Political movement

A law reform in progress and a movement to preserve the current law.

Political movements represent popular support for certain ideologies or cultural or religious identities. Political movements draw their strength from pops and may influence interest groups. This allows pops to push for reform, even when they are disenfranchised.

Radical political movements may turn into revolutions and seek to change the political system by force.

Formation and disbanding

Political movements have a base X% chance of starting each PERIOD when checked. This is increased by X% per point of starting support the movement would have?. If there are any existing movements the chance is divided by $1+(2\cdot \#{\text{ of active movements}})$.

A movement needs at least 2.5 support to start and disbands if it has less than 1 support; a movement cannot disband due to low support until 12 months have passed. After that time, there is a cumulative 0.04% chance for it to disband each month after the initial 12 months. The disband chance is divided by $1+(0.01\cdot {\text{movement support}})$. However, this does not apply to movements which have become revolutionary.

Political movement categories

There are five general types of movements:

Category	Support to		Identity based
	Create	Maintain
Ideological	5	2.5
Pan-national	5	2.5
Cultural	10	5
Cultural majority	5	2.5
Religious	10	5

Cultural, Religious, and Pan-national movements might contribute to Obstinance.

Political movement types

Within each of these categories are one or more specific movement types. Each type of movement has a core ideology and may have a number of character ideologies that can be assigned to leaders of interest groups that are pressured by the movement. Each movement type has certain conditions to be created and may have conditions which cause it to be disbanded. There are additional triggers and weights to determine  agitator and pop support for a movement

