New Latvia/Gameplay

New Latvia has five different possible paths - Liberal Conservatism, Social Democracy, Stalinism, Military Junta and Ultranationalism.

## Paths

### Liberal Conservatism

Liberal Conservatism is represented in New Latvia by the Latvian People's and Democracy Movement, ruled by Jānis Liepa and Kārlis Gustavs Mūrnieks. It is the easiest path to begin, though completing it is not the easiest thing to do.

How to do the Conservative Democracy path:

1. Play the New Baltic Union and complete the focus tree.
2. Wait for the collapse of New Africa and the event "Baltic Protests" to happen. Choose the option called "Ignore them, it will die down eventually."
3. Complete the "Baltic Resistance" event chain, each time choosing the option to ignore the increasing tensions and continue doing nothing.
4. Go through the three events dedicated to each of the Baltic states gaining independence, choose "Remain with the NBU" for the New Estonian and New Lithuanian events, choose "For Latvia our brothers!" for the New Latvian event, switching to New Latvia.
5. Begin the New Latvia focus tree. The main objective is as quickly as possibly getting to the third focus "Recruit The Militias", which will give you multiple militia units with which to drive New African units out of your country by the end of 2163, after which, if successful, the event "New African Withdrawl" will fire and trigger an automatic white peace.
6. Continue doing the New Latvian focus tree. Your main priorities should be rushing down the Political, Economic and Linguistic reform paths, which will improve the country and give you enough party popularity to win the 2164 Latvian General Elections. (Choose the "For a free and fair Latvia!" option for the election event.)
7. Continue doing the reforms, now focusing on finishing the Economic reform path and beginning the Military reform path.
8. Wait for the "A Unexpected Assasination" event to happen. Choose the "Defend the legitimate government!" option, which will make the following coup against the prime minister end in failure, allowing you to now continue the Conservative Democracy path under Kārlis Gustavs Mūrnieks.
9. Finish all remaining reform paths and (optional) do the "Baltic Unity" path, which will end with New Latvia peacefully uniting with New Estonia and New Lithuania to form the Free New Baltic Union.
10. That is it, you have finished the Conservative Democracy path! (If you wait until 2168, it is possible to have the 2168 Latvian General Elections, though this is optional and most people will have finished all that is possible by 2166.)

### Social Democracy

Social Democracy is represented in New Latvia by the Latvian Social Democratic Party, ruled by Māris Kristaps. It is not too hard to begin this path and finish it isn't too hard either.

How to do the Social Democracy path:

1. Play the New Baltic Union and complete the focus tree.
2. Wait for the collapse of New Africa and the event "Baltic Protests" to happen. Choose the option called "Ignore them, it will die down eventually."
3. Complete the "Baltic Resistance" event chain, each time choosing the option to ignore the increasing tensions and continue doing nothing.
4. Go through the three events dedicated to each of the Baltic states gaining independence, choose "Remain with the NBU" for the New Estonian and New Lithuanian events, choose "For Latvia our brothers!" for the New Latvian event, switching to New Latvia.
5. Begin the New Latvia focus tree. The main objective is as quickly as possibly getting to the third focus "Recruit The Militias", which will give you multiple militia units with which to drive New African units out of your country by the end of 2163, after which, if successful, the event "New African Withdrawl" will fire and trigger an automatic white peace.
6. Continue doing the New Latvian focus tree. The main objective is to only do the few starting focuses of the Political, Economic and Linguistic reforms, which will slightly improve the country and party popularity, though not enough to secure a safe victory in the 2164 Latvian General Elections. (Choose the "A More Social Future For Latvia!" for the election event.)
7. Begin the New Latvian Social Democracy path, choosing the "A Path In The Middle" path, which will lead down to seperate Economic, Political and Linguistic branches, slightly reversing the changes made by the Conservative Democracy path and then making new, leftist changes.
8. After finishing the Economic, Political and Linguistic branches of the main focus tree path, continue improving the Economy with the Economic improvement path and also begin the Military reform path.
9. After finishing all of these paths, you also have the option to go down a special Diplomatic path, which will at the end allow you to peacefully unite with New Estonia and New Lithuania to form the Free New Baltic Union.
10. That is it, you have finished the Social Democracy path! (If you wait until 2168, it is possible to have the 2168 Latvian General Elections, though this is optional and most people will have finished all that is possible by 2166 or 2167.)

