Economy & Finance

How corporations earn and lose customer loyalty through consistent pricing and delivery: the relative loyal-slice payoff, the gouging penalty, and the hidden 5-tier scale.

The Central Bank Chair position, prime rate mechanics, and how interest rates ripple through the entire economy.

Issuing corporate debt, coupon payments, credit ratings, market price dynamics, and default mechanics.

The admin corporate rescue: bond haircut, IMF equity dilution, income-capped facility payments, and operating restrictions.

Proposing and accepting whole-corporation acquisitions: reference valuation, shareholder buyout, and the merger review gate that can block or condition a deal.

Decade-tiered tech trees with Corporate and Sector lanes, exclusive Scale, Premium, or Resilience specializations, R&D Score + cash unlocks, and innovation breakthroughs.

How to found and run a corporation: sectors as owned plants, revenue, profit margins, splits and attacks, and political interactions.

The Forex system: the active world's currencies, how rates are computed each turn, and how to trade for profit.

The US Federal Reserve's 7-seat committee: presidential nominations confirmed by the Senate, meetings every 8 turns, 24-hour player votes, majority of the full board, 16 rate changes per 192-turn term.

How approval ratings are derived, what moves them each turn, and their role in snap election triggers.

How household income, employment, confidence, prices, and Engel's law create consumer demand, plus the household price index and real-income display.

The country-level IMF bailout after a sovereign default crisis: loan sizing, income-capture repayment, and the IMF board's override window.

Passive investment vehicles that track a market basket: NAV, subscribe/redeem, and the 75/25 dividend pass-through.

Bank-to-bank lending, the central bank margin line, and what happens to a failed bank's outstanding loan book.

Explicit sector labour costs, the CEO wage slider, minimum-wage floors, and macro links to median income, unemployment, and migration.

Borrowing against your credit score from the central bank: composite scoring, spread curve, funding sources, and garnishment.

A visual player guide to freight markets, the Logistics map, landed-price sourcing, domestic haul capacity, and where to build logistics sectors.

A plain-language guide to the market system tiers: price realization, cheapest-first clearing and pricing posture, the capital loop, the plants tier where sectors are their plants, and how it all flows into valuation.

Revenue sources, spending categories, surplus and deficit mechanics, and how legislation shapes national finances.

Running the state's own enterprises: primary and split-off corporations, public-service mandates, CEO operations, treasury backing and remittance, efficiency, state-ownership concentration, and privatization.

GDP, unemployment, inflation, and the dozens of state-level metrics that measure economic and social health.

The state-ownership lifecycle: when a government can take a corporation, compensation tiers, investor confidence, running state-owned enterprises, and privatization.

How corporations produce quality from four substitutable pillars: Tech, Inputs, Wages, and Operations: how quality propagates up the supply chain, and the visible average-quality number and chart.

Union-bargained occupational pensions: employer contributions, deficit top-ups, benefit payments, and how a scheme's funding health is measured.

How USSR, China, and Eastern-bloc planned economies differ from market rules: fixed FX, administered prices, soft budgets, shortage and overhang, and dual-track transitions.

How finance corporations charter banks, allocate branch capacity, set rates, take deposits, lend, survive runs, meet capital rules, and use proprietary trading.

The player's guide to the physical-capacity economy: founding, plant builds, sector numbers, unsold output, inventory, stranded-plant warnings, mothballing, bonds, and dominance costs. With screenshots.

How idle cash earns interest at half the inflation-adjusted real rate, accruing every turn and crediting quarterly.

Government-issued bonds that finance national deficits: automatic issuance, coupon rates, and budget integration.

The sovereign default crisis pipeline: failed auctions, demand penalty curve, resolution paths, default scar, and recovery floor.

How corporate shares are valued, how to buy and sell on country exchanges, and how dividends work.

Formalizing voting control over another player's corporation: capital injection, dividend floors, CEO appointment, spin-offs, and group tax relief.

Private supplier-to-buyer commodity contracts: contracted demand filled before the open market, the ±35% price band, mutual consent, exclusivity, and the brand-loyalty interaction.

Sector unionization, standing labour premiums, strikes, union law, player-run unions, and union-busting: phased behind labour tiers.