Political party
A political party is an alliance between interest groups. They appear in countries that have elections, and are absent in countries without them, differentiating the experience and mechanics of democratic countries from autocratic ones.
Interest groups band together into political parties for the purposes of elections and forming governments. There are many dynamic names and conditions that work to create plausible and flavorful parties no matter which direction the player chooses to guide their country.
Party types[edit | edit source]
There are 11 potential political parties that interest groups can join. Many of these parties are aligned primarily around a particular interest group's core ideologies, and other interest groups may join under the right circumstances. Other parties are aligned more strongly with leader ideologies that emerge throughout the game, such as the Communist Party and the Radical Party.
At any given time, any combination of these parties might or not exist. Parties emerge and disband dynamically, so the political landscape can be very different between countries and playthroughs.
The following parties can emerge throughout the game:
- The Agrarian Party
- The Anarchist Society
- The Communist Party
- The Conservative Party
- The Fascist Party
- The Faith Party
- The Free Trade Party
- The Liberal Party
- The Patriotic Party
- The Radical Party
- The Social Democratic Party
The different party types have no mechanical differences, other than influencing how and which interest groups ally with others. For instance, the Liberal Party is the natural home of the 
Intelligentsia due to their liberal ideology, but they may be swayed towards other parties under various circumstances.
Note: Each of these parties has a variety of dynamic names based on national, cultural, and religious factors. For example, in 
Great Britain the Conservative Party is localized as the Tories, while in 
America they are known as the Democratic Party. The Faith Party is often named after the country's state religion.
Party formation[edit | edit source]
Interest groups may join a political party if they are not 
marginalized and if their country has any of the laws that allow elections. Interest groups decide to join or leave a party each time an election starts, and remain with that party at least until the next election.
Which political party an interest group joins is determined by a wide variety of factors, some of which are:
- Interest groups with the Republican, Radical, Market Liberal, or Reformer leader ideologies are much more likely to join the Liberal party.
- The
industrialists are more likely to be drawn towards the Conservative party if the country has public healthcare or schools, or when voting laws allow the lower strata to vote. - Weaker IG's might join the Agrarian party alongside the
rural folk in a push to abolish Serfdom. Scandinavian countries are much more likely to develop an Agrarian party. - In a Council Republic, IGs led by anarchist leaders might leave the Communist party if the country's ruler is a vanguardist.
- When an IG with a Fascist leader becomes powerful, weaker conservative IGs might join the Fascist party in a bid to retain their political relevance.
- If a powerful IG has a Social Democratic leader, weaker leftist IGs may fall in line behind their more moderate cousins. Likewise, weaker Social Democrats might join a stronger Communist party.
Party requirements[edit | edit source]
| Party | Requirements to Form | Requirements to Join |
|---|---|---|
 Agrarian
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 Rural Folk are not marginalized
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None |
 Anarchist
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Leader has  Anarchist ideology
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 Communist
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 Conservative
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 Landowners are not marginalized
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Not  Trade Unions
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 Fascist
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Has researched  Political Agitation
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None |
 Faith
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None | None |
 Free Trade
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None |
 Liberal
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 Patriotic
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 Armed Forces are not marginalized
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None |
 Radical
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 Social Democrats
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Party attraction[edit | edit source]
The following is a list of all party attraction modifiers. An interest group must have at least +1 attraction to join a party and always joins the party it has the highest attraction to. Multiplicative modifiers apply after summing all additive modifiers.
