Questions and answers

Second secretary of the Communist Party

Why are there two currencies?

There are two foreign areas around you. One side is the area under the control of the USSR (Soviet) and second area is under the US control, at least financial in this case. So, as there are two foreign countries where you can buy and sell resources, you need to work with both currencies.

If you move the camera to an edge of the map you will see the border (Soviet or West) and the custom houses. Depending on where you purchase resources, you will spend Rubles (Soviet area) or Dollars (West area)

Why do I need money within a socialist society?

In a couple of words, you don't. In another, trade.

Rubles and dollars are only the foreign exchange for your republic. Your internal economy works without any currencies/money, only with resources.

Those two currencies are only present due to trade with foreign countries (Soviet or West). You can simply exchange resources - obtain resources which you need now, like at the start of the game. But you choose! You can focus solely on trade and getting money from natural resources that you will mine and sell to foreign countries... or build up a totally self-sufficient republic.

How to get Rubles or Dollars?

You can load resources into a road vehicle or train and deliver it to a Customs House. If you bring resources to the Soviet border you will get rubles. If you will bring resources to the West border you will get dollars.

If you click on the Custom House building, you can see the price of the resources - how much money you can earn if you deliver goods there.

Why do the prices fluctuate?

Global market prices shift every couple of days. The prices change because of:

• Random market fluctuation
• Inflation
• If you purchase resources, you create a demand on the market and prices goes up
• If you sell/export resources, you are supplying more goods to the market and prices go down
• Some global events can drastically increase or decrease prices of resources for limited time
• As new technology is introduced it can affect the amount of manpower or resources to manufacture goods, and prices on the global market can change

Note: If there is a change in the price of Coal, it also changes prices on all products which are manufactured from Coal. Also the prices of all buildings and vehicles.

The prices of everything are defined by resources, so all prices in the game are dynamic.

How to get citizens to move into residential buildings?

After you construct a residential building, you have two options to get citizens to move in:

Option 1: Invite immigrants for money You can invest some of your Rubles or Dollars and invite immigrants to your building. Click on the building where you would like new citizens. Then click on Worker buyrub "Invite from Soviet countries" (spends Ruble) or Worker buyusd "Invite from third world" (spends Dollars). Immigrants from third world can be hungrier, with poor health or no education, but they are cheaper to invite.

Option 2: Move from another building You can relocate citizens from one residential building to another. Click on the source building that you want to remove citizens from. Click on Tool worker relocate "Relocate citizens". Then just click on the building you would like the citizens to move to.

Citizen demands (free-time activities)?

Each citizen decides every day what they would like to do (activity).

According to the following levels, one of the activities is chosen. The higher the level, the higher chance that this activity will be chosen.

• Local Sport - Satisfied by visiting a sports playground.
• Spirituality - Satisfied by visiting a church
• Drinking - Satisfied by visiting a pub.
• Culture - Satisfied by visiting a theatre, cinema, etc

If a demand is not fulfilled, the happiness level Status happiness of the citizen is decreased and the citizen's preference for the unfulfilled demand is also reduced. If a demand is fulfilled a citizen's happiness level is increased and they will seek out that demand more often.

Minister of Education

How does education work?

If a citizen finishes their education at a School they can move on to study at university.

1) If the citizen is 21+ years old, you need to use relocate tool and relocate them to a University halls of residence.

University halls of residence is a special residential building. The difference is those citizens are not going to work, and instead will be going to study at university.

If the citizen ends their studies, they will try to rent a free flat near the University halls of residence. If the citizen cannot find a nearby flat, you can relocate them from University halls of residence manually.

2) If the citizen has finished School during their childhood (under 21 years old), they spend their work period trying to get into university. They don't need to be placed into a University halls of residence.

Chief Architect and Planner

How do I build a building?

Select any of the category in the bottom menu, like Residential areas

Select the building you wish to build, for example "Flats - brick"

If you mouse over the building you can see additional info. Click on the building you would like to build.

Move cursor (with building) over the terrain/map.

• If building is green - you can start construction by clicking left mouse button
• If building is yellow - Uneven terrain: you can hold left mouse button to flatten the terrain until building is green
• If building is red - something is blocking construction (extreme terrain or previous construction).

Small dots with changing colors (red, yellow, green) highlight the problem!

You can rotate the building before placing by scrolling the mouse wheel.

You can select the currency you want to use on the construction in the bottom right corner.

In the right bottom corner you can also

• Turn on the wireframe to see the terrain more clearly.
• Turn on the topographic view to see the terrain surface better
• Toggle snapping to near roads to create highways

If you check the crane checkbox:

• "Build from resources"

You will build the building without money, but with resources and construction offices. Note: this is not recommended for newcomers, see additional topics on this.

How to get citizens to move into residential buildings?

After you construct a residential building, you have two options to get citizens to move in:

Option 1) Invite immigrants for money You can invest some of your Rubles or Dollars and invite immigrants to your building. Click on the building where you would like new citizens. Then click on "Invite from Soviet countries" (spends Ruble) or "Invite from third world" (spends Dollars). Immigrants from third world can be hungrier, with poor health or no education, but they are cheaper to invite.

