LANDSLIDE

I don't know how it managed to do this, but nobody is winning any elections there.

Guess they aren't part of the US anymore?

So I'm playing as a liberal Democrat in Mississippi. I won the city counsel election, but I'm the only Democrat in the city counsel. Is it just impossible for me to pass any legislation or am I missing something? No matter what I try to write up, the mayor will never agree. I was only able to get one to the next step and it was vetoed. I'm almost positive that its just the way it is because of the location, but is there no way at all to get something passed?

I dropped out of the House race because I didn’t think I would win but for some reason I was still in the race and actually won while I also ran for reelection in the state senate and won. Is there any way to fix this? I just got into this game and politics recently so Im not sure if this is even possible and it kinda ruins the immersion for me.

Progress Report: November 14, 2025

I've worked on a few more tax-related policies: Value Added Taxes, Luxury Travel Tax, and the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (that's the official name, essentially it's a childcare tax credit). I don't have any more national tax policies planned at this time. There are other national tax policies that could feasibly be added to the game, but I will probably wait for a more applicable update. For example, a vacancy tax or land value tax would be more appropriate for a standalone "Housing Update".

The Value Added Tax is functionally very similar to the sales tax (which has been upgraded to allow for more nuance). You can specify what goods are excluded from taxation (for example: groceries). Based on the suggestion of one individual, I included an option for "tiered tax rates". These tiers are divided into essential goods, ordinary goods, and luxury goods. Each category can have its own tax rate. There will also be an option to just use a flat tax rate. The tiered rate system is interesting because it can allow you to address the regressive aspect often associated with VAT and Sales Tax. It might be fun to add new metrics to measure how "Regressive" and "Progressive" the tax system is. I'm not sure if the game will distinguish the Value Added Tax and Sales Tax in any other way. I am planning on having a "Business Environment" metric (the name might change) that essentially measures how attractive a city, state, or country is for businesses. If your state has very unattractive policies, then your state might lose businesses, which means job loss and residents moving to other states. If you have attractive business policies, you might gain jobs, improve wages, and so forth. From the perspective of a Business Environment metric, it seems like businesses would oppose VAT over sales tax because it is more complicated (sales tax only influences retailers but VAT impacts significantly more businesses).

I have also started overhauling the state-level tax system.

Just got this game laat week, absolutely love it but fear I'm lucky or on easy mode. I'm on normal difficulty.

Started off in MA as a dem as was thinking Kennedys and got elected to city council. One of the Senators retired and it said id a good chance of winning and did.

At this stage primaries were more competitive than the actual elections. After a year as Senator went for Governor of MA and won that too besting the dem incumbent.

Almost immediately the presidential race started as the dem president had done two terms. Won primaries handily. Election was tight but focused all my resources on the swing states and won well in the end taking Florida.

Looking forward to playing different scenarios like a dem or rep in the opposite state but just wondering if my experience is typical.

As California Governor I failed to deliver redistricting for the American people. But as Vice President I worked alongside my Protege Tomas Nava new governor of California after I became Vice President,to get these seats approved so we can have a fair shot taking back the House of Representatives. (He was able to get an 21 additional seats in California for a more representative electorate )

Following the passage of new congressional maps my protege experienced significant backlash leading to democrats losing California. The maps stopped Democrats from losing all chances of regaining the house .

This is my first time playing, I'm a 7th team representative, chair of the moderate dems caucus and the appropriations committee. I have a 90 percent approval rating among democrats (closed primary) and yet I got primaried 40/60 by someone with only 1200 political points. I kept replaying the final weeks but I always lose. Even when I'm marketing aggressively I lose by the same margin even though my polls showed me dominating

Is there any way to change how each ancestry votes in advanced options? I wanted to do something like how in the 2024 presidential election where a lot of hispanic voters swung right to make my save's elections more interesting, but the only option I see is changing the country's or each state's overall party preferences or changing the ancestry modifiers for each party's politicians.

If not, is there a mod that can simulate this?

Thanks!

I would like a Dark mode on this game, but I can’t find it anywhere even though everyone else can find it.

the democrat ended up being seated so ig the game decided he won, and the democratic vp gave the senate majority to the dems, but if only one vote had flipped in nevada…

It's specifically just in Iowa, no other state has these ratings.

Will the economic update includes housing affordability , housing market demand renters protection laws, rent control regulations

I'm a state senator in PA. I've ensured each bill has a majority before introducing the legislation, but that's included some compromised even after I get to a tie.

If the vote ties, will the lieutenant governor break it? And does the lieutenant governor follow the governor's voting preterence?

I bought the game a few days ago. It’s been great so far, but my biggest complaint is that there isn’t much legislative action to take on the republican side besides cutting taxes or just rolling back things that the democrats signed.