Dev Dispatch · The development blog

New powers, fresh laws, and the occasional crisis.

Feature launches and design notes from the team building Lawmaker — what just shipped into the living world, and why we built it that way.

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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