The Ultimate Guide to a Communist Sordland

Like Socialism? Here is a complete walkthrough to make reform Sordland into a Communist Republic. Seize power for true socialist democracy in whatever way you please! This guide is up to date for version 3.1.0 Build 133.

Prologue

This guide will only work on Suzerain 3.1.0 and later. As of writing, the 3.1.0 update is only available for PC/Mac and mobile. If you are playing on the Nintendo Switch, this guide may not work for you as there will be things mentioned that you cannot do. This guide was originally written for 2.0_release_0.6, but it has been updated to the release version of 3.1.0 Build 133.

This guide is a walkthrough for three variations of the same basic run through your first term as president of Sordland. Your first step, however, is outside of the game: what kind of communist Sordland do you want to lead? This guide covers these three options:

• A Democratic Communist Sordland under a non-USP party (referred to as the democratic path)
  
• An Authoritarian Communist Sordland under a non-USP party (referred to as the ACP authoritarian path)
  
• An Authoritarian Communist Sordland under the USP that has imprisoned all major opposition figures and oligarchs (referred to as the SSP authoritarian path)

Once you have chosen your path, play through the prologue like this:

1. If you're on the SSP authoritarian path, start poor. Otherwise start middle class. There's no real benefit to starting rich unless you just like having a higher number of personal wealth.
   
2. Pick any education and group involvement you like. I recommend studying economics and joining a student council since it gives the biggest boost to the economy. If are on the democratic path and you want to change the citizenship articles (articles 6 & 7), you may want to study law. If you'd like to get Rumburg sanctioned, you may want to join a human rights group.
   
3. Tell Monica you wholeheartedly support her cause. Down with kitchen slavery!
   
4. Join the Red Youth, obviously.
   
5. If you're on the SSP authoritarian path, vote for the USP when Soll wins the civil war. Otherwise vote or don't vote to your heart's truest wish.
   
6. Let the refugees slip through. We need the Bluds to like us a little bit in order to give them rights later on. The opinion of the military shouldn't be a problem unless you say the wrong thing to them during your term.
   
7. Sacrifice family time to improve your position in the party. We want Gloria to like us at least a little bit in the beginning of our term.
   
8. Wholly support Alphonso over Soll in every option that comes up. The 2.0 update turned Alphonso and the gas company Gasom into a major player throughout your term and you need him to like you to get the best deal for Sordland, Gasom, and, most importantly, Gasom's workers. To that end, join the internal opposition, vote for Alphonso, join the party effort and campaign for Alphonso, and privately advise Alphonso to step down. This will make him the most friendly towards you that he can be even with your dedication to the planned economy.
   
9. Promise to enact democratic reforms.

I don't believe the amount of cowardice you exhibit and your personal feelings matter, but I fully involve Rayne in the history of the country (stand my ground, run to save the girl, etc) and do things for selfless reasons (worry about the recession, improve the country, etc).

Chapter I: President Rayne

Turn I

Your promises should be:

• Promote Planned Economy
  
• Align East
  
• Retain Relaxed Immigration
  
• Term focus on health OR education. DO NOT PICK MILITARY. Your term focus is what the people expect you to increase funding for during your term. Personally I always pick education since I have a feeling it gives slightly more popularity and it has a semi-hidden synergy with a few investments and choices that really give your economy a boost at the end of the game.

Generally dialogue options don't matter too much unless otherwise specified. Overall throughout the whole game though:

• Defer to Iosef's expertise (despite defunding him, lol)
  
• Be diplomatic with everyone (unless you are about to arrest them).
  
• Be feminist with Monica

I find that this makes things a little bit easier than otherwise, although I'm not sure if it makes a difference.

These are the actions you should take this turn:

• If you've chosen the democratic path, "write a more democratic Constitution with the reformists." Otherwise, "[t]he new Constitution should give the President wide-ranging powers." On the second option you'll have to do some convincing to get Petr and Lucian to agree. You'll know you're on an authoritarian path if you choose to "draft a bill with more executive powers." Otherwise, load the most recent save and start this conversation again.
  
• "Promote a planned economy as we promised."
  
• Agree to meet with Marcel Koronti, but have Lucian on the phone. We will take his deal as it gives us a large popularity boost throughout our term despite the nationalization.
  
