

While stability is low, membership of the Liberal group will be highly suppressed. Stability can be achieved through both gentle means (giving protesters what they want) or less gentle (sending machinegun armed police with tazers and drones and using torture and detention without trial). Its a major concern for foreign investment (which again.is new to the game), after all nobody wants to build a great big new factory in a foreign country if its burned to the ground by an angry mob (or seized by rebels). Stability is a new measure for your country, which shows how 'safe' the country is. This has been introduced as a new mechanic in Democracy 3:Africa. As a result, many of the concerns of the 'liberal' group' in Democracyu3 seem laughable in the context of states with real serious problems of stability and violence.

When the streets are on fire and angry mobs are looting and throwing petrol bombs, nobody goes out there to campaign for higher arts subsidies. When your country is in a real crisis, you may find it desirable to do away with some parts of democracy, if such concerns get in the way of you making rapid change. This 'bonus' capital comes to you because you are more totalitarian, and have greater control over the process of government. When Democracy is low, you get an extra boost to your political capital, which you will see on the ministers screen when you click the political capital button at the top left of the main screen. With all these downsides why would you ever restrict democracy in your country. A lack of democracy is very unpopular with foreign governments, who may be reluctant to send aid or invest in a country where there are perceived abuses of human rights. A lack of democracy will give rise to anger in certain groups, and can lead to a civil uprising which is very bad news. Naturally there are consequences to such actions. As the President, you can change this over time, either seizing more control by way of certain policies, or giving up power to the people. There are 6 cards in the series, and you'll receive 3 cards at random for purchasing and playing the game. Some countries start off very democratic, others.less so. Democracy 3 Africa was released on Steam with trading card support on 12 April 2016. In D3:Africa, Democracy is an actual variable that is measured. Also, Democracy was assumed, there was no suggestion that you would be able to change electoral terms, take control of the press or the judiciary. The more loyal they were, the more political capital you had, it was that simple. In Democracy 3, Political capital came purely from your ministers. The change is only the name, nothing else. In Democracy 3 we called this group retired, but that implies a state pension in some ways, (or at least some sort of independently provided pension) and we felt this gave a false impression of assumed affluence for elderly people in a number of African states. We also have a whole bunch of new situations and policies that specifically affect women. Do not forget that in Democracy 3:Africa, people are in a whole number of different voter groups *at the same time*, so we still have capitalist women, socialist women, liberal women and conservative women.

Women were never a distinct group in D3, but the different lives and experiences of women in some African states made it necessary for us to introduce Women as a distinct voter group. We also renamed 'Farmers' to 'Rural', as this more correctly conveyed the idea that this voter group represented everyone in non-city communities, not just people who directly work in agriculture. The lives of people in cities differ enough from rural life in many African states that this seemed to be an essential change. Obviously not everyone uses public transport which brings us to. Because Africa is a less urbanized environment than the western countries in Democracy 3, we felt it no longer needed to be there, and to some extent it could be replaced by Motorist. Poverty, +0% to +30%, scales with Rural percentage of population.You may notice that the voter groups in Democracy 3:Africa differ slightly from the original game, Some have moved 'position' to align them in what feels like a more logical layout, some are missing and some are new.Housing Expansion, Keep planning restrictions, +10%.Housing Expansion, Relax planning law, -10%.The flow of people from rural to urban areas has slowed, stabilizing the rural population. Mass urbanization is occurring, as large numbers of citizens move from rural areas into towns and cities. Access to more developed jobs markets, as well as better, centralized services is drawing our rural citizens to our towns and cities. The rate at which people are moving from rural areas into urban areas is extremely high, leaving rural areas sparsely populated.
