Strategy Guides

The wiki explains how each system works. The strategy guides are the long-form, worked walkthroughs that show you how to play them well. Every guide below lives at /guides. This page is the categorized index so you can find them from inside the wiki.

Economy & Corporations

• Running a Corporation: found, expand, and profit. Sector focus, margin modifiers, commodity markets, sprawl, shares, and bonds.
• Commodities: the commodity market end to end. Supply/demand pricing, margin effects, what every sector produces and consumes, and chain dependencies.
• Planned / Command Economies: running SOEs, Gosplan, and Gosbank. Plan fulfillment, efficiency as capacity utilisation, directed credit, and the marketization dial.
• Plants System: the current capacity economy, build queues, unsold output, mothballing, and sector operations.
• Private Banking: bank charters, deposits, lending, capital rules, runs, and proprietary trading.
• Logistics: freight markets, sourcing projections, congestion, and the Logistics map.

Finance & Markets

• Investing: profit from stocks, forex, and sovereign bonds. Share price mechanics, dividends, currency tiers, and how interest rates tie it together.
• Bonds: bonds from the ground up. Face value, coupons, maturity, the price/rate relationship, sovereign vs corporate, ratings, and defaults.
• Currency Exchange (Forex): how exchange rates move, trading tiers, volume pressure, and cross-currency strategies.
• Index Funds: NAV, subscription and redemption, baskets, and dividend pass-through.
• Sovereign Default: failed auctions, crisis resolution, default scars, and recovery.

Politics

• Running for Office: declare candidacy, survive the primary, and win the general. Political Influence, campaign upgrades, favorability, and what the vote formula rewards.
• Bills & Legislation: country-specific bill routes, special provisions, filibusters, and executive action.
• Government Formation: parliamentary confidence votes, coalition building, and vacancy deadlines.

Advanced & Automation

• API Automation: drive your character programmatically through the public API.
• Reference Formulas: current election, approval, organization, and progression formulas.
• Turn Order: the authoritative phase sequence for hourly processing.

Prefer system reference over walkthroughs? Start at Getting Started and browse the wiki by category.