Cat.	Type	Core ideology	Character ideologies	Formation conditions	Disband conditions
	Abolitionist	Anti-Slavery	Abolitionist Humanitarian	Does not have Slavery Banned Has researched Empiricism	Has Slavery Banned
	Pro-Slavery	Pro-Slavery	Slaver Jacksonian Democrat	Does not have Slavery Banned
	Absolutist	Absolutist	Royalist Authoritarian	Has Monarchy Does not have voting Is not France	Either: Has voting Has completed Stamp Out Monarchism journal entry
	Royalist	Royalist	Royalist Enlightened Royalist	Has Monarchy Has voting Is not France	Has completed Stamp Out Monarchism journal entry
	Labor	Proletarian	Radical Reformer Social Democrat Utopian	Has researched Labor Movement
	Socialist	Socialist	Anarchist Communist Social Democrat Vanguardist	Has researched Socialism	Selected an ideology AnarchistCharacter ideologyAnarchist This leader seeks the abolishment of hierarchy, authority and the state, leaving people to govern themselves.Stance on Citizenship Strongly Oppose Ethnostate, National Supremacy and Subjecthood Oppose Racial Segregation Endorse Cultural Exclusion Strongly Endorse Multiculturalism Stance on Distribution of Power Strongly Oppose Technocracy, Oligarchy and Autocracy Oppose Census Suffrage, Wealth Voting, - Landed Voting and Single-Party State Neutral towards Universal Suffrage Strongly Endorse Anarchy Stance on Economic System Strongly Oppose Interventionism, Traditionalism, - Laissez-Faire and Extraction Economy Oppose Command Economy and Industry Banned Neutral towards Agrarianism Strongly Endorse Cooperative Ownership Stance on Free Speech Strongly Oppose Outlawed Dissent Oppose Censorship Endorse Right of Assembly Strongly Endorse Protected Speech Stance on Governance Principles Strongly Oppose Corporate State, Theocracy and Monarchy Oppose Presidential Republic and Parliamentary Republic Strongly Endorse Council Republic Stance on Labor Associations Strongly Oppose Guild System and Corporatized Unions Oppose Combination Acts Neutral towards Anti-Strike Laws and Right to Associate Endorse Factory Councils Stance on Policing Strongly Oppose Militarized Police Force Oppose Local Police Force and Dedicated Police Force Endorse No Police , CommunistCharacter ideologyCommunist This leader believes in the working class seizing political power through whatever means necessary.Stance on Church and State Strongly Oppose State Religion Oppose Freedom of Conscience Neutral towards Total Separation Endorse State Atheism Stance on Economic System Strongly Oppose Laissez-Faire, Industry Banned and Extraction Economy Oppose Agrarianism and Traditionalism Neutral towards Interventionism Strongly Endorse Command Economy and Cooperative Ownership Stance on Governance Principles Strongly Oppose Corporate State, Theocracy and Monarchy Oppose Presidential Republic and Parliamentary Republic Strongly Endorse Council Republic Stance on Labor Associations Strongly Oppose Guild System and Corporatized Unions Oppose Combination Acts Neutral towards Anti-Strike Laws and Right to Associate Endorse Factory Councils Stance on Labor Rights Neutral towards No Workers' Rights Endorse Regulatory Bodies Strongly Endorse Workers' Protections Stance on Land Reform Strongly Oppose Serfdom Oppose Commercialized Agriculture and Tenant Farmers Neutral towards Homesteading Endorse Collectivized Agriculture , or VanguardistCharacter ideologyVanguardist This leader believes in achieving a socialist society through a vanguard party of dedicated radicals.Stance on Distribution of Power Strongly Oppose Oligarchy, Autocracy, - Census Suffrage, Wealth Voting and Landed Voting Oppose Anarchy and Universal Suffrage Endorse Technocracy Strongly Endorse Single-Party State Stance on Economic System Strongly Oppose Laissez-Faire, Industry Banned and Extraction Economy Oppose Agrarianism and Traditionalism Neutral towards Interventionism Endorse Cooperative Ownership Strongly Endorse Command Economy Stance on Governance Principles Strongly Oppose Corporate State, Theocracy and Monarchy Oppose Presidential Republic and Parliamentary Republic Strongly Endorse Council Republic Stance on Labor Associations Strongly Oppose Guild System and Corporatized Unions Oppose Combination Acts Neutral towards Anti-Strike Laws and Right to Associate Endorse Factory Councils Stance on Land Reform Strongly Oppose Commercialized Agriculture and Serfdom Oppose Tenant Farmers Neutral towards Homesteading Endorse Collectivized Agriculture Stance on Trade Policy Strongly Oppose Free Trade Oppose Mercantilism Endorse Protectionism and Isolationism in The Spectre Haunting the World
	Anarchist	Anarchist	Anarchist	Has researched Anarchism
	Communist	Communist	Communist Vanguardist	Has researched Socialism
	Fascist	Fascist	Corporatist Fascist Integralist	Has researched Political Agitation
	Corporatist	Corporatist	Corporatist	Has researched Corporatism
	Liberal	Liberal	Liberal Humanitarian Market Liberal Radical Republican	Has researched Democracy
	Radical	Radical	Nihilist Radical	Has researched Egalitarianism Is not a republicA republic requires: ● Corporate State, Presidential Republic, Parliamentary Republic, or Council Republic
	Nihilist	Nihilist	Nihilist	Has researched Realism Has not researched both Anarchism and Socialism	Has researched both Anarchism and Socialism
	Positivist	Positivist	Positivist	Has researched Empiricism Positivism has appeared in the world
	Peasant	Land Reformer	Land Reformer Luddite	Has researched Enclosure Does not have either Homesteading or Collectivized Agriculture More than 25% of pops are  peasants
	Feminist	Feminist	Feminist Humanitarian	Has researched Feminism
	Reactionary	Reactionary	Authoritarian Luddite Protectionist Traditionalist	Does not have Traditionalism or Serfdom Has Slavery Banned Has voting Does not have a Legitimist movement	Has a Legitimist movement
	Modernization	Modernizer	Modernizer Abolitionist Market Liberal Protectionist Reformer	Has researched Academia Intelligentsia are not marginalized Has any of: Isolationism Serfdom Peasant Levies Guild System Any of: Extraction Economy Traditionalism Industry Banned Any of: Consumption-Based Taxation Land-Based Taxation	Has none of: Isolationism Serfdom Peasant Levies Guild System No Schools Any of: Extraction Economy Traditionalism Industry Banned Any of: Consumption-Based Taxation Land-Based Taxation
	Minority Rights	Pluralist (Cultural Exclusion version)	Reformer
	Religious Majority	Traditionalist	Theocrat Traditionalist	Does not have State Atheism	Movement's religion is not the state religion
	Religious Minority	Minoritarian Traditionalist	Minoritarian Traditionalist	Either: Is not East India Has not researched Pan-nationalism	Either: Movement's religion is the state religion Is East India and has researched Pan-nationalism
	Cultural Majority	Ethno-Nationalist	Ethno-Nationalist
	Cultural Minority	Pluralist	Reformer		Movement's culture is a primary culture
	Indian National	Sovereignist	Humanitarian Social Democrat Sovereignist	Is East India Is a subject No primary culture has South Asian Heritage Has researched Pan-nationalism
	German National	National Liberal	Ethno-Nationalist Market Liberal Liberal Republican Radical	Is a North or South German country except Germany Either North or South German culture has at least 10 fervor	Is Germany
	Italian National	National Liberal	Ethno-Nationalist Market Liberal Liberal Republican Radical	Is a North or South Italian country except Austria, Danubian State, Central Europe, and Italy Either North or South Italian culture has at least 10 fervor	Is Italy
	Yugoslav (Illyrian) National	National Liberal	Ethno-Nationalist Market Liberal Liberal Republican Radical	Either: Is a Croatian, Serbian, Bosniak, or Slovene country Is a Bulgarian country and has pursued Greater Yugoslavia Is not Yugoslavia Either Croatian, Serbian, Bosniak, or Slovene culture has at least 10 fervor	Is Yugoslavia
	Dominican National	National Liberal	Ethno-Nationalist Market Liberal Liberal Republican Radical Reformer	Owns Santo Domingo Does not have Caribeño as a primary culture	Does not own Santo Domingo
	Utilitarian	Utilitarian	Utilitarian	Has English, Anglo-Canadian, or Australian primary culture
	Orleanist	Orléanist	Orléanist	Is France or a French revolter Has not stamped out monarchy or cemented a different dynasty	Has stamped out monarchy or cemented a different dynasty
	Legitimist	Legitimist	Legitimist	Is France or a French revolter Has not stamped out monarchy or cemented a different dynasty	Has stamped out monarchy or cemented a different dynasty
	Bonapartist	Bonapartist	Bonapartist	Is France or a French revolter Has not stamped out monarchy or cemented a different dynasty	Has stamped out monarchy or cemented a different dynasty
	Carlist	Carlist	Carlist	Primary culture is Spanish, Catalan, or Basque Has not stamped out monarchy Capital is in Iberia	Either: Has stamped out monarchy Capital is not in Iberia
	Miguelist	Miguelist	Miguelist	Primary culture is Portuguese Has not stamped out monarchy Capital is in Iberia	Either: Has stamped out monarchy Capital is not in Iberia
	Hindu Nationalist	Minoritarian Traditionalist	Fascist Theocrat	Is East India or Hindustan Has researched Pan-nationalism Owns any state with an Indian culture homeland and a  Hindu pop Owns at least five if Hindustan
	Muslim Nationalist	Minoritarian Traditionalist	Social Democrat Theocrat	Is East India or Maharashtra Has researched Pan-nationalism Owns at least five states with an Indian culture homeland and a  Sunni or  Shiite pop
	Slave Revolt	Anti-Slavery	Abolitionist Humanitarian Radical	Does not have any variant of Slavery Banned Either: At least 15% of country's population is  slaves At least 55% of any state's population is  slaves	Has any variant of Slavery Banned

