Politics & Parliament
Parties & elections
Founding a party costs $500 and requires a unique name. Each citizen may cast one vote per election, for a party in their own nation. The election countdown starts at 7 years and resets to 7 after every election resolves.
Seat allocation (Largest Remainder Method)
- Total seats =
max(5, round(active population / 10)), always forced to an odd number. - Each party first gets
floor(its votes / total votes × seats); any leftover seats go to the parties with the largest remainders. - A party's own seats are filled by its members, leader first, then by status/age/money.
- If no party receives any votes, the nation gets a Technical (NPC) Government for that term.
Prime Minister
The leader of the party with the most seats becomes the sole Prime Minister. The PM:
- earns $2,000/year by default (law-adjustable up to $50,000) — note ordinary seated MPs are paid the same wage;
- votes on laws with triple weight (weight 3 vs. 1 for a regular MP);
- holds a one-time decree power per mandate to enact a law instantly, with no vote;
- can designate a Vice-PM who takes over immediately if the PM dies, is expelled, travels abroad or steps down (otherwise succession falls to the next eligible party member).
The 1st mandate as PM awards the Prime Minister Sash item (+1 law vote weight); a 2nd mandate upgrades to the Grand Cross of Civil Merit (+2). Simply founding a party grants no Parliament access — you must win seats first.
Parliamentary Attendance Rule
Every law proposal stays open to vote for 2 years. When it expires, any sitting MP who never cast a vote on it is expelled from Parliament — they keep their party membership and can run again at the next election, but lose their seat immediately (and, if they were PM, succession triggers right away). Market resupply "refill" motions are exempt from this rule.
Parliamentary Chat & bills
Sitting MPs (not all party members) share a private Government Chat for coordinating policy. Any sitting MP can propose a law; it passes if yes-votes exceed no-votes and at least one yes-vote was cast. Only one pending proposal per law type per nation is allowed at a time, and the same MP must wait 4 years before re-proposing the same law type.
Every tax rate, wage, budget and fund in the game is a law parameter set this way — see the full Taxes & Law Parameters table.
🎩 House of Lords
Members of The Elite Club sit in the House of Lords of the nation they live in. They can vote Yes or No on every pending bill of that nation (refill motions included), once per bill, from the Club page. They cannot propose bills. A member who also holds a seat in Parliament votes there, as an MP, and only there.
- The Lords vote as one bloc. Its weight is capped at half the voting weight of the sitting Parliament, rounded down (the Prime Minister counts 3, every other MP 1). A Parliament of 9 MPs with a PM weighs 11, so the Lords weigh at most 5.
- When the bill closes, the bloc weighs the number of Lords who voted, up to that cap, and is split between Yes and No in proportion to their votes, in whole numbers. With a cap of 3, ten Lords voting 7 Yes and 3 No add +2 Yes and +1 No; two Lords both voting Yes add +2 Yes.
- More Lords never weigh more than the cap: what counts is how united they are.
- The Lords' Yes and No are added to the MPs' weighted votes, and the usual rule applies: the bill passes if Yes is greater than No and at least one Yes was cast.
Early resolution. A bill used to close the moment every sitting MP had voted. It still does, unless the Lords could still change the result: the votes Lords have already cast stay as they are, and if the members living in that nation who haven't voted yet could still turn a pass into a fail (or the other way round) in any way they might vote, the bill stays open. It closes as soon as the result becomes certain — after an MP's vote, a Lord's vote, or a member leaving the Club — or when it expires. MPs see a note on the bill while it waits. In a nation where no Club member lives, nothing changes.
Lords' votes are shown next to the MPs' tally on each bill. They stay valid even if the Lord later leaves the Club. A person counts only once on a bill: someone who votes on it both as a Lord and, after being elected, as an MP (or the other way round) is counted as an MP.
Party Manifesto
The party Secretary can write and update a manifesto of up to 500 characters from a dedicated panel in the Party Headquarters. It is shown on the party’s profile, so members and rivals alike can see what the party stands for.
Election ballot
When the urn opens, the ballot no longer shows just a party name. For every party running you can see:
- its manifesto;
- who would become Prime Minister (the party’s Secretary);
- how many members it has and how many seats it currently holds;
- its membership fee;
- whether it is the outgoing governing party, and whether it is your own party.
Parties are listed by current seats, and you must confirm before your vote is submitted. Anyone holding the Golf Champion’s Cup is warned that their vote counts extra — the multiplier applies only to the first ballot of the election.
Party track record
Every party card shows how many bills it has proposed, how many were approved, and the last 3 approved laws. A law keeps the party that proposed it even if the proposer later leaves or defects, so a party’s legislative record cannot be carried away by one member.
Party Platform
The Secretary can also lock in up to 3 numeric policy positions, chosen from the same list of law types Parliament can vote on (taxes, wages, subsidies and every other votable budget figure). Each position is shown next to an arrow (⬆️/⬇️/➡️) comparing the promise to the value currently in force, recalculated live so a promise can’t keep claiming credit once Parliament has already moved past it. Positions are frozen for the duration of an election so they can’t be edited while voters are comparing them.
Election history
The State of the Nation tab includes an election archive, keeping the last 5 elections per nation: the winning party, votes received, seats won and seated, and voter turnout. Note that seats are decided by the Largest Remainder Method above, so the party with the most seats is not always the party with the most raw votes.