• If you're on the SSP authoritarian path, sign the Electoral Campaign Finance Bill. You need every extra bit of popularity you can get and for some reason this bill gives you some. Otherwise veto it. Since you're going to leave the USP anyway, you don't want to deprive your next party of valuable funds.
  
• Invest in a mega-infrastructure project.
  
• Build the H-3 highway project. Our main economic strategy is to bolster the provinces rather than investing in the center.
  
• Put all of your personal wealth into Arcasian Company Stocks. You need every penny you can get to lobby the assembly and (depending on your path) paying for Serge's family and investing into FC Anrica. If you started rich you can afford to put just 2 personal wealth into the stocks and then give 1 personal wealth to the Alphonso foundation, but you'd probably get more popularity by just starting middle class.
  
• Don't sick the guards on the reporter!

Turn II

• "Franc, turn down that racket and open the door!" is the quickest way to get Franc to open the door.
  
• Stay on good terms with all of your ministers and the military during the security briefing. Probably don't throw UC under the bus.
  
• React to the situation by visiting affected towns in person.
  
• Be diplomatic with Tusk and take his bigger bribe (we both know you can do better than that). You need this money either to lobby the assembly if you started poor on the SSP authoritarian path or to get Serge's good luck charm on the other paths.
  
• Take Marcel's deal. Taking his deal and nationalizing both companies will mean you get the popularity benefits he gives you without the benefits to the assembly vote or justice vote on your constitution. That's fine though because our popularity and lobbying will get us where we need to be in the assembly and our maneuvering will get us where we need to be in the court.
  
• Provide stimulus cheques for people in need.
  
• Pick the Sordish State Corporation for construction regardless of Tusk's bribe. He'll be out of the picture once you nationalize the major companies.
  
• Attend the funeral of Bernard Circas and let the red yutes in without a security detail. Hold your own umbrella!
  
• Be open to trade deals with Agnolia and Wehlen, and supportive of relaxed immigration. Be open to diplomacy with Valgsland.
  
• Close the consulate in Dome. It gives you a bit more popularity and we need to maximize that.
  
• Be open to the deal with Gasom. You don't need to hear anything about Rizia if you don't want to. Be open to Rizia's investment, though.
  
• Discuss your proposed constitutional reforms with your ministers.
  
• Sign the Tourism and Cultural Preservation Act. It helps with the tourism which helps the economy and it helps with popularity.
  
• End the meeting with Hawker AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. We are not starting an emergency decree run.

Turn III

• Feel free to tell Franc about your past and how a communist revolution is necessary.
  
• If you're on the democratic path or the ACP authoritarian path, give Serge 2 of your personal wealth so he gives you his good luck charm before the assembly vote. Otherwise, don't give Serge any money since you need every penny for the assembly.
  
• Stay true to the welfare state and socialism in the welfare briefing. Be open to compromise at your next meeting with Gasom.
  
• In the meeting with Gus and Alphonso, just don't make any snide remarks to them. Invest 2 budget into Gasom ("tell Rizia to back off"). Address the concerns of the Gasom workers by asking for better housing, access to healthcare, and opportunities for education. Since you've just won the workers' demands, prepare to face the crowd head on.
  
• "Address the protestors and leave via car."
  
• While addressing the protesters, lean on the fact that you have made real progress. Dialogue options that talk about progress in a future date will make them a bit cross with you. Ultimately the good news will win them over. Don't leave at the first opportunity.
  
• Don't ban any youth groups. Banning youth groups causes unrest that we really want to avoid. In addition, you will have to unban the Young Sords with Kibener. You can ban the Young Sords on the Democratic Path.
  
• Veto the GREEN Act. Your budget and the economy are very precarious so it's best to just not do it.

The general strategy with the constitution is that the SSP authoritarian path must compromise heavily with the Assembly, but the democratic and ACP authoritarian paths do not. Now that we're on the constitution, here are the changes to implement:

1. ACP Authoritarian: Pocket veto; SSP Authoritarian: Limit vetoes 3/5; Democratic: Limit vetoes 3/5.
   
2. Remove Supreme Court's Voting Rights.
   
3. The Assembly and the Supreme Court may impeach.
   
4. Confidence vote required.
   
5. Authoritarian: Do not change threshold; Democratic: Reduce threshold to 8% only if you're going for Articles 6 & 7 and running for reelection with your own party rather than the People's Front. Otherwise, do not change threshold.
   