Starting movements

Every country starts with a number of movements depending on its starting circumstances. Certain countries have a specified set of movements instead of or in addition to these.

Movement	Conditions	Excluded countries
Absolutist	Has Monarchy Does not have voting	France
Royalist	Has Monarchy Has voting or is Portugal	France
Pro-slavery	Has any kind of slavery except Colonial Slavery
Abolitionist	Has any kind of slavery Has researched Empiricism	East India
Religious majority		East India France
Cultural majority		North and South German countries North and South Italian countries
Labor	Has researched Labor Movement
Liberal	Has voting Has researched Democracy	France

Country	Movements
Cuba Puerto Rico	Slave Revolt (Afro-Caribeño)
Brazil	Slave Revolt (Afro-Brazilian)
France	Bonapartist Legitimist Orleanist Radical
North and South German countries	German National
North and South Italian countries	Italian National
Serbia Croatia	Yugoslav/Illyrian National
Austria	Cultural minority (Polish) Cultural minority (Czech) Cultural minority (North Italian) Liberal (suppressed)
Hungary	Cultural minority (Serbian) Liberal
Prussia Russia	Cultural minority (Polish)
Haiti	Dominican National
Spain	Carlist (suppressed) Liberal
Carlist Spain	Carlist Liberal (suppressed) Cultural minority (Basque)
Portugal	Miguelist (suppressed) Liberal
Great Britain	Cultural minority (Irish)
Ottoman Empire Paraguay Siam	Modernization
East India	Utilitarian Religious minority (Hindu) Religious minority (Sunni)
Ontario Quebec	Radical

Support

A movement gains one third of its support each from the number of supporting pops, number of supporting military personnel, and amount of supporting wealth.

