Nations

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This page mainly discusses the game mechanics for nations. For a list of all nations in Terra Invicta, as well as their initial stats, see Nation List instead.

Nation Stats view

Nations on Earth serve as battlegrounds for the aliens' designs on Earth and are sites of both political and military conflict. Human factions, using councilors and armies, will compete to control nations in order to make use of their resources to fulfill their objectives.

Most nations in Terra Invicta correspond to a single real-world Earth country, although in several cases adjacent groups of small nations are aggregated into a single nation so they have more relevance to the scale of the game, and any inter-nation issues within these fake aggregates generally take place below the scale of the simulation. Factions function as something like covert investors in nations, and with enough focus they can take control over the nation's economy and foreign policy.

National Stats

The prosperity and stability of Earth's nations, already tenuous in many places, has been thrown into doubt in light of the alien arrival. Different events throughout the game may alter the qualities of a nation significantly. These circumstances are tracked and made visible to the player, who can take various actions to modify them.

Overview

Population GDP per capita Investment points Economy priority Welfare priority Knowledge priority Government priority Unity priority Oppression priority Inequality cohesion Unrest Education Government score Spoils priority
Population Population green arrow up red arrow down red arrow down
GDP per capita GDPPC green arrow up
Investment points IP green arrow up green arrow up red arrow down
Economy priority Economy Priority red arrow down green arrow up green arrow up green arrow up
Welfare priority Welfare Priority red arrow down green arrow up
Knowledge priority Knowledge Priority red arrow down green arrow up red arrow down
Government priority Government Priority red arrow down green arrow up green arrow up
Unity priority Unity Priority red arrow down green arrow up red arrow down red arrow down
Oppression priority Oppression Priority red arrow down green arrow up red arrow down
Inequality Inequality green arrow up red arrow down green arrow up
cohesion Cohesion red arrow down green arrow up green arrow up red arrow down red arrow down red arrow down
Unrest Unrest red arrow down red arrow down red arrow down
Education Education green arrow up red arrow down
Government score Government green arrow up red arrow down red arrow down
Spoils priority Spoils Priority red arrow down green arrow up red arrow down
research Research green arrow up green arrow up red arrow down green arrow up green arrow up
mission control MC green arrow up green arrow up green arrow up
  • Each cell represents the effect of having higher amounts of the column stat on the row stat.
  • Lighter background colors indicate stronger effects on the row stat.
  • Empty cell indicates that the column stat has no direct effect on the row stat.
  • indicates a complex relationship that may invert the effects of the column stat on the row stat at different threshold levels.

Population

Nations are composed of regions that each have PopulationPopulation measured in millions. The total PopulationPopulation of a nation is one of its most important stats, as PopulationPopulation has significant effects on nearly all other stats, including but not limited to Investment pointsIP, research, Research output, Mission_Control cap, Army cap, and cohesionCohesion. Larger populations also make it slower to change nation stats. This means larger-pop nations tend to have more long-term potential, but also tend to be slower to realize that potential.

For detailed mechanics, see Population.

Government

The Government score of a nation represents how democratic it is, with 0 representing a totalitarian dictatorship, and 10 representing an idealized democracy. It is raised by the Government priorityGovernment Priority and lowered by the Oppression priorityOppression Priority and the Spoils prioritySpoils Priority.

For detailed mechanics, see Government.

Unrest

The Unrest score represents violent resistance to the political, economic or cultural status quo in this nation. High unrest hampers the economy and may result in a coup or revolution, which will transfer or clear many or all of the nation's Control Points at once. Unrest is fed by low Cohesion and low quality of life (per-capita GDP). The Oppression priority, the Stabilize mission, and armies can reduce it, especially in non-democracies.

~ Terra Invicta Codex, 0.4.85.

In a nation with 50 million PopulationPopulation:

In nations with smaller or larger PopulationPopulation, these changes are sped up or slowed down. See Population Scaling for more detail.

UnrestUnrest score ranges from 0 to 10:

UnrestUnrest Score range
Peaceful <1.5
Subversion <3
Strife <4.5
Insurgency <6
Guerilla War <7.5
Insurrection <9
Civil War ≥9

Base Unrest

UnrestUnrest changes relatively quickly (0.25 per month, and even +1 per month if the nation has 0 cohesionCohesion) if it is not at its resting value. This UnrestBase Unrest is calculated as:

Note: Human armies are not supposed to affect UnrestBase Unrest if their home nation cannot afford to pay their army upkeep. (Specifically, if their home nation has 0 Investment pointsIP production.) But this is currently bugged and they continue to affect UnrestBase Unrest anyway.

Alien-Related SPOILERS INSIDE!  

For the Alien Nation, the UnrestBase Unrest is further reduced by Xenoflora. Specifically, it is reduced by: (the average of the the Nation's Regions' Xenoflora Growth Levels) / 20.

It's generally better to reduce UnrestBase Unrest instead of reducing UnrestUnrest with Stabilize NationStabilize Nation missions and the Oppression priorityOppression Priority, otherwise it will grow back naturally and quickly.

Notable Effects of Unrest

  • Every 0.1 UnrestUnrest above 2 will remove 1% Investment pointsIP, capping at 80% Investment pointsIP at 10 UnrestUnrest.
  • The researchResearch produced by a Nation is multiplied by (1 - UnrestUnrest²/100). So it is multiplied by 100% at 0 UnrestUnrest, whereas it is multiplied by 0% at 10 UnrestUnrest.

Coups and revolutions

Naturally occurring coups and revolutions can happen at high levels of UnrestUnrest. The chances of coups and revolutions are checked every four days, with each nation assigned to one of the four days in the cycle. Revolutions are also checked whenever an Increase UnrestIncrease Unrest Mission in the nation has a critical success, and on 10% of the normal successes. Revolutions will always occur if >9.9 UnrestUnrest when checked, but never otherwise. A naturally occurring coup will never happen if ≥8 Government scoreGovernment and <8 UnrestUnrest; otherwise the daily chance of coup * 4 is checked.