### Stalinism

Stalinism is represented in game by the Latvian Socialist Workers' Party, ruled by Valdimirs Lapiņš. It is not as easy to get as other paths and will require a bit more work to finish as well, though it is very much possible.

How to do the Communism path:

1. Play the New Baltic Union and complete the focus tree.
2. Wait for the collapse of New Africa and the event "Baltic Protests" to happen. Choose the option called "Ignore them, it will die down eventually."
3. Complete the "Baltic Resistance" event chain, each time choosing the option to ignore the increasing tensions and continue doing nothing.
4. Go through the three events dedicated to each of the Baltic states gaining independence, choose "Remain with the NBU" for the New Estonian and New Lithuanian events, choose "For Latvia our brothers!" for the New Latvian event, switching to New Latvia.
5. Begin the New Latvia focus tree. The main objective is as quickly as possibly getting to the third focus "Recruit The Militias", which will give you multiple militia units with which to drive New African units out of your country by the end of 2163, after which, if successful, the event "New African Withdrawl" will fire and trigger an automatic white peace.
6. Continue doing the New Latvian focus tree. The main objective is to only do the few starting focuses of the Political, Economic and Linguistic reforms, which will slightly improve the country and party popularity, though not enough to secure a safe victory in the 2164 Latvian General Elections. (Choose the "A More Social Future For Latvia!" for the election event.)
7. Begin the New Latvian Social Democracy path, choosing the "The Less Extreme Option" path, which will lead down to seperate Economic, Political and Linguistic branches, very slightly reversing the changes made by the Conservative Democracy path and then making small changes in the direction of leftism, while mostly keeping capitalism intact. (Which will lead to party popularity slowly dropping due to these decisions being unpopular.)
8. As you begin nearing the end of the focus tree, you will gain more and more events regarding protests against the political changes. Everytime one of these events pops up, choose the option to ignore the protests and continue down your political path. (Listening to the protests will simply make you switch to a similar level focus on the "A Path In The Middle" path.)
9. Wait until you receive the event "The New Riga Putsch". Choose either the "Long live Social Democracy!" or "For the workers Internationale!" options, as both will lead to the Communists being put incharge. (If you choose the first option, it will require going through another event chain with two events.)
10. Begin the New Latvian Communism path, going down the Political and Economic ("The Five Year Plan") reform branches, slowly becoming more authoritarian and creating a centralised economy.
11. Once the Political and Economic reform branches are finished, begin the Military reform and Diplomatic paths, improving the military and gaining war goals against everyone on Usuin.
12. Use your war goals on New Lithuania and New Estonia to invade and unify the Baltic countries, forming the Baltic Soviet Socialist Republics.
13. That is it, you have finished the Communism path!

### Military Junta

Military Junta is represented in New Latvia by the generals Roberts Sēne, Rainis Strazdiņš and Oto Vāle. Beginning the path isn't too hard and finishing it isn't either.

How to do the Despotism path:

1. Play the New Baltic Union and complete the focus tree.
2. Wait for the collapse of New Africa and the event "Baltic Protests" to happen. Choose the option called "Ignore them, it will die down eventually."
3. Complete the "Baltic Resistance" event chain, each time choosing the option to ignore the increasing tensions and continue doing nothing.
4. Go through the three events dedicated to each of the Baltic states gaining independence, choose "Remain with the NBU" for the New Estonian and New Lithuanian events, choose "For Latvia our brothers!" for the New Latvian event, switching to New Latvia.
5. Begin the New Latvia focus tree. The main objective is as quickly as possibly getting to the third focus "Recruit The Militias", which will give you multiple militia units with which to drive New African units out of your country by the end of 2163, after which, if successful, the event "New African Withdrawl" will fire and trigger an automatic white peace.
6. Continue doing the New Latvian focus tree. Your main priorities should be rushing down the Political, Economic and Linguistic reform paths, which will improve the country and give you enough party popularity to win the 2164 Latvian General Elections. (Choose the "For a free and fair Latvia!" option for the election event.)
7. Continue doing the reforms, now focusing on finishing the Economic reform path and beginning the Military reform path.
8. Wait for the "A Unexpected Assasination" event to happen. Choose the "For a new Latvia free from the tyrants!" option, which will make the following coup against the prime minister end in success, allowing you to now begin the Despotism path. (You are able to make a decision in the focus tree on which of the three leaders comes to power, though it is purely cosmetic and the focus tree doesn't change at all.)
9. Begin the New Latvian Despotism path, going down the Political, Economic and Military reform branches, making your economy more focused on the military and improving the state of the military.
10. Continue the New Latvian focus tree with the Military path, which grows and improves the military even more, while also going down the Diplomatic path and either uniting the Baltic states peacefully or by gaining war goals on them, which you can later use to invade them, either way forming the United Baltic States.
11. That is it, you have finished the Military Junta path!

