Guides

## Beginners Guide

The main game resources/stats are:

* **Donors**; Each donor level gives you 500 of Campaign funds
* **Influence**; You earn influence each hour, the base level is 2 of influence, you gain more depending on the position you occupy in the government or if you are in a Parliamentary Commission or a MP (Elected Politician)
* **Popularity**: How popular are you in your state, the more popular, the more votes you will get!
* **Party Marketing**: How popular is your party in your region, the higher the marketing, the more votes you will get.
* **Capital**: Your hard cash, your wallet, this is used for buying currencies, creating corps, buying shares, etc
* **Campaign Funds**: Used to campaign in the game, it's used by several actions you can perform.

1) Join a party! You will have MUCH MORE possibilities of success if you are part of a party due to the game mechanics!

2) Increase your donors all you can! They will be a big income to your economy at first, so you don't depend on your party all the time!

3) Invest your money! Sitting money is no good D:

4) Increase Party Marketing in your region when you can! It is very important for the elections result ;)

5) Join the elections in your state!

## Parties and Elections

1) Parties (Not players) get money after the elections depending on their results and on which kind of voters they have, for instance a party which attracts a lot of wealthy voters will get more money than one that attracts lower classes, but keep in mind this only happens AFTER elections.

2) You can create party roles in your party to delegate functions, as the current moment the only functions they can have is treasurer (Can accept and deny money requests) and campaign manager (Can invest in marketing without spending influence), this will be expanded in the future with certain new positions. You can create as many custom positions as you want.

3) The elements that affect the election results are:

* Difference of ideological positions from voters in the Economic Axis
* Difference of ideological positions from voters in the Liberties Axis
* Party Marketing
* Popularity

You can influence all of these with actions or spending money.

## Parliament

In parliament you can see the bills being voted, or that have been recently voted, you can present your own bills, or see which are the current laws in effect. You can also see the list of commissions created!

**Proposing a bill:**

You can propose several kinds of bills, which are:

* Appoint President: Choose the next president of your country
* Appoint President of the Parliament: Choose the President of the Parliament
* Custom Bill: Create a custom bill that has no effect
* Regular Bill: Create a bill altering a law, which will have effects on the country.
* Tax Bill: Create a bill for increasing or decreasing taxes in your country.
* Spending Bill: Create a bill for increasing or decreasing public spending in your country
* Start Impeachment: Impeach your president! He is a traitor and should never be in office again!
* Propose Comission: Propose a parliamentary commission to investigate anything the parliament deems necessary
* Appoint the Constitutional Court: Appoint a member of the constitutional court

## Constitutional Court

You can appoint 5 members of the constitutional court, who will supervise the laws proposed and repel those deemed "anti-constitutional", this will be based on the constitution proposed by the politicians/players of the specific country.

In order to change the constitutional composition you must propose a bill appointing the new members; For instance, if the CC (Constitutional Court) has 5/5 members, and you want to change only one of the members, you must propose either 4/5 members, excluding the old CC member you want to remove, or propose 5/5 members changing the old CC member for a new one.

Example: CC is composed by politicians A,B,C,D,E. We want to remove politician A, so we can propose again in a bill members B,C,D,E so the CC, will have 4/5 members, or we can propose players B,C,D,E and player F, and you will end with 5/5 of the CC members.

## Political Positions

Members of the Constitutional Court or members of a parliamentary commission can be appointed to the Executive/Cabinet too.

Positions in the government give extra influence each hour as described next:

* President / Head of State: +4 (not included yet)
* PM: +4
* Minister: +2
* PoP: +4
* Parliamentary Comission: +1
* Member of the Parliament: Seats \* 0.1

## Currency Market

In McPolitics you can invest in currency, but so does the central bank of that country's currency!

You can buy currency from the global market and sell it for a profit, or fall in losses if the central bank of that currency devaluates it too much!

Central banks can "Print Money" and Buy and Sell currency to stabilise it's price. So be careful when investing!

You can buy minimum 50.000 in currency and a maximum of 400.000

## Basic Corporations Guide

##### Corporation Basics:

* **Prestige**: Is the average of your bran+marketing+market share. It's used to determine the effect of your actions.
* **Brand**: Value from 0-100 which increases hourly based on the brand budget
* **Marketing**: Value which increases hourly based on the marketing budget
* **Max Production**: Max amount your corporation can produce

1) How to create a corporation:

1. Go to your country's menu and select corporation list
2. Click on create corporation, it costs 250K $

2) How to expand your corporation

1. Go to the sectors tab of your country's menu
2. Select your sector, as the sector you have specialised your corp in.
3. Click on "Expand Production"

* You can also steal market share from other players, but this won't increase the national production, you will just steal a part of the other corp production.

