
Economically[]
- With communism, you have less tax income to work with, however your factory output makes enacting policies that require factory goods much easier.
- If you industrialize quickly, you can sell your factory goods to yield massive income.