### Ultranationalism

Ultranationalism is represented in New Latvia by the Latvian Restorationist Party, ruled by Kārlis Priede. There are two ways to begin the Ultranationalist path, though both have the same ending.

	1. Play the New Baltic Union and complete the focus tree.
	2. Wait for the collapse of New Africa and the event "Baltic Protests" to happen. Choose the option called "Ignore them, it will die down eventually."
	3. Complete the "Baltic Resistance" event chain, each time choosing the option to ignore the increasing tensions and continue doing nothing.
	4. Go through the three events dedicated to each of the Baltic states gaining independence, choose "Remain with the NBU" for the New Estonian and New Lithuanian events, choose "For Latvia our brothers!" for the New Latvian event, switching to New Latvia.
	5. Begin the New Latvia focus tree. The main objective is as quickly as possibly getting to the third focus "Recruit The Militias", which will give you multiple militia units with which to drive New African units out of your country by the end of 2163, after which, if successful, the event "New African Withdrawl" will fire and trigger an automatic white peace.
	6. Continue doing the New Latvian focus tree. Your main priorities should be rushing down the Political, Economic and Linguistic reform paths, which will improve the country and give you enough party popularity to win the 2164 Latvian General Elections. (Choose the "For a free and fair Latvia!" option for the election event.)
	7. Continue doing the reforms, now focusing on finishing the Economic reform path and beginning the Military reform path.
	8. Wait for the "A Unexpected Assasination" event to happen. Choose the "For a new Latvia free from the tyrants!" option, which will make the following coup against the prime minister end in success, allowing you to now begin the Despotism path. (You are able to make a decision in the focus tree on which of the three leaders comes to power, though it is purely cosmetic and the focus tree doesn't change at all.)
	9. Begin the New Latvian Despotism path, going down half way through the Political, Economic and Military reform branches, leaving the military slightly more improved and the economy in the middle of a transition between civilian and military.
	10. Wait for around three months without doing any other focuses, slowly losing party popularity. Once party popularity has dropped below 30%, you will receive an event called "The Rising Star", which will be then followed by another event called "A Strike At The Military", which will allow you to play the Ultranationalism path.
2. The Second Way:
	1. Play the New Baltic Union and complete the focus tree.
	2. Wait for the collapse of New Africa and the event "Baltic Protests" to happen. Choose the option called "Ignore them, it will die down eventually."
	3. Complete the "Baltic Resistance" event chain, each time choosing the option to ignore the increasing tensions and continue doing nothing.
	4. Go through the three events dedicated to each of the Baltic states gaining independence, choose "Remain with the NBU" for the New Estonian and New Lithuanian events, choose "For Latvia our brothers!" for the New Latvian event, switching to New Latvia.
	5. Begin the New Latvia focus tree. The main objective is as quickly as possibly getting to the third focus "Recruit The Militias", which will give you multiple militia units with which to drive New African units out of your country by the end of 2163, after which, if successful, the event "New African Withdrawl" will fire and trigger an automatic white peace.
	6. Continue doing the New Latvian focus tree. The main objective is to only do the few starting focuses of the Political, Economic and Linguistic reforms, which will slightly improve the country and party popularity, though not enough to secure a safe victory in the 2164 Latvian General Elections. (Choose the "A More Social Future For Latvia!" for the election event.)
	7. Begin the New Latvian Social Democracy path, choosing the "The Less Extreme Option" path, which will lead down to seperate Economic, Political and Linguistic branches, very slightly reversing the changes made by the Conservative Democracy path and then making small changes in the direction of leftism, while mostly keeping capitalism intact. (Which will lead to party popularity slowly dropping due to these decisions being unpopular.)
	8. As you begin nearing the end of the focus tree, you will gain more and more events regarding protests against the political changes. Everytime one of these events pops up, choose the option to ignore the protests and continue down your political path. (Listening to the protests will simply make you switch to a similar level focus on the "A Path In The Middle" path.)
	9. Wait until you receive the event "The New Riga Putsch". Choose the "For a new and better Latvia!" option, putting the military incharge. Wait for another event called "Kārlis Priede Makes An Impression" to fire, which will allow you to do the Ultranationalism path.