6. Authoritarian: Stronger presidential decrees; Democratic: Do not change decrees.
   
7. SSP Authoritarian and Democratic with Articles 6 & 7: 2 term limit; Any choice on other paths.
   
8. SSP Authoritarian/Democratic: Justices may be impeached by the Assembly; ACP Authoritarian: President picks justices.
   
9. Abolish Member of Honor Title (or no change for 6 & 7).

• Keep the EPA at 20%. This is necessary for the planned economy strategy.
  
• Say whatever to the Business Council and don't promise Tusk a tax cut.
  
• At the budget meeting be diplomatic, but don't lie. Say we should spend as much as possible to achieve growth.
  
• Increase health funding, increase education funding, increase law enforcement funding, and decrease military funding. This will upset the military, but as long as you don't transfer the gendarmerie away from them, cause mass unrest, or out yourself as a communist in front of them, you will avoid a coup.

Chapter II: A New Sordland

Turn IV

• Sign the Workers' Rights Act
  
• Put a Regional Investment in Lorren.
  
• For the SSP authoritarian path, allocate the budget to the Ministry of the Interior and form the Secret State Police. For the democratic and ACP authoritarian paths, allocate the budget to the Ministry of Justice and form the Anti-Corruption Police. Do not bother with the SSP on the Democratic Path.
  
• With Monica, either allow her to make a speech, or not. Ultimately Gloria won't let you do it.
  
• Give the SSC more funds to make the deadline. The highway needs to be completed on time.
  
• Increase the taxes for large corporations. Maintain the taxes of small and medium businesses.
  
• If you get the option, you may donate to the Alphonso Foundation if you like. It's not required. Just be sure to have at least 4 personal wealth after.
  
• Put that little girl in the boys program, don't take down Soll's portrait, don't privatize education; reform education.
  
• If your budget is now at -9 or lower, reload a previous save. The next turn may immediately trigger a trade war which tanks your investment and your budget.
  
• Invest 1 budget to mechanize existing farms in Gruni.
  
• You do not need Gloria Tory's support if you're on the democratic path and want a 3% threshold, but this precludes you from joining the communist party at the end of your term and from amending Articles 6 and 7. With Gloria Tory, "the reforms are a necessity," "I have no intention of putting Colonel Soll on trial," "try to find some common ground," say the Justice impeachments will benefit the party, and don't give concessions. Then when she gives her final condition, be like Crona and take Monica off the schedule at Benfi.
  
• Play chess with Lucian and purposefully lose if you're going for that achievement on the non-SSP paths. Don't lose in chess otherwise. He will expose your Red Youth funding and the democratic path gets you popular enough without it. Win at chess if you want to investigate Livia and keep Petr.
  
• With Albin Clavin, promise him the VP spot (something else) [Collusion]. You'll never give it to him, but it's the best way to get his support. The other way is to start with a 15% threshold and concede to 10% during an authoritarian path. During the speech don't talk bad about the Old Guards or whoever just talk about democracy or whatever.

Turn V

• Accept United Contana aid and naval base.
  
• Veto the Religious Harmony Bill.
  
• Have fun at Petr's party. Gus won't offer you anything.
  
• When Iosef confronts you on accepting UC aid, say desperate times or Sordish citizens in mind.
  
• Keep immigration relaxed.
  
• At Benfi be apologetic with Monica and don't interrupt her outburst. At the end of it say she's right.
  
• Promise Monica you'll work with her on women's rights.
  
• Do not build Rumburg fortifications. It's just a waste of money.
  
• If Karl is in charge of the SSP, point him at the opposition parties. We'll keep him there for the whole term. For every path with the ACP, start with them pointed at the Old Guards. You will have to switch them to the Oligarchs no matter what after the vote on the reforms.
  
• Tell Iosef to keep an eye on the communists you've accepted into the country. Be very apologetic about how you defunded the military.
  
• With Wehlen, negotiate your way down to half-participation in Operation Bear Trap and accept that trade deal. The Bluds will accept one (1) collaboration in genocide but no more!
  
• With Agnolia, take the trade deal for -1 budget but decline the alliance and the claim over the island. Don't piss off the PM by overpowering his handshake or giving him a dog. Try to get on his good side even (give him a sword and drink vodka).
  
• During the speech in the GNA do not say you will put Soll on trial. Address the opposition responses however you wish.