| Modifier | Condition |
|---|---|
| ×2 | Is influential and only one other member in party |
| ×0.5 | Two other members in party |
| ×0.25 | Three other members in party |
| ×0.1 | More than three other members in party |
| Modifier | Party Condition | Country Condition |
|---|---|---|
| −5 | Base value | |
| +10 | Is powerful and has Agrarian ideology | |
| +10 | Is not powerful and opposes Serfdom | Has Serfdom |
| +10 | Is Rural Folk or Intelligentsia | Has a Scandinavian primary culture |
| +6 | Has Pacifist ideology | Does not have No Colonial Affairs |
| +6 | Has Isolationist, Populist or Reactionary ideology | Has No Migration Controls |
| +6 | Has Liberal or Particularist ideology | Has Local Police Force or Militarized Police Force |
| +6 | Has Meritocratic, Agrarian or Social Democrat ideology | Has Land-Based Taxation |
| +6 | Has Proletarian, Agrarian or Paternalistic ideology and does not have Market Liberal ideology | Has Free Trade |
| +6 | Has Proletarian or Agrarian ideology and does not have Market Liberal ideology | Has Laissez-Faire |
| +6 | Has Jingoist, Particularist, Sikh Moralis, Fascist, Anarchist or Pacifist ideology | Has Peasant Levies |
| +10 | Has Egalitarian, Anti-Slavery, Laissez-Faire, Particularist, Abolitionist, Social Democrat or Communist ideology | Has Serfdom |
| +10 | Has Anti-Slavery or Abolitionist ideology | Has Debt Slavery |
| −20 | Rural Folk are not members of the party | |
| ×2 | Is Rural Folk and powerful |
| Modifier | Party Condition | Country Condition |
|---|---|---|
| −5 | Base value | |
| +6 | Has Anarchist ideology | |
| +10 | Is powerful and has Anarchist ideology | |
| +10 | Has Anarchist ideology | Has Council Republic and ruler is Vanguardist |
| +5 | Has Anarchist ideology and no non-marginalized interest group has Communist or Vanguardist ideology | |
| +3 | Has Radical or Anarchist ideology | Has Outlawed Dissent or Censorship |
| +3 | Has Liberal or Egalitarian ideology | Has Outlawed Dissent |
| +3 | Has Meritocratic, Agrarian or Social Democrat ideology | Has Land-Based Taxation |
| +3 | Has Anti-Clerical or Atheist ideology | Has State Religion |
| +3 | Has Jingoist, Particularist, Sikh Moralist, Anarchist or Pacifist ideology | Has Peasant Levies |
| +5 | Has Anti-Slavery or Abolitionist ideology | Has Slave Trade or Legacy Slavery |
| +5 | Has Egalitarian, Anti-Slavery, Laissez-Faire, Particularist, Abolitionist, Social Democrat or Communist ideology | Has Serfdom |
| +3 | Has Republican, Populist, Atheist or Radical ideology and country has Monarchy or Theocracy |
| Modifier | Party Condition | Country Condition |
|---|---|---|
| −5 | Base value | |
| +10 | Has Communist, Vanguardist or Anarchist ideology | |
| +10 | Is powerful and has Communist, Vanguardist or Anarchist ideology | |
| +6 | Is not powerful and has Social Democrat or Radical ideology and any powerful interest group has Communist, Vanguardist or Anarchist ideology | |
| −10 | Has Anarchist ideology | Has Council Republic and ruler is Vanguardist |
| −3 | Has Reactionary ideology | |
| +2 | Is Trade Unions | |
| −3 | Leader is Moderate | |
| +3 | Has Meritocratic, Agrarian or Social Democrat ideology | Has Land-Based Taxation |
| +3 | Has Anti-Clerical or Atheist ideology | Has State Religion |
| +3 | Has Proletarian, Agrarian or Paternalistic ideology and does not have Market Liberal ideology | Has Free Trade |
| +3 | Has Proletarian or Agrarian ideology and does not have Market Liberal ideology | Has Lassiez-Faire |
| +3 | Has Proletarian or Social Democrat Ideology | Does not have Graduated Taxation |
| +3 | Has Loyalist ideology | Does not have Per-Capita Taxation, Proportional Taxation or Graduated Taxation |
| +5 | Has Egalitarian, Anti-Slavery, Laissez-Faire, Particularist, Abolitionist, Social Democrat or Communist ideology | Has Serfdom |
| +5 | Has Anti-Slavery or Abolitionist ideology | Has Legacy Slavery or Slave Trade |
| +3 | Has Republican, Populist, Atheist or Radical ideology | Has Monarchy or Theocracy |
| Modifier | Party Condition | Country Condition |
|---|---|---|
| −5 | Base value | |