The daily chance of coup is ((UnrestUnrest * 2 - cohesionCohesion - Government scoreGovernment) / 10 + conditional elite unhappiness) / 6000, where the elites' unhappiness is Corruption percent - Spoils prioritySpoils Priority percent, but is ignored if any of the following conditions are true:

So natural coups can be countered by lowering UnrestUnrest and increasing cohesionCohesion, Government scoreGovernment and Spoils prioritySpoils Priority (up to the Corruption level). The Spoils prioritySpoils Priority may often be ignored if the level of UnrestUnrest in a country is sufficiently low and the cohesionCohesion and/or Government scoreGovernment sufficiently high, even if the indicator appears red (but note that elite happiness or unhappiness will still be a modifying factor in the chance of targeted coups).

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The Alien Nation is immune to coups, even natural ones. But it can still be hit by revolutions.

Effects of a Coup

When a nation undergoes a coup for any reason, the following changes occur:

  1. The nation is removed from its federation.
  2. All diplomatic cooldowns involving the nation are set to 0 days.
  3. All control points in the nation are emptied, except for those owned by the faction whose councilor performed the Coup d'EtatCoup d'Etat, if any.
  4. The nation's Government scoreGovernment is changed by a random amount between -2 and 1.
  5. The nation's UnrestUnrest is changed by a random amount between -3 and 0.
  6. The nation's cohesionCohesion is changed by a random amount between -1 and 1.
  7. The nation's GDP is changed by a random amount between -10% and 0%.
  8. Distribute the control points of the nation to the Factions that raised the most UnrestUnrest through Increase UnrestIncrease Unrest missions, starting with the leftmost control point and continuing up until and including the rightmost non-empty control point that is immediately to the right of an empty control point. If no such control point exists, then only distribute the 2 leftmost control points instead.
  9. If the Coup d'EtatCoup d'Etat was performed by a councilor of some faction F, then:
    • If there are no empty control points in the nation, then give the one or two leftmost control points to F: one on normal success, two on critical success.
    • If there is exactly one empty control point in the nation and the Coup d'EtatCoup d'Etat mission was a critical success and the nation has at least two control points, then give the two rightmost control points to F.
    • Otherwise, give the first empty control point in the nation to F, and if the Coup d'EtatCoup d'Etat was a critical success, also give the control point immediately to the right of it to F.
  10. Empty out every control point that is to the right of an empty control point.
  11. If the Executive Control Point is no longer controlled by the same faction, then all of the nation's allies end their alliances, but the mutual diplomatic cooldowns are set to 0 days.
  12. Every councilor that is still planning to perform a Coup d'EtatCoup d'Etat mission on the nation this turn aborts their pending Coup d'EtatCoup d'Etat mission.
  13. Clear out all records of prior Increase UnrestIncrease Unrest missions on the nation.

Note: If any control point would be given to the The AliensAliens' faction, then the control point is given to The ServantsThe Servants faction instead.

Effects of a Revolution
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For details on Revolutions in the Alien Nation, see Nations#Alien_Related instead.

When a human nation undergoes a revolution, the following changes occur:

  1. The nation is removed from its federation.
  2. All diplomatic cooldowns involving the nation are set to 0 days.
  3. All control points in the nation are emptied.
  4. Each region of the nation takes a random amount of damage from 0% to 25%, double for the Capital regioncapital region.
  5. Distribute the control points of the nation to the Factions that raised the most UnrestUnrest through Increase UnrestIncrease Unrest missions, starting with the leftmost control point and continuing until either all control points have been distributed or there are not enough prior unrest missions to justify continuing to distribute the remaining control points.
  6. The nation's UnrestUnrest is changed by a semi-random amount between -6 and -3, affected by Public Support.
  7. The nation's cohesionCohesion is changed by a semi-random amount between -3 and 3, affected by Public Support.
  8. If the nation's InequalityInequality is at least 2.5, then it is changed by a semi-random amount between -3 and 0, affected by Public Support.
    • Note: This InequalityInequality reduction only occurs if at least 1 year has passed since the last time that the nation experienced a coup, revolution, or regime change.
  9. The nation's Government scoreGovernment is changed by a semi-random amount between -4.25 and 2.25, where the likelihood of positive changes is increased by the average Idealism of the new control point owners.
    • Note: Government scoreGovernment cannot increase if less than 1 year has passed since the last time that the nation experienced a coup, revolution, or regime change.
  10. X% chance for the number of loose nukes to increase by 1, where X is the number of Strategic nuclear barrageNuclear Weapons the nation had. But note that this doesn't actually reduce the number of Strategic nuclear barrageNuclear Weapons the nation has.
  11. Clear out all records of prior Increase UnrestIncrease Unrest missions on the nation.
  12. If the Executive Control Point is no longer controlled by the same faction, then all of the nation's allies end their alliances, but the mutual diplomatic cooldowns are set to 0 days.

Note: If any control point would be given to the The AliensAliens' faction, then the control point is given to The ServantsThe Servants faction instead.

The changes that are affected by Public Support are multiplied by X, where X is calculated as follows:

  1. Set X to 0.
  2. For each non-empty control point before the revolution:
    • If this is not the executive control point, then reduce X by 0.5 × the Public Support of the control point's faction.
    • If this is the executive control point, then reduce X by 1 × the Public Support of the control point's faction.
  3. For each non-empty control point after the revolution:
    • If this is not the executive control point, then increase X by 1 × the Public Support of the control point's faction.
    • If this is the executive control point, then increase X by 2 × the Public Support of the control point's faction.
  4. Increase X by a random value between 0 and 0.25.
  5. If all control points are empty both before and after the revolution, then again increase X by a random value between 0 and 0.25.

GDP

A nation's GDP is its Gross Domestic Product, measured in US dollars. It is primarily increased by investing in the Economy priorityEconomy Priority. GDP determines the raw Investment pointsIP output of a nation and the control pointsControl Point Capacity cost to hold its Control Points, and also influences how hard it is to target the nation with missions. Per-region GDP determines mission controlMission Control cap.

GDP per capita ("GDPPC") is the GDP divided by PopulationPopulation, and it has impacts on researchResearch, UnrestUnrest, SustainabilitySustainability, and corruption.

For detailed mechanics, see GDP.

Education

A nation's EducationEducation value is scored based on the average years of schooling a citizen in this nation receives as well as the quality of EducationEducation there. Nations with higher EducationEducation scores produce more research and are more resistant to extreme propaganda but gain less cohesion from the Unity priority.

~ Terra Invicta Codex, 0.4.85.

In a nation with 50 million PopulationPopulation:

In nations with smaller or larger PopulationPopulation, these changes are sped up or slowed down. See Nations#Population_Scaling_for_Nation_Stat_Changes for more detail.