Turn VI

• Remove conscription and agree with everything Iosef says about it. Try to be lenient about the Wehlen mission.
  
• Cut the ribbon at the ceremony, and drive on the highway.
  
• During the economic meeting, talk about the projects of infrastructure and production.
  
• Invest in the Morna Port.
  
• Tell either Nia to work on Bergian autonomy or Lileas to centralize Bergia depending on your preference. On the authortarian paths you will have to use a decree for autonomy, so it isn't recommended.
  
• Sign the Central Bank Reinforcement Act. We're going to have a debt crisis this term and this is the way out of it.
  
• Do not privatize healthcare; focus on improving rural care.
  
• If you're on the democratic path, be a realist with Mr. Ricter. Promise him proper credit (whatever that means). Feel free to ask him about that time he nearly tried to sell the country to Arcasia, but you don't have to.
  
• If you're on an authoritarian path, be sure to ask about Kesaro's lighter. Don't ban the Red Youth but do promise Kibener a signature on the Unified Education Language Act and be sure to offer him an alliance. We can abrogate it later, but we do need it to make sure he gets us in touch with the last justice necessary to pass the reform through the constitution.
  
• Award the Morna port contract to the SSC.
  
• Use the extra education money to build new rural schools.
  
• Do not sell Gasom shares. They need all the support they can get from the Sordish state.
  
• Ban creationism and mandate evolution.
  
• Spend 4 personal wealth to lobby the assembly.
  
• At Victory Day endorse the NFP statement that Bluds are Sords according to the law. Or...
  
• If you're on the democratic path, you can do the PFJP statement. This puts you on the path to amend Articles 6 and 7. To complete this, you cannot have any Member of Honor change and must sacrifice either the status of the EPA or the autonomous zone project. You must also maximize popularity and, due to your socialism, have the ACP pointed at the Old Guards OR have a law education. You can only do this on the democratic path. You cannot do this on the authoritarian path. If you have Kibener's support, the Bluds will not meet with you. If you do not, your reform will not pass.

Chapter III: Victim of Changes

Turn VII

• Meet with the Bludish if they give you the opportunity. If you're on the democratic path, you may choose to change articles 6 and 7 here.
  
• Listen to Koronti and say you'll think about it.
  
• Tell Lucian all about your call with Koronti and go down the nationalization path.
  
• Fully nationalize Bergia Steel and Heart of Sordland. If you have the SSP, antagonize Mikhail so you can arrest him.
  
• If you're on an authoritarian path, sign the UELA. Otherwise, veto it.
  
• With the SSP, make sure to arrest Tusk and Koronti right after their companies are nationalized.

• On amending Articles 6 and 7, compromise with Gloria (arrest Ejall and centralize Bergia OR reduce EPA) and don't give Ricter more credit. This conversation's tricky!
  
• Get Serge's good luck charm if he gives it. Get Gloria to speed up the vote. If you don't have Gloria's support, shout at people to get them voting.
  
• Pass the assembly vote. If you're on the SSP authoritarian path and the vote isn't 225 ayes and 26 nays, reload a save. You need that margin to convince a justice.
  
• If Mr. Ricter comes, accept the alliance if you want Bergian autonomy.
  
• If Mr. Kibener comes, tell him the alliance must wait, but you would like his help in setting up a meeting with Heron Garaci.

Just to understand the strategy, here is a graphic and an explanation.
The justices circled in purple are the variable justices. They can and have to be convinced and there are a few things to note about their convincing.

1. We need 6 of the 11 votes.
   
2. Justice Isabel Edmonds will always bring herself and her two other centrist votes. Convincing her gets you halfway to your victory.
   
3. Nia Morgna and the reformists will always back a democratic constitution and will never back a dictator constitution. If you're on the democratic path, you only need to convince Edmonds.
   
4. Heron Garaci will bring himself and one other justice when convinced. All ways to convince him are equally beneficial. There is no extra benefit to giving him money or giving him more money. With him convinced, that gets us to 5 votes. We're nearly there.
   
5. Once there are at least 5 Supreme Court votes, outside pressure comes into play. These are: having a deal with the oligarchs, pointing the Anti-Corruption Police at the Old Guard, and/or having a historic victory for our draft proposal in the assembly. Having one of these, we will have our new constitution. However if the Oligarchs are free and upset at you, they will take away the justice vote gained by the historic victory. This is why we need to imprison the Oligarchs in the SSP authoritarian path ASAP or point the ACP at the Old Guard in the beginning of the other paths.

