The communist branch in total gets: -50% subversive activities, 25% total stability, 1% recruitable pop on top of moving to extensive conscription for free (Meaning after two focuses you have 6% recruitable pop total), 100 political power, 5% efficiency cap and growth,+5% monthly population, +5% research speed, +15% construction speed, +10% max factories in a state, and then get a free annex goal on a neighbor and possibly something else unless "solidify our influence" is just unfinished, or is not working for me at the moment. Meanwhile we have the middle of the road power wise in the fascist tree. Which does at least have the two free annex goals at the end, but aside from those it only nets you +.50% weekly stability, two free economic policies (That don't seem to bypass if you just use the political power to change to them instead which means you could change your policy and then waste 70 days waiting to be able to do the next focus), +.5 encryption and +.75 decryption which I honestly forgot even existed anymore, +1 operative slot, +1 counter intelligence, -3% training time and 2% recruitable pop. Finally the democratic branch further splits only getting six focuses total once you make your choice. Out of the three choices the only one that has no downsides just so happens to make your country communist over time anyway. There really isn't anything to redeem the Democratic path as far as I can see here honestly definitely nothing that can make up for the loss of 4 total focuses and further 2 more doing nothing other then confirming your branch. Meaning that on the democratic path there are a total of 4 focuses that actually give you any bonuses whatsoever, and two of said branches actually give you a debuff while doing so. I get that these focuses are generic and will be replaced eventually by ones that are tailored to the location if not made unique later on, but this just kinda seems lopsided right now I hope that things will be balanced out a bit better because as it is the communist branch is extremely OP, the fascist is a bit under powered, and the democratic branch is laughably bad.