EducationEducation Score range
Limited 1-5
Developing 5-8
Advanced 8+

EducationEducation cannot be decreased below 1.

EducationEducation is one of the largest factors influencing researchNational Research output aside from PopulationPopulation.

Research

As of Version RC6, the researchNational Research output is calculated as:

// PavonisInteractive.TerraInvicta.TINationState
public float research_month
{
	get
	{
		float population_Millions = this.population_Millions;
		float perCapitaGDP = this.perCapitaGDP;
		return (population_Millions * ((perCapitaGDP <= 30000f) ? Mathf.Pow(this.perCapitaGDP / 15000f, 0.6f) : (1.5157166f + 0.90942997f * (Mathf.Log(this.perCapitaGDP / 15000f) - 0.6931472f))) * (this.education * Mathf.Min(this.education, 12f)) * Mathf.Pow(Mathf.Max(this.democracy, 1f), 0.16666667f) * 0.0075f + Mathf.Min(this.population / 5000f, (float)this.numControlPoints + this.education + this.democracy / 2f)) * (1.25f - Mathf.Abs(this.cohesion - 5f) / 10f) * (1f - this.unrest * this.unrest * 0.01f) * (1f + this.adviserScienceBonus);
	}
}

In other words:

A) Base of Number of Control Points + EducationEducation + Government scoreGovernment / 2. Capped at PopulationPopulation / 5000.

B) PopulationPopulation in millions.

C) If the GDP per capitaGDPPC is $30000 or lower, use the number (GDP per capitaGDPPC/15000)^0.6.

If the GDP per capitaGDPPC is higher than $30000, use 1.5157166 + 0.90942997 × (ln(GDP per capitaGDPPC/15000) - 0.6931472) instead.

note: 1.5157166 is approximate value of 2^0.6, 0.90942997 is approximation of 0.6 × 2^0.6, and 0.6931472 is about ln(2), so this is about 2^0.6 × (1 + 0.6 × ln(GDP per capitaGDPPC/30000))

Research factor from GDPPC

D) Scales by EducationEducation squared, then linearly at 12: EducationEducation × Min(EducationEducation, 12)

E) Scales by the sixth root of Government scoreGovernment, with a floor of 1 at 1 Government scoreGovernment: Max(Government scoreGovernment0.16666667, 1) (maximum of ~1.4678).

F) 75% efficient at 10 and 0 cohesionCohesion, scales linearly to 125% at 5 cohesionCohesion.

G) 100% efficient at 0 UnrestUnrest and 0% efficient at 10 UnrestUnrest, scales with UnrestUnrest squared: 1-UnrestUnrest²/100

H) n% per ScienceScience AdviseAdvisor with diminishing return: 1% per ScienceScience of first AdviseAdvisor + 0.5% per ScienceScience of second AdviseAdvisor + 0.333333% from 3rd etc, always sorted by AdviseAdvisor bonus, descending (best AdviseAdvisor will count towards the first bonus).

These elements are combined as following: (A + B × C × D × E x 0.0075) × F × G × H

Mission Control

Whenever the Mission control priorityMission Control Priority is completed, a region in the nation is selected to gain 1 mission controlMission Control. A nation's MC is split equally between the owners of the nation's Control Points. See Mission Control#MC_from_Nations for details.

Boost

A nation that has completed the Found space program priorityFound Space Program Priority may invest in the Boost priorityBoost Priority, which will give the nation permanent production of boostBoost.

A nation's boost production is distributed between federation members, with larger members getting much more, and then each nation's boost is distributed equally between owners of that nation's Control Points. For details, see Boost.

Funding

The Funding priority directs national resources into legitimate government and private efforts to support space programs and other goals for the owners of its control points. While not as profitable as the Spoils priority, it does no harm to the nation.

~ Terra Invicta Codex, 0.4.85.

This is moneyMoney that the nation is providing each month to be distributed to owners of its control points.

Whenever the Funding priorityFunding Priority is completed, the nation's annual funding grows by 10 + (the nation's GDP in billions)^0.25 / 2, rounded to the nearest integer.

Notably, this is very similar to the formula used to determine how many control points a nation has. Thus in practice, the annual funding of a nation grows by 10 + the number of control points whenever the Funding priorityFunding Priority is completed.

The annual funding of a nation is capped at the nation's GDP in billions multiplied by 5.

Note: Nations that are part of a Federation will share their funding with all other Federation members. Larger nations will receive a much larger share of the Federation's total funding, with each nation's share being proportional to (the number of its control points) ^ 3.

Miltech

A nation's Military Technology, aka Military TechnologyMiltech, value represents the capability of the nation's armed forces. It has major impacts on an army's effectiveness in Terrestrial Warfare, and can be raised with the Military priorityMilitary Priority. For details, see Miltech.

Armies

A nation may build one or more armies with the Build army priorityBuild Army Priority if it has completed the Found military priorityFound Military Priority and has a population of at least 5 million. Armies can be used to conquer other nations, defend against conquests, or attack certain Alien objects.

For detailed mechanics of army costs, army control, and the number of armies a nation can build, see Army. For army combat mechanics, see Terrestrial Warfare. For the use of armies to conquer regions, see Foreign_Relations#War_Annexation. For attacking aliens, see Aliens#Reduction.

Navies

A nation's naval score is calculated by the number of NavyNavies it has attached to its ArmyArmies multiplied by the nation's Military TechnologyMiltech.

There are three possible navy states:

  • No Navies: No army has any navy attached.
  • Freedom of the Seas: At least one army has a navy attached and there are no enemies with a higher naval score.
  • Blockaded: At least one army has a navy attached and there are enemies with a higher naval score.

See Terrestrial_Warfare#Naval_Freedom for more details on how Blockades occur.

NavyNavies are built using the Build navy priorityBuild Navy Priority. The Build navy priorityBuild Navy Priority priority is only available for a nation when all of the following are true:

Strategic Nuclear Barrages

The number of strategic nuclear barrages that may be launched from this nation. Each barrage will devastate a single region and cause massive environmental damage globally. Nuclear strikes are directed by the faction in control of the executive control point.

Nuclear weapons can target any region belonging to current war enemies, or owned Regions with enemy forces present. Note that Surface-to-Orbit defensesadvanced defenses will prevent any nuclear attack.

