New powers, fresh laws, and the occasional crisis.

Promise a nuclear plant. Let the country pay.

Major Projects are live. Before an election, an established party can commit to a huge national build, from schools and hospitals to high-speed rail and rearmament, for a flat 50 PP, and win votes from everyone who wants that spending. If it wins, the country pays automatically, nobody can stop it, and only the sponsor disbanding or an IMF programme ends it. Here's the decision it creates, and why we built it to be this tempting.

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Infrastructure.

Your budget now builds things that last. Ten kinds of national infrastructure, from military readiness to flood defences, grow with a fixed share of the matching budget line and wear out over a set lifespan. Cut a line and you save money now while the asset decays, slowly; fund it and it holds. Countries start from the level their current budget would sustain, so under-funded ones begin run down. For now it's display-only: no effect on voters or growth yet.

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Run-offs, Endorsements and Upcoming Elections.

Office elections now run on a real per-office ballot: supporters of parties with no candidate re-split their votes by their own opinions, which changes results for every office, first past the post included. Countries can adopt two rounds, where nobody over 50% sends the top two or three to a run-off about a real hour later. Parties can endorse instead of standing, free, and everything locks until the result. Make the choices on the new Upcoming Elections page.

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Treaty Embargoes.

A treaty can now name a country and cut it off. Every member embargoes the target, the target loses GDP, and so do the members: a little if the target is small, a lot if it's big. Check the Economic impact line before you sign, and watch the bill arrive on your Economy page.

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International Treaties.

International Treaties are live. A country founds a treaty from up to twenty treaty articles, open to anyone whose laws qualify or by invitation only, and every law the treaty locks is off limits to its members' parties until they leave. One office decides for each country, leaving is free, and a Supreme Court order that breaks a treaty ends the membership on the spot. Find it under International → International Treaties.

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The anger doesn't disappear when the vote does.

A new Suffrage clause lets a country restrict who can vote, by gender, age, work, income, education or housing, and it is priced to match: an autocracy charge with no cap, a grudge that doesn't fade while its victims can't vote, and a Suffrage Crisis if enough people lose the vote at once. This is the design notebook for why it's built that way, and the loopholes we had to close.

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A year to rewrite the rules.

Constitutions change slowly by design: one package at a time and a cooldown after every success. Now the head of government can call a Constitutional Convention for 75 PP (a monarch can call one for free). For a year the cooldown is suspended and no package costs more than 75 PP, however much it changes. The supermajority stays exactly where it was. Every new country starts with a founding convention.

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Some laws go on your permanent record.

Autocracy used to be something you earned by banning a rival or arresting a politician. Now a hand-picked set of laws stains every party that votes them through — the proposer in full, other yes-voters at half — with a notice on the proposal page before the vote is cast. Laws that are merely harsh, the death penalty included, deliberately score nothing. Fifteen new laws land in the same update, taking the catalogue from 95 to 110.

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Your voters came from somewhere. Now their names say where.

Elector names now come from nine language groups instead of four. Nordic, East Slavic, West Slavic, Balkan Slavic and Arab join the list, each carrying 150–195 names per gender across the full 18-to-90 range — weighted so the common names stay common, and capped so no country ever gets a third Maria. Activists and journalists get surnames that agree with them, too. Pick your group under Language when you propose a country.

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The court is now in session. Bring arguments, not opinions.

The Supreme Court has arrived. Any party can appeal against an unconstitutional law, a lawless minister, a rogue president, or an amendment that can't stand — and if the court agrees, the remedy happens automatically. The bench is anonymous, the votes are secret until the ruling, and a tie goes to the status quo. Find it under Justice → Supreme Court.

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The world faces one dilemma. Every country decides on its own.

Global Decisions is live: world-wide dilemma events hit every country at once, no warning given. Each country's parties vote Yes or No — one party, one vote, cast by the leader, with a public reason locked the moment it's submitted. Twelve days later every country resolves on its own, and the world's answers can split however the politics falls out.

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One growth number is gone. Twelve industries do the work now.

A country's GDP growth used to be a single dial. Now it's the blended result of twelve industries — Technology, Oil & Gas, Financial Services and nine more — each moving with the world economy. Pick an economic focus at founding, from Petrostate to Technology Powerhouse, and watch that specialism compound.

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Executive power is live. So is the price of using it.

Your constitution's 18 executive powers just started doing something. Ban, arrest, and pardon are live today, with fifteen more on the way. Use them and your party earns autocracy — a new reputation that fades over time but costs you votes for as long as it lasts. Find it under Characters → Executive Actions on your country page.

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Meet the press. Meet the public.

The social feed just got two upgrades. Every country now fields a press corps of up to four journalists — broadsheet, tabloid, gossip, and a numbers -literate wonk — each covering the news in their own voice. And ordinary electors have started showing up in the same feed, posting honest reactions and the occasional genuine change of heart.

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Make the promise. Then live with it.

Voter Demands & Pledges is live in the alpha. The voters name your worst fiscal weakness and dare you to fix it — pledge for free, ride the People's Pledge boost through the next election, then discover two elections later that the promise you made alone can only be delivered together. Fail in power, and Broken Promises lands before the votes are even counted.

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The IMF will see you now.

Runaway deficits finally have a circuit-breaker. When a nation's debt hits 200% of GDP, the IMF takes the budget out of your hands — 50% taxes, spending slashed, a year-long recession, and a "Destroyed Economy" brand for every party that voted for the slide. There is one carrot. It's 5%.

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Fifty-eight new ways to start a fight.

The law catalogue has more than doubled — from 37 laws to 95, with 445 positions across 21 categories. Guns, nuclear power, AI, asylum, blasphemy, organ donation — plus a new Laws Explorer to see how every country in the world has settled each fight. Your legislature will never run out of arguments again.

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