1.11: A world beginning in 1991

A new 1991 world opens in January, with the Soviet Union still intact. As the decade moves on, countries can form and govern successor states, negotiate federation settlements and use election systems shaped around their own institutions. Japan's 1991 House election uses single non-transferable vote, so each candidate can win one seat. Updated economic reference values give Soviet and Nigerian GDP and opening central-bank policy rates a consistent historical basis.

The country pages make regional conditions, party strength and politics easier to scan. The Actions page previews likely results, keeps action feedback visible and groups related operations. The season recap follows a character's actual elections, offices, votes, actions and finances, then presents them as a story. Corporation and profile pages also use clearer tables and layouts.

Behind the screens, the release adds safer recovery for money flows, more complete cash records, stronger reset data preservation, and faster work across turns, markets and supply contracts. The modern Hungarian Assembly uses saved constituency and national-list ballots when available; older campaign records without separate ballots keep the established deterministic regional approximation until their next election. Rechartered banks start a new loan book while prior loans continue through estate recovery, and construction in progress follows the remaining build orders. An optional explicit plant-cost model is available for fresh worlds, but stays off by default pending paired-world simulation and cost-plus qualification. Unknown saved sector types no longer crash a turn while their remaining migration work is assessed. A reset stops before deleting the old season if complete recap capture fails.

Missing regional-lean cache values are now rebuilt when a new world is seeded. The regional audit found that the UK model has too little regional contrast; historical recalibration and observations under player load remain tracked separately.

Security and reliability updates improve sign-in handling, external media checks, shared game actions and data exports. A vulnerable file-pattern dependency is also patched.

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  Sandbox error reports can be identified separately, helping us diagnose issues without mixing them with production reports.

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  Plant counts now follow the capacity you own as facilities grow, depreciate, move or change ownership. Capacity transfers conserve the full capital stock.

Banking and household demand

• •New private-bank loans quote a 1% origination fee before borrowing and withhold it from the cash received. Existing loans and legacy pending requests keep their existing terms, and retries cannot charge a fee twice.
• •Household borrowing responds to the lending spread over the policy rate. New bank charters start at the midpoint of their legal deposit and lending corridors.
• •Bank-held government coupon and maturity claims use funded treasury payments. Deposit insurance uses available government cash and pool-funded sovereign bonds; an unfunded failed estate stays unresolved.
• •Advertising inventory is a business input and no longer receives direct household spending. Other household basket weights adjust to preserve the spending budget, including entertainment services.

Manufacturing pricing

When explicit plant operating costs are enabled, manufacturing CEOs can quote cost-plus prices from recorded operating costs and a bounded markup. Fresh facilities need a producing turn first. The optional operating-cost model stays off by default, with activation tracked separately.

Recovered loan funding now retains its original fee, interest and loss reporting while preserving the completed cash transfer. Loan-fee controls and earnings explanations use translated copy.