Estimated Military Strength

The estimated military strength of a nation X is calculated as the sum of the following:

Category Conditions Multipliers
Number of Regions of X Not Fully Occupied Military TechnologyMiltech of X × 0.7
Number of Armies of X Not Megafauna Military TechnologyMiltech of X × 3 × Average Remaining Health % of the Armies
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For Alien Invader Armies, use their Military TechnologyMiltech instead of the Military TechnologyMiltech of the Alien Nation.

Number of Navies of X 1
UnrestUnrest Value of X -1
X has any Strategic nuclear barrageNukes? 100
Number Strategic nuclear barrageNukes of X 5

For example, at the start of the game, the nation of North Korea has 2.8 Military TechnologyMiltech, 1 region, 1 ArmyArmies, 0 NavyNavies, 0 UnrestUnrest, and 1 Strategic nuclear barrageNuclear Weapons. So its estimated military strength is the sum of:

So it has an estimated military strength of 115.36.

The estimated military strength of a nation is important because when multiple nations fight on the same side of a war, the nation with the highest estimated military strength is chosen to be the leader of the war alliance. War leaders gain more benefits from war conquests and are the ones who decide whether to accept their enemies requests for peace. War leaders on opposite sides can also agree to completely end the war, regardless of the opinions of the other nations involved in the war.

In addition, the estimated military strength of a nation is often used by the AI to determine their international relations. The AI is naturally more wary about having bad relations with nations that have high estimated military strength.

Space Defenses

The Space Defenses priority constructs a surface-to-orbit weapons array in one region in the nation. More valuable and populous regions will be protected first. Space Defenses prevent alien landings and nuclear strikes on the region it is located in, and fire back at fleets conducting orbital bombardment against targets in the region. The cost varies with the size of the region being protected.

~ Nation UI Tooltip for Space Defenses, Terra Invicta, 0.4.86.

Human Nations can build Space Defenses after Trans-Interface Warfare is researched.

Space Defenses are built in the following order:

  1. The Capital regionCapital region.
  2. The Core economic regionCore Economic regions, from highest PopulationPopulation to lowest.
  3. The Oil regionResource regionResource regions, from highest PopulationPopulation to lowest.
  4. The Non-Colony regions, from highest PopulationPopulation to lowest.
  5. The Colony regionColony Regions, from highest PopulationPopulation to lowest.

The amount of IP needed by the Space defenses prioritySpace Defenses priority to build Space Defenses in a region is calculated as 50 × Region Area / Median Region Area, but capped between 25 and 100. See Region List for a list of all regions and their areas.

Space Defenses are armed with a giant 1-GJ, 3600-cm laser (this is bigger than the Alien T3 base defense laser). Color will be best available of IR or green, and type, of laser, arc laser or phaser.

Exofighters

Human nations can build Exofighterexofighters after Exoatmospheric Fighters is researched.

Whenever the Build exofighter priorityBuild Exofighter priority is completed, a region in the nation is selected to increase its Exofighterexofighters by 1. The region is selected as follows:

  • Exclude all regions that are at their Maximum Exofighterexofighters.
  • If any remaining region has zero Exofighterexofighters, then pick the one with the highest boostBoost production.
  • Pick the one with the highest boostBoost production divided by the number of Exofighterexofighters already in the region.

The Maximum Exofighterexofighters of a region is calculated as:

  • 0 if the Monthly boostBoost Production is less than 1.
  • Min(64, Monthly boostBoost Production / 4), rounded up to the nearest integer.

Cohesion

A nation's Cohesion represents the level of unity or conflict among the people of the nation. This includes cultural, ideological, ethnic and religious similarities and differences. High values describe a unified society that brooks little deviation or dissent. Middle values represent a diverse society that has both internal conflict and a healthy, creative counterculture. Middle-low values represent a high degree of political polarization, and the lowest values mean the nation's people are fragmented or even tribal. High values keep unrest in check and increase the nation's ability to resist occupation, while middle values provide a bonus to national research production, representing a robust (if messy) marketplace of ideas, low values will rapidly increase unrest. Cohesion is lowered by high inequality, anocracy, having lots of regions or a large population, destruction of armies, and a large difference between public opinion and the ideology of control point owners. Cohesion is increased by autocracy and the Unity priority, and by rivalries and wars when at least one nation involved is not a democracy. Having a high Democracy score pulls cohesion toward a middle value.

~ Nation UI Tooltip for Cohesion, Terra Invicta, 0.4.90.

In a nation with 50 million PopulationPopulation:

In nations with smaller or larger PopulationPopulation, these changes are sped up or slowed down. See Population Scaling for more detail.

cohesionCohesion moves by 0.1 per month towards cohesionBase Cohesion. It can decrease faster, up to 0.25 per month towards its resting point, depending on InequalityInequality (this acceleration occurs for InequalityInequality values between 4 to 4.6). Specifically, when cohesionBase Cohesion is lower than cohesionCohesion, the cohesionCohesion decrease per month is calculated as follows:

Cohesion Decrease = Min( Max(0.1, (Inequality - 3) ^ 2 / 10), Min(0.25, Cohesion - Base Cohesion) )

This is not affected by Population Scaling and is rapid enough that it is usually better to move cohesionBase Cohesion rather than trying to fight the tide. See Nations#Resting_Cohesion for details on how to achieve this.

cohesionCohesion is also commonly changed by Events, and can be strongly affected by War Declarations and the Destruction of armies.

cohesionCohesion ranges from 0 to 10:

cohesionCohesion Score range
Fragmented <1
Fractured <2
Sectarian <3
Polarized <4
Competitive <5
Diverse <6
Integrated <7
Homogenous <8
Dominated <9
Hegemonic <10
Monolithic 10

Resting Cohesion

cohesionBase Cohesion depends on the following factors:

Factor Conditions Effect
Base Always 16
InequalityInequality ≤ 4.75 Reduce by Min(1, 0.5 + EducationEducation/20) × 2.25 × InequalityInequality
> 4.75 Reduce by Min(1, 0.5 + EducationEducation/20) × (3.25 × InequalityInequality - 4.75)
GDP per capitaGDPPC Always Reduce by (1 - (GDP per capitaGDPPC / Highest GDP per capitaGDPPC in last 10 years)) × InequalityInequality
PopulationPopulation 1 Region in Nation Reduce by (PopulationPopulation in millions)0.3.
>1 Region in Nation Reduce by (PopulationPopulation in millions)0.2.
PopulationPopulation Distribution Always Reduce by 0.0025/km × PopulationPopulation-weighted average distance from each Region to the nation's capital. Capped at 7.5 Reduction.
Wars <6 Government score Increase by number of war enemies. Capped at 3.
>=6 Government score Increase by number of war enemies that have <6 Government score. Capped at 3.
Peer Rivals <6 Government score Increase by 0.5 × Peer Rivals (at minimum 1 less Control Point). Capped at 3 - War cohesionBase Cohesion Bonus.
>=6 Government score Increase by 0.5 × Peer Rivals (at minimum 1 less Control Point) that have <6 Government score. Capped at 3 - War cohesionBase Cohesion Bonus.
Public vs. Elite Ideology Always Reduce by 2 × Distance between Public Opinion vs Control Point owners.
Public Opinion Distribution Always Change by -6 × (Standard Deviation of Public Opinion / Worst Possible Standard Deviation - 0.5).
Government scoreGovernment ≤ 3.5 Increase by (3.51.285 - Government scoreGovernment1.285) × ((10 - UnrestUnrest) / 10)
3.5 < Government score ≤ 5 Reduce by 3 - 2 × (5 - Government scoreGovernment)
5 < Government score ≤ 6.5 Reduce by 3 - 2 × (Government scoreGovernment - 5)
> 6.5 Stabilize (towards global value of 5) by 0.5 × (Government scoreGovernment - 6.5)
Owning Hostile Regions Always Reduce by 1.6 × Government scoreGovernment × Fraction of PopulationPopulation living in Hostile Regions

In other words, cohesionBase Cohesion is:

raised by:

centered by:

changed by:

lowered by:

Notable Effects of Cohesion

Underflowing Cohesion

If cohesionCohesion would ever be reduced below 0, then it underflows. This section discusses the effects of such an underflow.

In a nation with 50 million PopulationPopulation:

  • Government scoreGovernment is reduced by Min(cohesionCohesion Underflow Amount, Max(Government scoreGovernment - 5,0)) / 2.
  • UnrestUnrest is increased by (cohesionCohesion Underflow Amount - Min(cohesionCohesion Underflow Amount, Max(Government scoreGovernment - 5,0))) / 2.

In nations with smaller or larger PopulationPopulation, these changes are sped up or slowed down. See Population Scaling for more detail.

Public Opinion

Public Opinion reflects the overall opinion of the typical residents of a given nation, or of Earth generally. Having high public opinion gives a significant boost to a faction, as a built-in source of free influenceInfluence and as a bonus on a wide variety of missions. Public opinion can be changed in a wide variety of ways, either positive (such as performing Public Campaign missions) or negative (such as committing atrocities).

For details, see Public Opinion.

Sustainability

A nation's Sustainability value represents its ability to prevent emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from the economic activity within its borders. It represents the offset from expected emissions of Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide based on the nation's GDP, population, and presence of oil resource regions.

~ Terra Invicta Codex, 0.4.85.

In Terra Invicta, every nation has a Pollution Multiplier that caps at 10. This Pollution Multiplier multiplies:

Initially, nations cannot go below 0.3325 Pollution Multiplier. But researching all of the following technologies would reduce this minimum value down to the limit of 0:

In a nation with 50 million PopulationPopulation:

In nations with smaller or larger PopulationPopulation, these changes are sped up or slowed down. See Population Scaling for more detail.

Note: Region damage, such as from natural disasters and war, can rapidly increase a nation's Pollution Multiplier.

A nation's SustainabilitySustainabilityvalue is calculated as:

Once a nation reaches 10 SustainabilitySustainability (0 Pollution Multiplier), the Environment priorityEnvironment Priority will begin to remove Greenhouse Gases from the atmosphere.

At this point, there is a significant change: the population scaling effect gets inverted. A larger PopulationPopulation is now a boon: the amount of Greenhouse Gases removed whenever the Environment priorityEnvironment Priority is completed is now multiplied by (the nation's PopulationPopulation / 50 million) ^ 0.35.

Hence, a player who wishes to fix the Climate should aim to make the most populated nations reach 10 SustainabilitySustainability, and then heavily invest into the Environment priorityEnvironment Priority.

Inequality

A nation's Inequality score is a measure of how wealth and income is distributed in the nation. High values mean the nation doesn't have much of a middle class. Inequality grows by a little as a product of normal economic activity (the Economy Priority) or by a lot because of corruption (the Spoils Priority). Resource regions in a nation can contribute to inequality. High inequality reduces Cohesion as the nation divides into haves and have-nots. It is countered by use of the Welfare priority.

~ Terra Invicta Codex, 0.4.85.

In a nation with 50 million PopulationPopulation:

In nations with smaller or larger PopulationPopulation, these changes are sped up or slowed down. See Population Scaling for more detail.

Inequality score ranges from 1 to 9:

InequalityInequality Score range
Very Low 1-2
Low 2-3
Moderate 3-4
High 4-5
Very High 5-6
Extreme 6-9

Note: Whenever a nation's InequalityInequality would grow beyond 9, the excess amount is instead subtracted from cohesionCohesion and added to UnrestUnrest.

Corruption

Corruption (shown in the Spoils prioritySpoils Priority tooltip) determines what percentage of the nation's Investment pointsIP the elites want diverted to the Spoils prioritySpoils Priority (Note: Does not account for priority bonuses). If this is not done then Coup d'EtatCoup d'Etats become easier to perform against the nation, to the point where they might even naturally occur without any faction's involvement. Conversely, assigning more to the Spoils prioritySpoils Priority than the elites want will cause them to protect your nation from councilor Coup d'EtatCoup d'Etat attempts.

Corruption for human nations is calculated as follows:

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The Alien Administration always has 0% corruption.

Priorities

The settings in the Priorities tab control the distribution of Investment pointsIP, which represent surplus economic capital generated by the nation.

The owner of each control point may direct a share of Investment pointsIP into any number of priorities, either by selecting a present in the dropdown menu or setting them directly by clicking a spot in the grid.

Investment pointsIP are distributed by setting weights (0,1,2 or 3) for each priority, and the amount of Investment pointsIP going to a particular priority depends on the total number of weights set for a particular control point.