| −20 | Has Communist, Vanguardist, Anarchist, Social Democrat, Radical or Atheist ideology | |
| +5 | Has Traditionalist, Royalist, Theocrat or Slaver ideology | |
| +5 | Has Paternalistic, Stratocratic, Patriarchal or Moralist ideology | |
| +5 | Is Armed Forces and powerful party member has Jingoist ideology | |
| +5 | Is Landowners and clout is at least 15% | |
| −5 | Has Feminist, Pacifist or Reformer ideology | |
| −20 | Has Abolitionist ideology | Does not have Slavery Banned |
| +5 | Has Patriotic ideology | |
| +5 | Has Plutocratic or Paternalistic ideology | Has Universal Suffrage |
| +2 | Has Plutocratic or Stratocratic ideology | Has Graduated Taxation |
| +2 | Has Individualist ideology | Has Public Health Insurance |
| +2 | Has Individualist or Pious ideology | Has Public Schools |
| +5 | Has Moralist ideology | Has Total Separation |
| +3 | Has Moralist ideology | Has Freedom of Conscience |
| +3 | Has Patriarchal ideology | Has Women's Suffrage |
| +2 | Has Patriarchal ideology | Has Women in the Workplace |
| +2 | Has Reactionary ideology | Has Multiculturalism |
| +2 | Has Patriotic ideology | Has Guaranteed Liberties |
| +3 | Has Patriarchal ideology | Has researched Law Enforcement and has Right of Assembly or Protected Speech |
| +3 | Has Moralist or Paternalistic ideology | Does not have Monarchy or Theocracy |
| +5 | Has Stratocratic or Laissez-Faire ideology | Has Regulatory Bodies or Worker's Protections |
| +5 | Has Stratocratic or Individualist ideology | Has Wage Subsidies or Old Age Pension |
| +3 | Has Paternalist or Patriotic ideology | Has researched Law Enforcement and has No Police |
| +100 | Leader has Slaver ideology | Has active journal entry The Slavery Debate |
| −100 | Leader has Abolitionist ideology | Has active journal entry The Slavery Debate |
| ×2 | Is Landowners and powerful |
| Modifier | Party Condition | Country Condition |
|---|---|---|
| −5 | Base value | |
| +10 | Has Fascist or Ethno-Nationalist ideology | |
| +10 | Is powerful and has Fascist ideology | |
| +5 | Has Reactionary ideology | |
| +5 | Is not powerful and is Landowners, Devout, Petite Bourgeoisie, Industrialists or Armed Forces and any powerful interest group has Fascist ideology | |
| −10 | Has Atheist, Feminist, Reformer, Abolitionist or Pacifist ideology | |
| −2 | Is Trade Unions | |
| −2 | Has Market Liberal ideology | |
| −3 | Leader is Moderate | |
| +4 | Has Patriotic ideology | |
| +5 | Has Isolationist ideology | Has No Migration Controls |
| +3 | Has Paternalist or Patriotic ideology | Has researched Law Enforcement and has No Police |
| +3 | Has Jingoist, Particularist, Sikh Moralist or Fascist ideology | Has Peasant Levies |
| +3 | Has Meritocratic ideology | Does not have Proportional Taxation or Per-Capita Taxation |
| +3 | Has Loyalist ideology | Does not have Graduated Taxation, Proportional Taxation or Per-Capita Taxation |
| Modifier | Party Condition | Country Condition |
|---|---|---|
| −5 | Base value | |
| −5 | Is Landowners and is not marginalized | |
| +5 | Is Devout | Has Theocracy |
| −20 | Devout are not members of the party | |
| +10 | Is Devout and is powerful | |
| +10 | Has Traditionalist or Theocrat ideology and is not powerful and Devout are powerful | |
| −15 | Has Anti-Clerical or Atheist ideology | |
| +3 | Has Patriarchal ideology | Has Women's Suffrage |
| ×2 | Is Devout and powerful |
| Modifier | Party Condition | Country Condition |
|---|---|---|
| −5 | Base value | |
| +5 | Has Laissez-Faire or Market Liberal ideology | |
| +10 | Is powerful and has Laissez-Faire or Market Liberal ideology | |
| +5 | Is not powerful has Market Liberal ideology and Industrialists are powerful | |
| +5 | Has Stratocratic or Laissez-Faire ideology | Has Regulatory Bodies or Worker Protections |
| +5 | Has Stratocratic or Individualist ideology | Has Wage Subsidies or Old Age Pension |
| +3 | Has Laissez-Faire or Market Liberal ideology | Does not have Child Labor Allowed |
| +3 | Has Laissez-Faire or Market Liberal ideology | Does not have Free Trade |
| +3 | Has Plutocratic ideology | Does not have Oligarchy or Wealth Voting |