Option 2) Move from another building You can relocate citizens from one residential building to another. Click on the source building that you want to remove citizens from. Click on "Relocate citizens". Then just click on the building you would like the citizens to move to.

How do I get citizens to go to work?

If you have citizens living in your residential buildings, you can send them to work. You have two options:

Option 1) A Factory/Workplace close to their home. If there is a Factory or any other workplace where the workers are needed close to their residential building, workers will go to it on foot. You can check if any building is reachable for workers/citizens on foot by mousing over the building's window.

Option 2) If no workplace can be reached by foot, you can transport citizens to their workplace by Bus or Train. Build the "Train platform" or the "Bus platform" residential buildings. You will see workers waiting on those platforms. Define this platform as the first stop in the vehicle schedule, then define the destination (Factory, workplace) as a second station. Eventually you can build a platform near your factories or workplaces. Workers will step off a bus or train and walk to their workplace.

Minister of Propaganda

Are my citizens loyal to the cause?

Government loyalty - how much loyalty your citizens have to your government.

If a citizens loyalty is too low, they react more negatively when they miss something. If it's below 30 percent, it may affect also citizens happiness - it will decrease according to how low loyalty is.

If a citizens loyalty is high, then they do not react as negatively when they miss something. Also their productivity will be higher.

In various buildings the loyalty of employees in the buildings affects the inmates, listeners or students - such as students in schools or universities, or orphanage, radio or TV station, or prison. In those buildings you can tweak which citizens are allowed to work there, in order to prevent negative effect on other citizens.

However, you don't know the government loyalty of citizens unless the secret police agents come to install spy equipment to their homes. If citizen's loyalty is unknown, they are considered as their loyalty is full and they will allowed to work in those buildings, even if their loyalty is less than value you set.

If you wanted to increase the government loyalty of your citizens, you should first start with building some monuments. However those can increase the loyalty only partially, up to 50 percent.

To increase loyalty further, you need to run propaganda from the radio or TV station. You can also restrict low loyalty employees going to teach in school and universities. You can give personal cars to citizens - this also increase the loyalty. But don't forget to keep working the secret police, otherwise those restrictions will not be effective!

Citizens' daily life?

Citizens divide their day into two time-periods:

1) Working

During work-time the citizens try to get to a workplace (children try to get to a school). First they check to see if there are any free jobs near their home. If not, they then go to a Bus or Train platform where they wait for any available transport to commute to a location where they can work.

2) Free time

After the citizens finish work, they try to fulfill their needs and demands, such as getting to a shop for some groceries, or to do an activity according to their preferences.

Citizen-watching...

Adult citizens have three education levels. You can tell the difference while they work

No education - these citizens can only go to school, they are not yet qualified for any of the jobs available in your society.

Basic education - these citizens can do most available jobs, except those that require a university education.

University education - these citizens can work on any job, but primarily they try to engage in those jobs requiring a university education (like Teacher, Doctor, Researchers etc)

You can recognize kids (future workers) by these symbols:

0 - 6 years old

7-12 years old

12 - 16 years old

17- 21 years old

Children or adult citizens without an education will spend their work period trying to get to a school to study for their Basic Education.

What do my citizens believe?

If you selected a map where there are churches present, citizens can satisfy their spirituality demand - by visiting church.

However you are socialist government, and are against any religion, so you cannot build any more churches.

So it is up to you; you can leave the churches open and satisfy the citizens' religious demands. But, if a citizen demands a church and they do not have many other activities to occupy them, they will constantly get higher and higher spirituality demands. Then even moving them to a location where there is no church will not stop them from demanding a church.

It is recommended to close churches (with "decrease productivity" ) before citizens' spirituality demand level is too high, and instead let citizens join in activities you can more easily satisfy.

Minister of Health

Where do citizens come from?

Every adult citizen can have a baby.

If a citizen is too hungry or too sick they are less likely to be able to have a baby.

Birth Rates depend on how good life is for citizens.

Are my citizens healthy?

Every citizen has a health level. Status health

This level is affected by many factors. E.G. If a citizen drinks alcohol their health is decreased. If a citizen is hungry too long their health is also decreased.

Every citizen has a lifespan - their expected length of life. Lifespan is affected by many factors like pollution, happiness and health.

Every citizen can potentially fall ill. Pollution of their living area can affect the chance, as well as global events, like an epidemic, rapidly affect the chances of falling sick.

• If health is less than 50%% citizen will demand a hospital visit
• If health is less than 30%% citizen will not be able to work due to sickness
• If health is less than 20%%, health will be constantly lost unless an ambulance can save them.

Citizens will die if:

• Their health level reaches 0%%
• They reach their life span age (expected length of life)

Are my citizens happy?

Every citizen has a happiness level. Status happiness

Happiness is affected by many factors, but basically, if a citizen gets what they want, their happiness level goes up, if not, happiness goes down.

If citizens drink alcohol their happiness goes up faster than with other activities, however drinking alcohol can negatively affect health too.

If the happiness level reaches 0%% the citizens will flee your republic. This only reflects on your abilities as a leader, nothing to do with body odor...

(Walls at the borders, and strikes are planned features :-) coming soon)