Investment pointsIP gradually fill buckets for each priority; once filled, the nation receives the effects of that priority, and in most cases it may be filled again.

Some priorities will be highlighted red if they are considered critical to the nation.

List of Priorities

Priority Investment pointsIP cost Requirements Effects Pop Scaled
Economy 1 None GDP per capitaGDPPC by 3 + (1.5 per Resource regionMining Region) + (1.5 per Oil regionOil Region) + (1.5 per Core economic regionCore Economic Region) + (0.5 per Government scoreGovernment) + EducationEducation Yes
InequalityInequality by 0.00015 + 0.0001 per Resource regionMining Region + 0.0001 per Oil regionOil Region Yes
Regions may be Improved into Core economic regionCore Economic, Resource regionMining or Oil regionOil Regions after sufficient investment No
base metalsBase Metals and noble metalsNoble Metals Market Prices No
Welfare 1 None InequalityInequality by 0.005 Yes
Has Colony regionColony Regions One Colony regionColony Region loses Colony regionColony status every 1000 completions No
Environment 1 10 SustainabilitySustainability Greenhouse Gases Inverted
<10 SustainabilitySustainability

Pollution Multiplier by -0.005 / Max(1, total layers of Fallout)

Yes
One Region loses a layer of FalloutFallout every 100 completions No
Knowledge 1 None

EducationEducation by 0.005

Yes
cohesionCohesion centered by 0.01 Yes
Government 1 <10 Government scoreGovernment Government scoreGovernment by 0.001 per EducationEducation Yes
10 Government scoreGovernment Same as Knowledge priorityKnowledge Priority Yes
Has Hostile Regions One Hostile Region loses Hostility every 200 completions (shared with Unity priorityUnity Priority). No
Unity 2 None

cohesionCohesion by Max(0.025, 0.1 - 0.005 × EducationEducation - 0.005 × Government scoreGovernment)

Yes
EducationEducation by 0.001 Yes

For each faction that owns any control points:
Apply Propaganda of strength 5 × number of control points owned by faction
(Religion counts as 4 control points)

Yes
Has Hostile Regions One Hostile Region loses Hostility every 200 completions (shared with Government priorityGovernment Priority). No
Military 1 Found Military Completed in Nation Military TechnologyMiltech by 0.00125 / Military TechnologyMiltech × Best Human Nation's Military TechnologyMiltech No
Oppression 1 Found Military Completed in Nation Government scoreGovernment by 0.0025 Yes
UnrestUnrest by (0.1 - Government scoreGovernment / 100) × 3 Yes
Found Military Completed in Nation and >5 Government scoreGovernment cohesionCohesion by 0.025 × (Government scoreGovernment - 5) Yes
Spoils 1 None InequalityInequality by 0.0025 + 0.0015 per Resource regionMining Region + 0.0015 per Oil regionOil Region Yes
Government scoreGovernment by 0.0005 Yes

For each faction that owns any control points:
Apply Propaganda of strength - 0.125 × (EducationEducation + Government scoreGovernment) × fraction of control points owned by faction

No
Pollution Multiplier by 0.0005 + 0.00075 per Resource regionMining Region + 0.00075 per Oil regionOil Region Yes
Greenhouse Gases Yes
Control Points Not Cracked

Each Faction's moneyMoney by (5 × Monthly Investment pointsIP + 5 per Resource regionMining Region + 5 per Oil regionOil Region + 2.5 × (10 - Government scoreGovernment)) × fraction of control points owned by faction

No
Funding 1 None Annual moneyMoney Production by 10 + max(round(((GDP in billions)^0.18)/1.09),1) No
Boost 2 Found Space Program Completed in Nation Annual boostBoost Production by 0.4 - (Launch Facility Latitude / 250) No
Mission Control 25 Found Space Program Completed in Federation mission controlMission Control by 1 No
Found Space Program 50 None Annual boostBoost Production by 0.1 No
Found Military 40 None

Set Military TechnologyMiltech to the Max of:

No
Build Army 60
  • Found Military Completed in Nation
  • >(5 + 25 × ArmyArmies) PopulationPopulation in Millions
  • Has a non-colony Region without its own Army
Builds an Army No
base metalsBase Metals and noble metalsNoble Metals Market Prices No
Build Navy 100
  • Found Military Completed in Nation
  • >4 Control Points, or 3 Control Points and >40000 GDP per capitaGDPPC
  • Has an Army without its own NavyNavy
Attaches NavyNavy to an Army No
base metalsBase Metals and noble metalsNoble Metals Market Prices No
Develop Atomic Bomb 80 None Strategic nuclear barrageNuclear Weapons by 1 No
fissilesFissiles Market Prices No
Aerosols by 0.0000777ppm No
Each Owning Faction Commits 1 Atrocity No
Nuclear Weapons 40 Develop Atomic Bomb Completed in Nation Strategic nuclear barrageNuclear Weapons by 1 No
fissilesFissiles Market Prices No
Space Defenses 25 to 100 (scaled by region size) Military ScienceTrans-Interface Warfare researched Builds a Surface-to-Orbit defensesSpace Defense Facility No
Build Exofighter 10 Builds an ExofighterExofighter No

Diversity Bonus

Each control point independently[1] gains a small diversity bonus to each of its priorities based on how much it is personally investing into other[2] nation building priorities.

Priority Diversity Multiplier
Economy priorityEconomy Priority 50%
Welfare priorityWelfare Priority 20%
Environment priorityEnvironment Priority 20%
Knowledge priorityKnowledge Priority 20%
Government priorityGovernment Priority 20%
Unity priorityUnity Priority 20%
Military priorityMilitary Priority 20%

Each of these nation building priorities adds a diversity bonus of X% to all other priorities, where X% is calculated as its (Diversity Multiplier × Pips in the priority for this control point ÷ Total pips for this control point).

For example, suppose a control point has 3 pips in the Economy priorityEconomy Priority, 1 pip in the Welfare priorityWelfare Priority, and 1 pip in the Spoils prioritySpoils Priority, for a total of 5 pips. Then:

Thus:

  • The Economy priorityEconomy Priority receives a diversity bonus of 4% (because it cannot receive the 30% from itself).
  • The Welfare priorityWelfare Priority receives a diversity bonus of 30% (because it cannot receive the 4% from itself).
  • The Spoils prioritySpoils Priority receives a diversity bonus of 30% + 4% = 34%.