3) How to produce with your corporation

1. Go to your corporation
2. Click on the "Admin Panel"
3. In the "Set Up" input what % you want to produce from your max production, so introduce a value from 0-100.

4) How to issue shares of your corporation

1. Go to your corporation
2. Go to the "Admin Panel"
3. In the "Issue shares" input introduce a value from 1-10.000, you will then issue the number of shares you wanted.

##### Nationalization and Privatization of Corporations

* Nationalization: You must pass a law in parliament targeting a corporation, once this bill is passed the corp will be nationalised and the Minister of Economy will be able to appoint a CEO to it. ***¡ Only people without corp can be appointed!***
* Privatization: You must pass a law in parliament targeting a public/nationalized corporation to privatize it, the actual CEO of the corporation will become the CEO of the corp once it's privatized.

##### Bailing Out a Corporation

You must approve a law in parliament, so you can bail out a corporation with 50 Million $, which will be injected into the target corporation. This Bail Out will be added to the country's budget expenses.

## Advanced Corporations Guide

* **Money:** The amount of money your corporation has at the moment
* **Sector:** The sector of your corporation
* **Prestige:** The average of Brand, Marketing and Market Share of your corporation
* **Brand:** The brand level of your corporation; used for corporation actions. Updated hourly. *IF YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY IN YOUR CORPORATION YOU WON'T EARN BRAND*
* **Marketing:** The marketing level of your corparation; used for corporation actions. Updated hourly. *IF YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY IN YOUR CORPORATION YOU WON'T EARN MARKETING*
* **Workers:** The amount of workers your corporation has
* **Max Production:** The maximum amount of units your corporation can produce per day
* **Marketing Budget:** The money you spend in your marketing
* **Brand Budget:** The money you spend in your branding
* **Producing:** Value from 0-100, determines how much you produce of your max production.
* **Dividends:** How much money you will give as dividends, this amount will be divided per number of shares
* **Workers Wage:** The wage you pay to your workers,
* **Efficiency**: Depending on your worker's wages you will have more or less efficiency, which multiplies your production as corporation or diminishes it.

#### Expenses:

* **Marketing Budget**: The amount of money you invest into increasing your Marketing. It is taken away from your Money each hour.
* **Brand Budget**: The amount of money you invest in increasing your Brand. It is taken away from your Money each hour.
* **Corporation Tax**: Total amount of taxes paid to the state
* **Dividends**: Cost of dividend payout for your corporation (This amount will be divided between your number of shares)
* **Others**: Workers wages and other stuff
* **Total**: Total amount of expenses

#### Income:

* **Sold Products**: The amount of money you earn from sold products in your country, depends on your set production and the price of the product in your country
* **Total**: Sum of previous parts

#### Mechanics explanations;

You sell your products once per day, and pay your workers once per day BUT you pay your marketing and brand budget each HOUR.

## Military Corporations Guide

* **Specialization:** This determines if you are producing regular products for the consumers or *"Military Tokens"* to fulfill public contracts; if activated you produce *"Military Tokens"*, if deactivated you sell your products to the regular market
* **Public Offers:** Once you joined a public contract for military equipment, and the MoD (Ministry of Defense) picks your offer, it will be shown under the "Manage Contracts" tab
* **Fulfilling Public Offers:** When you have the necessary *"Military Tokens"* to fulfill the public offer (What the MoD is asking); the military equipment will be delivered to the country and you will receive the money from the contract
* **Creating New Military Designs:** In order to create a new design you will have to buy *"R&D Tokens" (See below on Tech Corporations Guide)* in order to be able to create a new design for production, the better the design is (The more *"power"* it has), it will cost more *"R&D Tokens"!* Designs cost Miliitary Tokens too!

## Tech Corporations Guide

* **Specialization:** This determines if you are producing regular products for the consumers or *"R&D Tokens"* to fulfill contracts with the Military Sector; if activated you produce tokens, if deactivated you sell your products to the regular market
* **Market Offers:** You can fulfill requests made for *"R&D Tokens"*, or put up an offer of *"R&D Tokens"* yourself; once an offer is accepted or a demand fulfilled, you instantly get the money.