• Send the Rumburg whistleblower back for the popularity boost.
  
• Go to the movie.
  
• At the Day of Descension confess to whatever and DO NOT REVEAL YOUR SHADY DEALINGS PARTNER; grab sceptre with left, kneel, touch sword with right, hand sceptre to archpriest, and pass sword to disciple.
  
• Send Franc to United Contana or the military.
  
• Trust Iosef's assessment, get Valgsland on your side (don't say get rightful place in CSP), and begin negotiations with Valgsland.
  
• Deal with Justice Edmonds like this:
  
• When the waiter comes, you're waiting for someone.
  
• Stand up for a handshake when she arrives
  
• Have Justice Edmonds order before you and then copy her order (salad).
  
• Ask her about the situation in the Supreme Court
  
• Ask her what she thinks about the proposal
  
• Do you not approve of those? (6&7)
  
• "We need a proper balance of power."
  
• I can't do a lot...
  
• You thought she'd agree to that...
  
• Ensure new processes are respected and executed in transparency.
  
• Ask her to help please. No bribing/point getting.
  
• The judiciary shouldn't have legislative powers.
  
• DO NOT TELL HER YOU'RE A MALENYEVIST. You can say you aren't one or you're a democratic socialist or that Malenyev isn't the only communist theoretician, but she will not pass the Leninist's constitution.
  
• Emphasize how this will open the way for further reforms.
  
• Power of judicial review.
  
• Judicial review plays an essential role in limiting powers.
  
• Only a safety mechanism against threats like Old Guard.
  
• No plans to try Soll (lie). Just make him a regular citizen. (MOH)
  
• When she says yes just say thank you.
  
• If Kibener calls, tell him to arrange the meeting with Heron Garaci. Otherwise send Lucian.
  
• Meet with Heron on auth paths AND on articles 6 & 7 amendment path. You need him.
  
• If you meet with Heron, just promise him you'll only impeach Hawker.
  
• Your proposal will now pass with 6-7 votes for it. Give Petr a hug.
  
• At the meeting immediately after the Supreme Court vote, say "First, I want to talk about our new focus and some of my plans forward."
  
• Change the party and talk about another plan.
  
• Impeach the Chief Justice OR reshuffle the court and talk about another plan.
  
• Investigate Tarquin Soll if you can. We must make the reactionary pay for his crimes. This isn't strictly necessary, but it will make the Bluds happy.
  
• If you have an alliance with the NFP now is the time you can break it. Bring it up and ask for concerns. Ciara will object. You can then reconsider it and break it outright or break it with a vote. Keep the alliance if you have the SSP.
  
• Don't promise Lileas Graf to transfer the gendarmerie.
  
• If you changed 6&7, only go after the BFF if you will centralize Bergia.
  
• Don't escalate with Rumburg.
  
• If applicable, tell Karl to shift focus of the ACP on the Oligarchs. You need to do this to prevent capital flight from destroying your economy. Drop the investigation of the Old Guard.
  
• In the speech don't say the future is with the east or west or that you're going to try Soll since some people don't like those.

Turn VIII

• Send Franc off.
  
• Make the USP platform socialist. This won't last without the SSP, but it and other anti-Soll actions should alienate enough conservatives in the USP that you lose at the party congress which we need to secure real communist party rule of Sordland.
  
• Pick the most experienced judge to fill Hawker's seat OR replace the Old Guard Justices.
  
• If you would like to do the Bergia autonomous zone by law, you must've allied the PFJP. If you didn't, it won't pass the GNA after the platform change. Otherwise, decree with this priority: De-Solinisation, Rural Education Institutes, Remove Independence of the Central Bank, and Fair Trade and Competition Commission.

• Sign Lileas' or Nia's docs.
  
• Take the low returns from Gasom if you can.
  
• Sign the BSUM/BALGA if available.
  
• In Valgsland, get the trade deal, the alliance, recognize their claim on the island, and ask for a meeting with Malenyev.
  
• Empty the office and Call Lucian about the affair. With SSP, investigate and kill Livia. Only investigate legally if you won at chess. Arrest and lay it on Rumburg/Ilana in that case.
  
• Agree with the feminists and approve their committee. Pass their proposal as a decree if you can.
  