Note: This diversity bonus is additive with other bonuses to nation priorities. Specifically, whenever a control point would put any Investment pointsIP into any priority, the amount of Investment pointsIP that is actually put into the priority is multiplied by:

100% + Priority Bonus from Orgs + Priority Bonus from Traits + Priority Bonus from Earth Interface Hab Modules + Priority Bonus received from Diversity + Priority Bonus from Projects + Priority Bonus from Federation + Priority Bonus from Mining Regions 


  1. ↑ The priority settings for the other control points have no effect whatsoever on the diversity bonuses for this control point.
  2. ↑ A priority cannot give itself its own diversity bonus

Direct Investment

Direct Investment allows a faction to purchase Investment pointsIP in a certain priority with moneyMoney, influenceInfluence, and/or opsOps. The number of Investment pointsIP that may be purchased each calendar year in any nation is capped at 12 × (PopulationPopulation in Millions × 48.75) ^ 0.175 × (GDP in Billions)^0.175, rounded to the nearest integer. Each priority type is affected by a number of distinct cost multipliers, shown at the bottom of this section.

Base Direct Investment Costs for each Nation Priority
Priority moneyMoney Cost influenceInfluence Cost opsOps Cost
Economy priorityEconomy Priority GDP per capitaGDPPC Increase Per Completion × PopulationPopulation in Millions / Required Investment pointsIP 25 0
Welfare priorityWelfare Priority 360000 / 67 × InequalityInequality Decrease Per Completion × PopulationPopulation in Millions / Required Investment pointsIP 100 0
Environment priorityEnvironment Priority 150000 × Pollution Multiplier Decrease Per Completion × (PopulationPopulation / 50 million) ^ 0.35 / Required Investment pointsIP 100 0
Knowledge priorityKnowledge Priority 625 / 41 × PopulationPopulation in Millions / (PopulationPopulation / 50 million) ^ 0.35 / Required Investment pointsIP 100 0
Government priorityGovernment Priority 150000 × Government scoreGovernment Increase Per Completion × (PopulationPopulation / 50 million) ^ 0.35 / Required Investment pointsIP 300 0
Unity priorityUnity Priority 400 × (PopulationPopulation / 50 million) ^ 0.35 / Required Investment pointsIP 300 / Required Investment pointsIP 0
Oppression priorityOppression Priority 0 50 × Max(1, Government scoreGovernment) × Required Investment pointsIP / (PopulationPopulation / 50 million) ^ 0.35 30 / (1 + Min(2, Military TechnologyMiltech / 10))
Funding priorityFunding Priority 0 5 × Funding priorityFunding Increase Per Completion / Required Investment pointsIP 0
Found space program priorityFound Space Program Priority 2800 / Required Investment pointsIP 2500 / Required Investment pointsIP 0
Boost priorityBoost Priority 1250 / Required Investment pointsIP 100 / Required Investment pointsIP 0
Mission control priorityMission Control Priority 2500 / Required Investment pointsIP 800 / Required Investment pointsIP 0
Found military priorityFound Military Priority 2000 / Required Investment pointsIP 2000 / Required Investment pointsIP 1500 / Required Investment pointsIP
Military priorityMilitary Priority 250 × Military TechnologyMiltech / Required Investment pointsIP 250 / Required Investment pointsIP 30 × Military TechnologyMiltech / Required Investment pointsIP
Build army priorityBuild Army Priority 10000 × Military TechnologyMiltech / Required Investment pointsIP 3000 / Required Investment pointsIP 2000 × Military TechnologyMiltech / Required Investment pointsIP
Build navy priorityBuild Navy Priority 1200 × Military TechnologyMiltech / Required Investment pointsIP 3000 / Required Investment pointsIP 1500 × Military TechnologyMiltech / Required Investment pointsIP
Develop atomic bomb priorityDevelop Atomic Bomb Priority 30000 / Required Investment pointsIP 3000 / Required Investment pointsIP 300 / Required Investment pointsIP
Nuclear weapons priorityNuclear Weapons Priority 5000 / Required Investment pointsIP 1500 / Required Investment pointsIP 150 / Required Investment pointsIP
Space defenses prioritySpace Defenses Priority 2500 / Required Investment pointsIP 800 / Required Investment pointsIP 600 / Required Investment pointsIP
Build exofighter priorityBuild Exofighter Priority 1000 / Required Investment pointsIP 200 / Required Investment pointsIP 150 / Required Investment pointsIP
Direct Investment Cost Multipliers
Category Conditions moneyMoney Cost Multiplier influenceInfluence Cost Multiplier opsOps Cost Multiplier
Corruption None 1.2 + Corruption × 0.9 1 + Corruption × 0.75 1
Projects Researched 1 - 0.15 for Transnational Investments - 0.15 for Adaptive FDI Modeling 1 - 0.25 for Strategic Lobbying - 0.25 for Regulatory Capture 1
Recently Conquered Within 365.25 days
Not Oppression priorityOppression Priority
Not Funding priorityFunding Priority
1 0.5 1
Nation Ownership Not Cracked 1 1 - 0.5 × Fraction of Control Points Owned 1
control pointsControl Point Capacity Cost Not Alien Nation
Not Funding priorityFunding Priority
1 0.1 × Single Control Point control pointsControl Point Capacity Cost 1
National Priority Bonuses Not from Federation
Not from Diversity
1 / (1 + Bonus) 1 / (1 + Bonus) 1 / (1 + Bonus)
Federation Bonus Economy priorityEconomy Priority Only 1 / (1 + Bonus) 1 / (1 + Bonus) 1 / (1 + Bonus)
Nation Resource regionMining Regions Build army priorityBuild Army Priority and Build navy priorityBuild Navy Priority Only 1 / (1 + 0.05 per Resource regionMining Region) 1 / (1 + 0.05 per Resource regionMining Region) 1 / (1 + 0.05 per Resource regionMining Region)

Elites

Each nation requires a certain percentage of Investment pointsIP to be put into the Spoils prioritySpoils Priority. Failing to provide enough Investment pointsIP into Spoils prioritySpoils Priority, shown by the priority becoming red, increases the chance of a coup. See Nations#Corruption for details on how this percentage is calculated.

Control Points

Control Points represent key nodes of political and economic power in a nation.

The faction that owns a control point has loyal followers in positions of authority. Control points grant their faction a portion of the nation's critical resources, control over the nation's armies, and the ability to direct investment priorities.