• 0.34% for each percentage of country's population supporting the movement
• 0.33% for each percentage of military personnel supporting the movement
• 0.33% for each point raw pop political power supporting the movement

Bolstering and suppression

Impact source
Outlawed Dissent	+50%	−50%
Censorship	+40%	−40%
Right of Assembly	+30%	−30%
Per  Home Affairs level with Secret Police	—	−5%

Political movements can be  bolstered or  suppressed to affect their pop attraction. It costs 200  Authority to bolster or suppress a political movement and the action can be cancelled at any time. The ability to bolster or suppress any interest group also depends on the country having bolstered or suppression impact. This comes from laws, institutions, or modifiers. If its value is 0%, movements cannot be bolstered or suppressed.

The bolster or suppress impact is a modifier to the pop attraction values.

Activism

Movements gain  activism based on its stances towards the country's current laws as well as various other factors depending the movement. Activism changes by 1% each week towards the target level.

General activism factors

Source	Impact
Per enacted law Multiplied by stance direction and level	±5
Per recently enacted law Multiplied by stance direction and level	±25
Radical supporting pops Scaled by percent of all supporting pops	+100
Loyalist supporting pops Scaled by percent of all supporting pops	−75

When starting or cancelling a law enactment, half of the new target activism is applied immediately, while the rest ticks up as usual.

Movements with less than 25% activism do not affect enactment success and failure chances. Additionally, while a law the movement has a stance on is being enacted, activism cannot drop below 25%.

Movements that have more than 50% activism become obstinate.

Movements that have more than 75% activism become revolutionary.

Movements that have more than 50 activism also increase pop  radicalism. Each month between 0.5% and 2.5% of pops supporting the movement become more radical.

Revolution

A revolutionary movement begins organizing towards starting a civil war. This is represented by a progress bar from 0% to 100%. If the bar reaches 100%, the revolution starts a diplomatic play to overthrow the country's current government. If this happens, the player can choose to play as either the government or the revolution. Revolutions can thus be used as a tool for political and social change in the player's country.

Revolution progress is based primarily on the movement's radicalism, but certain events can also increase or decrease progress. Revolution progress is updated periodically, with a base interval of 8 weeks. Each checkpoint also triggers a revolution event.

If the political movement disbands or has less than 50 radicalism, the revolution stops organizing immediately.

Revolution progress

Each checkpoint, revolution progress changes towards the movement's radicalism value. The amount of change is capped between −10% and +25%. A movement with less than 100 radicalism never becomes a civil war unless an event tips the progress over 100%.

Revolution states

While the revolution is organizing, hovering over it shows which states are likely to join the revolution. The proportion of states is equal to 1.5 times the movement's support, capped at 75% of the country's states. If the country has only a single state, the state is split, instead.

The chance of each state to join the revolution is based on the local clout of interest groups supporting the revolution with an additional bias for adjacent states to avoid a patchwork situation.

Civil war

Once revolution progress reaches 100%, the revolution immediately forms a revolutionary country and starts a revolution diplomatic play. During the opening moves phase, the player can choose to switch sides and play as the revolution rather than the government. Other countries may join the diplomatic play as normal, though not all sways are available.

The revolutionary country is based on the main country's definition, which means that changes during gameplay to recognition, primary cultures, and state religion are not copied. The revolutionary country does copy researched technology. Laws are all copied as well, except that the movement's desired law is enacted, plus up to two more laws that are preferred by the supporting interest groups. The original country keeps all diplomatic pacts, and the revolutionary country starts with none. All characters affiliated with the revolutionary interest groups switch to the new revolutionary country.

All  radicals in pops supporting the rebelling interest groups become neutral when a civil war starts.

End of the civil war

When the civil war ends, 50% of all radicals become neutral, with an additional 25% in pops that supported defeated interest groups and 50% in pops in that supported victorious interest groups.

Losing interest groups also suffer −100% political strength for 10 years.

References

1. See /Victoria 3/game/common/defines/00_defines.txt: NPolitics for defines related to political movements and revolutions

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