| +3 | Has Republican ideology | Has Autocracy |
| +3 | Has Paternalistic or Fascist ideology | Has Universal Suffrage |
| +3 | Has Plutocratic or Meritocratic ideology | Has researched Currency Standards and does not have Per-Capita Taxation or Consumption-Based Taxation |
| +3 | Has Plutocratic, Meritocratic or Stratocratic ideology | Has Graduated Taxation |
| +3 | Has Agrarian or Stratocratic ideology | Does not have Per-Capita Taxation or Consumption-Based Taxation |
| +3 | Has Paternalistic, Laissez-Faire, Agrarian or Market Liberal ideology | Has researched Central Planning and has Command Economy |
| +3 | Has Individualist or Anti-Clerical ideology | Has researched Academia and has No Schools or Religious Schools |
| ×2 | Is Industrialists and powerful |
| Modifier | Party Condition | Country Condition |
|---|---|---|
| −5 | Base value | |
| +5 | Has Republican, Radical, Reformer or Market Liberal ideology | |
| +5 | Has Liberal or Laissez-Faire Ideology | |
| +5 | Has Feminist, Abolitionist, Pacifist, Social Democrat or Atheist ideology | |
| −5 | Has Traditionalist, Royalist, Theocrat or Slaver ideology | |
| +3 | Has Meritocratic or Anti-Clerical ideology | Has Hereditary Bureaucrats |
| +5 | Is Armed Forces and powerful party member has Jingoist ideology | |
| +3 | Has Individualist or Proletarian ideology | Has No Schools or Religious Schools |
| +3 | Has Feminist, Liberal or Egalitarian ideology | Has Legal Guardianship |
| +3 | Has Reformer or Liberal ideology | Has Ethnostate, National Supremacy or Racial Segregation |
| +3 | Has Liberal or Egalitarian ideology | Has Outlawed Dissent |
| +3 | Has Liberal or Particularist ideology | Has Local Police Force or Militarized Police Force |
| +3 | Has Anti-Clerical or Atheist ideology | Has State Religion |
| +3 | Has Republican, Populist, Atheist or Radical ideology | Has Monarchy or Theocracy |
| +5 | Has Particularist or Abolitionist ideology | Has Debt Slavery |
| +5 | Has Anti-Slavery or Abolitionist ideology | Has Legacy Slavery or Slave Trade |
| +5 | Has Egalitarian, Anti-Slavery, Laissez-Faire, Particularist, Abolitionist, Social Democrat or Communist ideology | Has Serfdom |
| +100 | Leader has Abolitionist ideology | Has active journal entry The Slavery Debate |
| −100 | Leader has Slaver ideology | Has active journal entry The Slavery Debate |
| ×2 | Is Intelligentsia and powerful |
| Modifier | Party Condition | Country Condition |
|---|---|---|
| −5 | Base value | |
| −20 | Armed Forces are not members of the party | |
| +10 | Is Armed Forces and powerful | |
| +10 | Leader is Jingoist | |
| +3 | Has Paternalist or Patriotic ideology | Has researched Law Enforcement and has No Police |
| +3 | Has Jingoist, Particularist, Sikh Moralist, Fascist, Anarchist or Pacifist ideology | Has Peasant Levies |
| +3 | Has Proletarian, Social Democrat or Loyalist ideology | Does not have Per-Capita Taxation, Proportional Taxation or Graduated Taxation |
| +3 | Has Meritocratic ideology | Does not have Per-Capita Taxation or Proportional Taxation |
| ×2 | Is Armed Forces and powerful |
| Modifier | Party Condition | Country Condition |
|---|---|---|
| −5 | Base value | |
| +5 | Has Radical ideology | |
| +10 | Is powerful and has Radical Ideology | |
| −5 | Has Radical ideology and is not powerful and any powerful interest group has Liberal ideology | |
| +10 | Has Liberal ideology and is not powerful and any powerful interest group has Radical ideology | |
| +10 | Has Communist, Vanguardist or Anarchist ideology and is not powerful and any powerful interest group has Radical ideology | Does not have Council Republic |
| +10 | Has Feminist, Abolitionist, Pacifist, Social Democrat, Reformer or Atheist ideology or leader is Republican | |
| +10 | Has Republican, Populist, Atheist or Radical ideology | Has Monarchy or Theocracy |
| +3 | Has Particularist ideology | Has Serfdom or Debt Slavery |
| −3 | Leader is Moderate | |
| +10 | Has Republican, Populist, Radical or Social Democrat ideology | Does not have Universal Suffrage |
| +3 | Has Radical or Anarchist ideology | Has Outlawed Dissent or Censorship |