The researchResearch, boostBoost, mission controlMission Control and moneyMoney (from funding and spoils) produced by the nation is divided up equally among all of its control points. Control points that have sustained a CrackdownCrackdown or are abandoned still get their share, but the owning faction does not receive it.

If there are Armies controlled by the nation, owning a control point may also grant you direct control of said Armies. Control Points with Armies attached to them are shown with the Army symbol. If there is more than one Army attached to a control point then the number of attached Armies is shown over the symbol.

Certain powerful policies, such as joining and leaving federations and merging nations, require Consolidated control of the executive, which means the executive faction either gained control of the nation through violent means such as war or revolution, or must have held continuous control of the executive control point for 180 days.

Number of Control Points

The number of control points is based on the nation's GDP, specifically:

Number of Control Points = max(1,min(round(((GDP in billions)^0.18)/1.09),6))
GDP (Bn) Control Points
0-15.4 1
15.4-263 2
263-1701 3
1701-6869 4
6869-20944 5
20944+ 6

Whenever a nation's GDP grows to the point where it would gain a new control point, the new control point is added to the left and assigned to the same faction that controls the executive control point.

Whenever a nation's GDP shrinks to the point where it would lose a control point, the leftmost control point is removed.

Cost of Control Points

The control pointsControl Point Capacity cost of a control point is also based on the nation's GDP, specifically:

Total Cost of Control Points = (GDP in billions) ^ 0.6 / 2

This total control pointsControl Point Capacity cost is divided up evenly among all the control points of the nation.

Control points that have sustained a CrackdownCrackdown or are abandoned do not cost any control pointsControl Point Capacity.

When a faction exceeds their control pointsControl Point Capacity, they suffer the following penalties:

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Taking Control Points

To gain control over a neutral Control Point, one usually performs a successful Control NationControl Nation mission with one of their Councilors. Under normal circumstances, in nations with more than one Control Point, the executive Control Point can only be controlled if you already have a Control Point in a nation and it is the last Control Point to be taken. If every nation has all of their Control Points controlled by Factions, then the Control NationControl Nation mission becomes unavailable. In that case you would need to perform a successful PurgePurge mission on an enemy Control Point.

To increase PurgePurge success chances, it is recommended to conduct CrackdownCrackdown on these Control Points first. Another alternative to Control Nation is Coup d'EtatCoup d'Etat. It can either be performed with your councilor or happen naturally. See Nations#Effects_of_a_Coup for the effects of a coup, including the distribution of control points when a coup occurs. Coup d'EtatCoup d'Etat has a higher success chance in nations with high UnrestUnrest, so Increase UnrestIncrease Unrest missions can be very helpful.

One more alternative is to simply use war. When armies conquer a nation's Capital regioncapital region, all control points in the nation switch owners to whichever faction conquered them.

Control Point Types

Control points come in a variety of types. Their type depends on the national Government scoreGovernment and other conditions, and provides a related bonus for the faction controlling it.

Control Point Types for Human Nations, the conditions under which they appear, and what benefits they give to their Faction.
Position (from the Right) Conditions Control Point Type Benefits
1st None Executive
2nd ≥5 Government scoreGovernment Legislature
  • If Faction also owns the Executive, then +3 Bonus Defense against all PurgePurge and Dominate NationDominate Nation Missions targeting the Executive.
  • Otherwise, the faction gains +3 Bonus Attack on its PurgePurge Missions targeting the Executive.
≥6 EducationEducation and ≥7 cohesionCohesion Party
  • +3 Bonus Defense against all PurgePurge and Dominate NationDominate Nation Missions targeting each non-Executive control point owned by the Faction.
  • +3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's PurgePurge Missions targeting each non-Executive control point.
≥6 EducationEducation and <7 cohesionCohesion Oligarchs
  • If Faction also owns the Executive, then +3 Bonus Defense against all other factions' Coup d'EtatCoup Missions targeting the Nation.
  • +3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Coup d'EtatCoup Missions targeting the Nation.
Else Aristocracy +20% Nation Spoils prioritySpoils Money Output for Faction.
3rd <5 Government scoreGovernment Security Apparatus
≥7 EducationEducation Mass Media +3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Public CampaignPublic Campaign and Dominate NationDominate Nation missions within the Nation.
Else Religion +15 Propaganda Strength for Unity priorityUnity Priority's Propaganda for Faction. (Affected by Population Scaling.)
4th <4 Government scoreGovernment National Industries
  • +3 Bonus Defense against all Hostile TakeoverHostile Takeover Missions targeting Orgs owned by the Faction within the Nation.
  • +3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Hostile TakeoverHostile Takeover Missions within the Nation.
<3.5 InequalityInequality and >10000 GDP per capitaGDPPC and >7 EducationEducation Trade Unions Orgs based in the same nation cost 20% less influenceInfluence for Faction to purchase.
Else Corporations Orgs based in the same nation cost 20% less moneyMoney for Faction to purchase.
5th >6 cohesionCohesion Bureaucracy +3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Control NationControl Nation missions within the Nation.
>3 cohesionCohesion Regional Authorities +3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Stabilize NationStabilize Nation missions within the Nation.
>1 cohesionCohesion or <7 UnrestUnrest Identity Blocs +3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Increase UnrestIncrease Unrest missions within the Nation.
Else Warlords +6 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Increase UnrestIncrease Unrest missions within the Nation.
6th >9 Government scoreGovernment and >9 EducationEducation Knowledge Sector +5% researchNation Research Output for Faction.
>6 cohesionCohesion and Nation has a rival or war enemy which has at least the same number of control points. Defense Sector Faction's ArmyArmies that belong to this Nation gain +0.005 daily heal rate.
>6 Government scoreGovernment and >7 EducationEducation Financial Sector +5% Nation Funding priorityFunding Money Output for Faction.
Nation has at least 1 Oil regionOil or Resource regionMining Region Extractive Sector Nation Spoils prioritySpoils Money Output for Faction increased by 2 × Number of Oil regionOil or Resource regionMining Regions × Number of Control Points owned by Faction in Nation. Not affected by Aristocracy bonus.
Else Agricultural Sector Nothing.
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The Alien Nation does not have any special control point types or bonuses. Though naturally the Aliens still receive all of the benefits that an Executive Control Point grants.