How to continue the Ultranationalism path:

1. Do the New Latvian Ultranationalism focus tree, quickly rushing down to the focus "Unify The Baltic Race" which allows you to invade the other two Baltic states, forming the Baltic National Republic.
2. Finish the rest of the New Latvian Ultranationalism focus tree, "cleansing and purifying" the region of the Baltic states from the "Satan Spawn" and rebuilding the old architecture (infrastructure and economy), while also preparing to invade the rest of the world.
3. Do the final focus "Let The Flames Burn Bright" of the Ultranationalism tree, which will give you war goals on all countries in Usuin, allowing you to invade them and then "cleanse" them through decisions.
4. Continue the New Latvian Ultranationalism focus tree, focusing on the focuses which give you droid divisions (which require far less manpower than regular divisions) and reform the economy to be focused on the construction of these droids (which gives multiple buffs and cost reductions to the divisions).
5. Finish the final focus "Exporting Our Purification", which gives you a war goal on New Africa. Invade New Africa and then do the decisions to purify regions of it.
6. Continue the New Latvian Ultranationalism tree, rushing down to the focus "Begin The Final Crusade", which gives you war goals on all remaining countries in the world, allowing you to invade and then purify them through decisions.
7. After conquering and purifying the world, continue the New Latvian Ultranationalism tree, rushing down the Economical and Political branches, which greatly improve your Economy and "cleanse the world of the "Satan Spawn"". Once done with that, go on to do the main "Cleansing" branch, which allows you to remove all "Satan Spawn" from the world.
8. Wait for the event "A Gold Covered Sword" event to fire, which will open up a new focus tree called "The Voices In The Room" and give you multiple decisions to do in the decisions tab. These decisions and focuses cannot be done too fast, as each of them increases the "Insanity factor" of Kārlis Priede by +5 (if it goes over 50, you will receive an event called "The Final Hours", after which Kārlis Priede will die and your country will collapse into many splintered Baltic warlord successor states).
9. Once you have completed the final focus "Purifying It All" without having collapsed, you will be given a final set of decisions in the decisions tab, allowing you to kill every remaining person on Earthia.
10. After having completed all purification decisions, you will be able to go through the "Final Days" event chain, which will depict Kārlis Priede becoming insane and depressed, with the final event "The Shinning Sun" depicting his suicide, after which your country will collapse into nothing.
11. That is it, you have finished the Ultranationalism path!

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5  There is only one path in the focus tree, known as "Hope For A Better Future".
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5  There is only one path in the focus tree for pre-New African Withdrawl Latvia, called "Securing Our Freedom". A new, more detailed focus tree appears following the New African Withdrawl.
3. ↑ This is already able to be seen at the start as a Social Democracy, though it is locked until "The New Riga Putsch". It is called "The Red Sickle And Hammer".
4. ↑ At the start, there is only one focus tree path for Ultranationalism, called "The Pure Baltic People", with a new focus tree becoming available following the conquest of Usuin, and then two more.
5. ↑ Following the invasion of New Africa, you will gain a new focus tree, called "The Final Crusade".
6. ↑ Once this is done, a new focus tree will open up, called "Building The New World".