• Donate however much you can to the League of Women.
  
• Don't transfer the gendarmerie to Lileas Graf.
  
• If Koronti was arrested, you will have a meeting with Karl about him. Just tell Karl to keep a lid on what he's saying.
  
• Start the mass vaccination plan to prevent polio.
  
• Sign the Less Smoke Bill.
  
• Build the medical school.
  
• Attend to support the Aschraf Anniversary, grab the red candle, make a speech about unity and hug Leke. Don't react to provocations.
  
• Listen to Lucian's advice on the election.
  
• Take the agricultural aid from UC.
  
• Don't do further industrial expansion.

Chapter IV: Checkmate

Turn IX

• Take the surplus from the fiscal review.
  
• If you weren't able to pass it as a decree, sign the Women's Liberation Act. Do not worry about the government budget deficit. We will go into a small debt crisis, but the measures we took around the central bank and our other investments will pull us out of it.
  
• Veto the Human Dignity Bill as it will just imprison sex workers.
  
• Sign the Children for Future Act. We're already in a debt crisis we're guaranteed to be pulled out of, so there's no harm.
  
• Sign Mr. Leke's proposal as a decree.
  
• Sign the Fair Luxury Tax Act.
  
• Sign the Alcohol Tax Act.
  
• Fund the Red Youth (unless you lost to Lucian at chess). This and fixing the economy will guarantee you an electoral victory.

• Do not give Rumburg reparations. This guide only supports status quo with Rumburg.
  
• Shoot down Rumburg's plane and hold a military parade. Do not start the Sordish War Machine. This should give you more popularity which you do need. This precludes you from getting Rumburg kicked from OMEC, but you aren't doing a solo war or getting them sanctioned so it doesn't matter.
  
• At the meeting where we invite Malenyev, don't be too enthusiastic but do accept the meeting. Give them a plain welcome.
  
• Agree with Malenyev as much as possible and join the CSP. With the CSP's financial help and everything else we've done around the bank and budget, we will be out of the debt crisis.
  
• Don't introduce false evidence against Soll if you hold his trial.
  
• If you have the SSP, Lucian will give you the option to kill/imprison the new PFJP head and the NFP heads. Either one will completely disable that party for the election. If you have the ACP, go ahead and try Tusk in absentia.
  
• Holl will now congratulate you on fixing the economy. Unfortunately production will be lacking. Don't do anything to get more money since it just hurts your popularity.

• Say whatever you want in the interview. You've already bungled your international reputation by shooting down that plane.

With the reforms you've pulled off, you may see this headline in The Lachaven Times. This is the party you will soon be able to join. If you put the threshold to 8% or below, this party will not form and you will not have the option to join either the CPS or WPB.

• If you don't have the SSP, Lileas will now tell you she is challenging you for the USP ticket. We want her to win it, anyway.
  
• Do whatever you want at the military parade, just don't offend Iosef Lancea.

Turn X

• Attend the football game.
  
• Do whatever you want at the Alliance of Nations except insult the AN.
  
• You're a die hard Malenyevist. Accept Deivid's resignation and then Symon Hall and Gus Manger on all paths and Ciara Walda and Nia Morgna on the authoritarian paths. Symon and Gus because of the communism, Ciara and Nia because of the authoritarianism.
  
• If you lost at chess, Lucian should endorse Lileas. You should lose the party congress regardless. DO NOT RESIGN FROM POLITICS.
  
• It's up to you as to whether you form the People's Party or join the Popular Front on the side of the CPS (continue politics in another party). This choice is only available if you kept the threshold at 10%. "I still believe we can do something together." If you have Serge's good luck charm, you can choose "I will start my own party" then call it the People's Party then "campaign as hard as I can to get elected again," to start your new term with your own communist party. If you don't have Serge's good luck charm, you must choose to join the Popular Front either on the side of WPB or CPS and tell Petr you'll campaign for them. If you win the election for your own party you will be shot by the Oligarchs' gunman and die without the charm blocking the bullet.
  
• Don't promise Monica you'll resign at dinner. We're a shoo-in for the election no matter what thanks to the fixed economy and the Red Youth. If you chose to continue politics in the People's Front, this will be the last event of this turn.

• If you are still running, pick a focus for your next term. I recommend health since you get to say that thing about polio. It probably isn't great to pick a focus you defunded this term.
  
