The full briefing
The first five files showed you the planet, the weather, the front, the bomb and the cities. These are the rest of the papers on your desk: the people you negotiate with, the money, the guns, the wars beyond the front, the country you run, the crises it throws at you, and the rivals who want your seat.
Foreign office
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Diplomacy that remembers
Every country has an opinion of you, and it can tell you why: the bloc you belong to, the trade that binds you, how you voted at the UN, the promise you broke two years ago. Memories fade, but slowly. Trust is earned only by keeping your word.
- The real blocs of 1 January 2025 and 26 international organisations
- Deals with real amounts, threats and deadlines; counter-offers and mediators
- A UN Security Council with the veto; votes in the EU, NATO, OPEC and the IMF
Treasury
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A full economy that grows with your people
Every tonne is accounted for. Ore is dug from real mines, smelted, shipped and sold. You never place a factory by hand: you govern. Set taxes, subsidies, tariffs and laws, and firms answer by hiring, investing and building.
- Production chains from raw resources to finished goods, with one world price per good
- Real sea lanes: close Hormuz and fuel costs more on every continent
- Budgets, debt, credit ratings and a central bank that can save you or bury you
Ministry of defence
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Real weapons, by name
Every nation fields the equipment it really owns today. A Leopard 2A4 is not a Leopard 2A7, and a T-72B3 is not an M1A2 SEPv3. The arsenal you build can decide a war before it starts.
- 4,500+ real types across 173 nations: tanks, artillery, aircraft, ships, missiles, air defence
- 64 weapon development trees with 1,477 steps: design, licence or build jointly
- Every lost tank is gone until your factories build another
Joint operations
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War in the air, at sea and in the shadows
- Squadrons fly from real airbases, fight for the sky region by region and strike power plants behind the front
- Carriers, destroyers and submarines from their real home ports; blockades that cut real sea trade
- Missile salvos and attack drones against air defence, where every interception costs money
- About twenty real armed groups, hunted by your intelligence agency, with civilians caught in between
Cabinet
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Running a country
- Around 60 real policies across nine ministries; reforms cost money, phase in over months, and divide workers, savers, the young and business
- Hospitals and schools that decide how long your people live and how fast your scientists work
- Police, courts and prisons; eleven faiths in every province
- Mobile, broadband and sea cables; tourism, stadiums, the Olympics and the World Cup
Situation Room
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Crises and technology
Around 70 kinds of crisis grow out of your own country: a bank run, fuel protests, whispers of a coup, a breakthrough in your labs. Each comes with a deadline, and with consequences that come back months later. Lose your people's trust and the army may take your seat.
- Earthquakes on real fault lines, cyclones, floods, volcanoes and heatwaves
- 625 technologies across 12 fields: know it, adopt it, master it
- Every technology tells you exactly what it gives and what it costs
Intelligence
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Rivals playing the same game
Every other nation is run by an AI with real alliances, real rivalries and a real doctrine. It plays by the same rules and the same economy as you, with no cheats. While you plan, it does too.
Straight from the game