| +6 | Has Liberal or Egalitarian ideology | Has Outlawed Dissent |
| +6 | Has Liberal or Radical ideology | Has National Guard or Secret Police |
| +3 | Has Anti-Slavery or Abolitionist ideology | Has Legacy Slavery or Slave Trade |
| +3 | Has Egalitarian, Anti-Slavery, Laissez-Faire, Particularist, Abolitionist, Social Democrat or Communist ideology | Has Serfdom |
| Modifier | Party Condition | Country Condition |
|---|---|---|
| −5 | Base value | |
| +5 | Has Social Democrat ideology | |
| +5 | Has Social Democrat ideology and is powerful | |
| −5 | Has Social Democrat ideology and is not powerful and any powerful interest group has Communist, Vanguardist or Anarchist ideology | |
| +6 | Has Communist, Vanguardist or Anarchist ideology and is not powerful and any powerful interest group has Social Democrat ideology | Does not have Council Republic |
| +5 | Has Liberal ideology and is not powerful and any powerful interest group has Social Democrat ideology | |
| +5 | Has Feminist, Abolitionist, Pacifist, Radical, Reformer or Atheist ideology or leader is Republican | |
| −5 | Has Market Liberal ideology | |
| +5 | Is Trade Unions and is powerful and does not have Communist, Vanguardist or Anarchist ideology | |
| +3 | Has Liberal or Egalitarian ideology | Has Outlawed Dissent |
| +3 | Has Meritocratic, Agrarian or Social Democrat ideology | Has Land-Based Taxation |
| +3 | Has Loyalist ideology | Has Consumption-Based Taxation |
| +3 | Has Republican, Populist, Atheist or Radical ideology | Has Monarchy or Theocracy |
| +3 | Has Individualist or Proletarian ideology | Has No Schools or Religious Schools |
| +3 | Has Proletarian, Agrarian or Paternalistic ideology and does not have Market Liberal ideology | Has Free Trade |
| +3 | Has Proletarian or Agrarian ideology | Has Laissez-Faire |
| +3 | Has Proletarian or Social Democrat ideology | Does not have Graduated Taxation |
| +3 | Has Loyalist ideology | Does not have Per-Capita Taxation, Proportional Taxation or Graduated Taxation |
| +5 | Has Egalitarian, Anti-Slavery, Laissez-Faire, Particularist, Abolitionist, Social Democrat or Communist ideology | Has Serfdom |
| +5 | Has Anti-Slavery or Abolitionist ideology | Has Legacy Slavery or Debt Slavery |
| ×2 | Is Trade Unions and powerful |
[edit | edit source]
Just as parties ally together when they form a government, they also share their momentum in elections, which determines their votes. During the election campaign period (which lasts 6 months before the final votes are cast), the player is likely to get events relating to the various party's campaign efforts that can have a major impact on momentum. These events are inspired by the campaigns and scandals of the period.
If, for instance, the fascist leader of the 
Petite Bourgeoisie joins the Conservative Party and is caught up in a political scandal, the whole party suffers the electoral consequences. On the other hand, as the 
Landowners begin to lose their political relevance in an increasingly industrialized economy they might cling to relevance by attaching themselves to the rising Fascist Party, who may bring them political power from the votes the whole party gains in the election.
Bloc[edit | edit source]
Interest groups must be added or removed from government as a single bloc, which means that the player needs to make strategic decisions about the makeup of their government and deal with the consequences. For example, the Liberal party may contain both the 
Intelligentsia and the Industrialists, who both back plans to move toward a free market economy but diverge on the issue of child labor.
Sometimes, an opposition interest group might decide that it wants to join a party currently in government (or vice versa). In this circumstance, the interest group leaves their old party and is marked as "wanting to join" the new party. This won't force any interest group into or out of government, but if the player decide to reform the government under these circumstances, they must treat that interest group as being a member of the new party, bringing them into or out of government as a single bloc.