• At the debate, say your party will bring communism to Sordland or bring everyone together and that you're prepared to ally the communist party or that the PFJP is too capitalist (but don't do these things if you're still in the USP). Unveil the Universal Basic Income plan. Let Denis speak. If he throws a fit, just let him. You have no idea about the censorship. Really he shouldn't be complaining.

Turn XI

Say whatever you want at the election speech. This is the end of the game proper anyway. If you're running in your own party, you'll get shot at the end of the speech, but it's OK because you have Serge's good luck charm.

Epilogue

Unless you were shot, voter turnout will be low, but the Red Youth will ensure everything runs smoothly.

If you won the presidency with your own party, congratulations! Do what you like, but this is what I do:

• Congratulate whoever
  
• Cooperate with the opposition for new constitutional changes - Establish a socialist constitution
  
• Work to achieve the dream of Malenyev
  
• Know there is more you can be doing
  
• The real morning (the complete transition to socialism from capitalism on the planet) is on the horizon

If you joined the People's Front, this is what you must do to become their Vice President.

• Congratulate whoever
  
• Keep supporting the party when they do socialism.
  
• Vocally support your wife in the feminist cause.
  
• Accept the position of Interior Minister.
  
• Keep supporting Mansoun once factions form.
  
• Be happy about allying correctly I guess.
  
• Work to achieve the dream of Malenyev

Congratulations on fulfilling Malenyev's dream and McCarthy's nightmare of subverting the democratic process and turning Sordland into a socialist republic! Your final screen should look something like these.
ACP Authoritarian
SSP Authoritarian
Democratic
The Democratic path is one tick to the right for a reason I don't yet understand.

[Crummy Wizard]

@LordSkarn

These are the bits that are easy to trip up on during that path that are different from the others:

1. Vote for Soll at first during the prologue (the one where it's Soll or nobody).
2. Sign the Campaign Finance Bill on Turn 1.
3. Don't give Serge any money during the car ride.
4. On the constitution, limit vetoes, 2 term limit, and assembly may impeach the justices. The constitution has to be as democratic as possible while still giving you enhanced decree power.

[LordSkarn]

"Pass the assembly vote. If you're on the SSP authoritarian path and the vote isn't 225 ayes and 26 nays, reload a save. You need that margin to convince a justice."

I do not seem to get this to work for me, any idea what I might have missed, I think I have followed your guide closely. Only thing I can think of is Nia getting angry for pursuing more power.

[Crummy Wizard]

@Bubba-Duece - It feels like H3 gives slightly more popularity which is necessary for the assembly vote on the constitutional reform. Also this guide has no synergies with L1 since there isn't enough money for the electronics investment.

@Red Hot Moon - Which path were you on?All of these paths are tricky to pull off even with a guide because of the strange dialogue and other choices you have to make and remember to make. It might be:

Not switching ACP Karl's focus from the Old Guard to the Oligarchs after the constitutional reform meeting.
Not keeping Petr during the Livia affair.
Picking the wrong options on the constitutional draft.
Vetoing the first campaign finance bill on the Authoritarian SSP path.
Saying the wrong thing at the Bludish anniversary and antagonizing them on an authoritarian path.

These are just a few things that may be the issue. If it's not anything on your end, please let me know! I do not want the guide to mislead people!

[Red Hot Moon]

did this to a T and ended with a new achievement.

that being the master of crisis

[Bubba_Duece]

Wait, the H3? Is that now the better option in 3.1, or is it for RP reasons?

[Bubba_Duece]

i've been waiting for ts since 3.1 came out.

[Crummy Wizard]

For folks who are subscribed to this thread, you should be pleased to know that the contents of this guide have been updated to 3.1.0. There are a few screenshots I'm now missing, but otherwise the guide is 100% up to date.

[Crummy Wizard]

@Crapulence Solo war requires:

Increasing funding to the military
Getting Rumburg kicked out of OMEC
Getting Rumburg sanctioned by ATO and CSP
Creating the military industrial complex or accepting one for free from ATO
Going with Valken's reform plan
Keeping conscription
Expanding the Air Force

Most of the political moves in this guide should work in concert with these steps, but the economic moves will be vastly different. Good luck!

[naomi]

Extremely solid work, ty + looking forward to updates!

[Crapulence]

Any tips for modifying the authoritatian path into a solo-rumberg war scinareo?