I'm not sure whether I'll try my hand at modding the game, or whether someone would like to take on this task, but I was thinking of some aspects of the game that bothered me and could use adjustment. This is all from an American perspective I’m afraid. Just wanted some feedback. The simulations can only do so much, and the game should still be a challenge,but it can be frustrating to me that I would like to try a reworld solution to see if it could work, but it simply does not exist. So I was thinking up these policies and scenarios around 3am last night, also because I was in the middle of an allergy attack some of that is written may be misspelled or some such. Please forgive that and tell me what you think.

1) Positive Religious boosts.
I feel like there should be semi-positive religious policy that boost things. I know that's vague, so let me explain my thoughts. Some of these I may not personally agree with legally, but they make sense.
-A religious tolerance bill. It would have a slider with the middle ground being tolerance for all religions and the extreme being government giving religious support.
- “Happy Holidays”: While some people find saying “holidays” to be offensive because it ignores their specific faith, ethnic minorities and other religions find it very comforting to know the state recognizes their distinct faiths. A slider ranging from only recognizing specific faith holidays to acknowledging multiple holidays to acknowledging none. Unpopular with conservatives, somewhat popular with liberals and religious folk, Increasing it too much towards secularism decreases religion but boosts liberalism.
-World faith Classes in Schools: Encouraging a study of basic knowledge of the world’s faiths like learning about different languages allows one to better understand another’s perspective even if they vehemently disagree. Decreases ethnic tension, decreases patriotism, makes conservatives slightly unhappy, makes liberals happy to a point, increase religious popularity.


2)More environmental controls and other variable.
I personally find the game more irritating because inevitably you run into the same annoying scenarios again and again.
-Water purification to decrease water shortage crisis
-Water rationing system: Angers farmers who must use water sparingly, popular with environmentalists because it improves the environment. It’d be a scale dependent on time like curfew. Cost can be moderate because the higher the rationing the more water the state must provide its people
-Foreign and exploitation: encouraging companies to outsource waste, offal, and unwanted environmentally damaging materials. Would anger liberals and ethnic minorities, bolsters middle class + wealthy favor slightly. Angers environmentalists though it lowers pollution, and makes patriots slightly happy to see their homeland cleaner.
-Food Replicators: These home appliances may cost a ton, but they allow the poor and environementally conscious to recycle food. This would drive down the cost of food due to producers trying to stay competitive. This would increase unemployment’s, anger capitalists, boost environmentalists, the poor, parents(whose children don’t eat their dinners or full plates) and the retired (who live on limited funds sometimes and may find it easy for single meals alone).
-Clean Industry subsidies to improve the environment without being seen as distorting the market. This is akin to the enterprise investment scheme, but focused on cleaner industries.
3) Bonuses to Capitalism those aren’t inherently anti-welfare or pro-greed
- Encouraging private sector investment in charities/ small business: works like the gated community scale ranging from discouragement to active encouragement. Boosts moderate approval with the middle class, less so with lower class, moderate with capitalists.
-A public broadcasting channel dedicated to economics from teaching basic economics to children to giving stock advice this channel boosts capitalist membership, irritates socialists, and make capitalists very happy. It’s popular with youth, parents, and the retired as well
-Position on Bribery: Publically ignore corporate bribery, allow it to occur in small governmental branches, allow it to run rampant at every level, openly quash it(lowers state employees).
-Fair Game Act: Allows the state to auction off or claim unclaimed property or property without a 100% tracable owner. That last fact opens the law up for potential abuses, but also allows the state to use it as they see fit. You can maintain the land for public use, sell it privately, or give it to whomever claims it

4) Housing policy
-Housing Fairness Act: Perhaps would interact with gated communities. Range from free practice to prosecuting slum lords to prosecuting unfair housing practice, encouraged mixed income housing to mandatory mixed income neighborhoods. Would boost public schools due to tax divisions. Unpopular with the wealthy, slightly unpopular with capitalists, very popular with ethnic minorities across class lines and the poor.
-Tourist Housing subsidies/loans: Small loans to small businesses like bed and breakfasts, motels, and hostels to encourage cheap tourism
-Floating Island funding: funding initiatives to build massive engineered floating islands that will be popular to the wealthy for their exclusivity and ability to have second homes, and with capitalists for new business opportunities. Environmentalists are happy due to these islands being clean running and self-sustaining
-Fines for Slum Lords: State collects fines from slum lords, directly impacted by poverty, poor earnings, and unemployment, as well as crime. Raising the fines angers capitalists, makes middle class slightly more happy due to their cities looking nicer and having less crime, begins as a disadvantage to the poor, but high fines are popular with them. Also popular with trade unionists who want the work
5) Parents
-Breast Feeding and Obscenity: Make it mandatory to have a room reserved for mother’s to breast feed or pump milk in all major businesses, legalize breast feeing nation wide, criminalize breastfeeding in public. Legalization is popular with parents, unpopular with the religious, unpopular with commuters(who feel awkward on public transport).
-Accompaniment laws: Regardless of feelings the recent spring of Anti-transgender bills brings a very problematic thing to caregivers of children and the disabled, which is being unable to accompany their wards to the bathroom legally. This policy would allow you to set regulations in regards to whether caregivers are exempt, legal guardians are exempt, or whether it applies on all ground. Making it apply across the board angers parents, angers youth progressively, lowers tourism and lowers productivity due to people having to be concerned about whether they can poop or not. Stricter controls makes religious more happy, but consertives cap half way due to affects this could have on discouraging people from having children and dealing with the hassle.
- Big Brother, Big Sister(mentor mentee): This program pairs older people with younger people. Boosts Retirees, parents, youth, liberal and conservatives. Unpopular with the wealthy, very slightly with ethnic minorities who fear older people will respond negatively to them, and farmers who fear this will take away the time of younger cheaper kids who want to work in the summers.

Also thought of events/scenarios
• Cabinet money laundering/embezzlement scandal damages your gov.
• A well known billionaire begins investing in different companies of his own choosing. Popular with capitalists.
• A well known billionaire invests in technology
• A well known bank is caught in a housing mortgage scandal, increasing homelessness
• A former staff accuses you of blackballing them after they threatened to go public about a government bribery scandal (encourage, or silently have the staffer discredited)
• A well known athlete goes to an enemy embargoed state against the advice of your government and gives a harsh critique of your policies. Could also be a scenario and you can choose to deny them reentry to the state or defend their freedom to travel and free speech. Both would earn you patriot points, but denying is strictly conservative and anti liberal.
• A well known national bridge collapses during rush hour traffic resulting in a number of deaths and injuries, but most importantly terrifying the nation with how weak your infrastructure is. Decrease in popularity with motorists and commuters.
• Well known staff member says Happy Holidays, do you acknowledge the predominant national faith when questioned or maintain that you do wish everyone and every faith a happy holiday?
• A well known documentarian exposes ethnically biased housing practices that have left some groups of people in areas known for high rates of environmentally caused illness. People assume you actively did nothing about it. Could be a scenario where you can choose to say people have to do their research before they decide where they live (big hit to the poor and ethnic minorities, but pop. With capitalists and the wealthy) Or whether these practices are unpatriotic and must change(patriot goes up, socialist goes up, youth goes up)
• -Disability and Stroller Access Act: Pass or veto a bill mandating public spaces have ramp or elevator capacity. (Affects parents, and is popular with commuters due to their being more space at terminals & no longer having to wait on others.
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