Religion

[lucamotives]

Can I still increase religion ?

[Monofinger]

I think that it's only possible if there is any church near (you will need auto generated cities)

[pao77]

You can use mods, there are churches

[Saint Landwalker]

You can also place churches using the Cheat Menu.

[thehides]

First you go to the workshop get yourself a buildable church. Once you build one, give it some time. People will attend church if there is one nearby. Assuming you are using immigrant workers, at first the attendace will be minimal but as the satisfaction will get higher so will the attendance which will boost the satisfaction until attendance becomes a regular thing for the people. If you are building on a pre-populated map then attendance shouldn't be much of an issue.

Adult Children do not appear to attend church at all in my experience, so I would recommend you keep the "housing market" in a good state of health. This is why I had a situation where most workers were on 70-95% religious sympathy when clicking at each individual block of flats but the town hall was displaying 45% faith. It's all the adult children hovering at about 10-15% bringing the numbers down...

If you want to go even further you can sprinkle in some anti-alcohol content on the Radio and TV stations which boosts religious sympathy but being a radio-TV station the effect is limited. Also it doesn't boost happiness, it only makes people want to go to church more often. Which is what will eventually help the overall happiness.

Honestly for me, as a religious person myself, I can't really enjoy the game without churches. But I understand why it wasn't included in the base game since socialist countries weren't known for their high respect of plurality...

[polcorp]

For my part, I am not religious. And to stick to the spirit of the game, I avoid building churches (we're socialists, lol).

So I use 2 workshop mods: the logo "Стела ЧАЭС им В.И.Ленина", where Lenin's name acts like a church.
And later, once my economy has developed, I use the very nice bookstore from the RPDC collection, which can serve several neighborhoods arranged around it.

But as said, it's to stick to the theme. These 2 workshop objects ultimately act like the different models of churches that you will find on the Workshop (orthodox church, etc.).