Nations

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

GDPPC

IP

Economy Priority

Welfare Priority

Knowledge Priority

Government Priority

Unity Priority

Oppression Priority

Inequality

Cohesion

Unrest

Education

Government

Spoils Priority

Research

MC

• 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 populations measured in millions. The total population of a nation is one of its most important stats, as population has significant effects on nearly all other stats, including but not limited to:

• Monthly IP production.
• Research output.
• The maximum amount of Mission Control Cap that can be built in each region.
• The maximum amount of armies that the nation can build.
• Cohesion.
• Influence income from public support.
• Pollution output and pollution removal from the Environment priority.

As a result, nations with larger populations tend to have far greater long-term potential. On the other hand, nations with larger populations are also slower to change their nation stats, because of the need to apply these changes to a larger number of people.

Population Scaling for Nation Stat Changes

The following nation stats are considered to apply to the entire population of the nation:

• Government
• Unrest
• Cohesion
• Inequality
• GDP per Capita
• Education
• Sustainability

As a result, most changes to these stats are slowed down in nations with larger populations. Specifically, the amount of change is divided by (the nation's population / 50 million) ^ 0.35.

Notably, the monthly IP production of a nation is multiplied by (the nation's population) ^ 0.35.

Consequently, two nations with different populations but otherwise identical stats would usually develop themselves at the same rate.

Population Growth

As of 0.4.84, the game calculates the annual population growth of a region as follows:

WHAT THAT MEANS:

• Lower education increases population growth by roughly 0.42% for each point of education below roughly 11, up to a maximum of roughly 4.08%.
• Higher cohesion decreases population growth by roughly 0.06% for each point of cohesion, up to a maximum of roughly 0.62%.
• Higher GDP per capita increases population growth by roughly 0.098% for every 10k GDP per capita, up to a maximum of roughly 1.77%.
• Distance from the equator decreases population growth by 0.115739931206548% multiplied by the square root of the absolute latitude of the region.
• Every nation and region has a population growth modifier, which is defined in plain text in TINationTemplate.json and TIRegionTemplate.json in the game files. These values are normally added directly to the annual population growth, but slowly fade away over time. After 25 years, they are completely removed.
• Xenoflora decreases population growth by -1% per 200 levels of xenoflora growth. For reference, whenever xenoflora growth exceeds 100 levels, 50 levels are spent to spawn a megafauna.
• Nuclear fallout decreases population growth by 4% per layer of nuclear fallout. These can be removed through massive investments into the Environment priority.

The above effects are summed up and then capped between -10% and +10% annual population growth.

Then the effects of severe Climate Change are applied:

• For every degree of temperature anomaly above or below 8 degrees, population growth decreases by 1%.
• This effect is doubled for ecologically vulnerable regions.
• This effect is halved for ecologically protected regions.

At the start of every month, the population of every region is changed to match its projected annual population growth rate. But a small amount of randomization between -0.0412% and +0.0412% is also added to this monthly population change.

If the region population decreases, the nation's education does too. If you lose more than 0.5 million population (no, it does not scale with total population), you get the maximum reduction of -0.005 education. This can add up quickly in a large nation with many regions, each reducing the education by a maximum of -0.005 every month.

Note: This education decrease is only applied by the automatic monthly population change. Loss of population from other sources such as war or natural disasters has no effect on education.

Government

A nation's Government score measures the amount of democracy in a country, which represents things like civil liberties, popular selection of leaders, press freedoms, and rule of law via an independent judiciary. This impacts many things, including national stability and cohesion, research production, corruption, economic growth and the effectiveness of the military in controlling unrest.

~ Terra Invicta Codex, 0.4.85.

In a nation with 50 million Population:

• Government increases by 0.001 per Education whenever the Government priority is completed.
• Government decreases by 0.0025 whenever the Oppression priority is completed.
• Government decreases by 0.0005 whenever the Spoils priority is completed.
• Every month, if the nation is at war, then Government decreases by 0.01.
• Every month, if the nation has less than 4 Cohesion, then there is a (1 - Cohesion / 4) chance that Government decreases by 0.01.
• Every month, if the nation and all of its neighbors are not at war and all of its neighbors have higher Government than the nation, then the nation's Government increases by 0.01.

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

The Government score impacts the Cohesion score. A low Government score increases the Cohesion resting point, a middle score lowers the Cohesion resting point, while a high score draws the Cohesion resting point towards a central value of 5, and simultaneously increases research production. A higher Government score also lowers the Spoils priority requirement to keep the national elites happy in order to avoid resetting of CPs by Coup d'Etat and boosts economic growth. A lower Government score increases the effectiveness of the Oppression priority and armies at reducing Unrest.

Government score ranges from 0 to 10:

Government	Score range
Totalitarian	0-2
Authoritarian	2-4
Anocracy	4-6
Flawed Democracy	6-8
Full Democracy	8-10

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 population:

• Unrest decreases by (0.1 - Government / 100) whenever the Oppression priority is completed.

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

Unrest score ranges from 0 to 10:

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

Base Unrest

Unrest changes relatively quickly (0.25 per month, and even +1 per month if Cohesion=0) if it is not at its resting point. This resting point is calculated as:

• 10.5
• -1 per 10k GDP per capita.
• -1 per Cohesion.
• -0.1 per friendly non-megafauna army in the nation, multiplied by the army health %, multiplied by (10 - Government).

Note: Human armies do not affect unrest if their home nation cannot afford to pay their army upkeep. (Specifically, if their home nation has 0 IP production.)

SPOILERS INSIDE!
For the Alien Nation, the base unrest is then further reduced by Xenoflora. Specifically, it is reduced by: the average of the the nation's regions' xenoforming level (from 0 to 100) / 20.

It's generally better to reduce unrest resting point before reducing its value with Stabilize Nation missions and the oppression priority, otherwise it will grow back naturally and quickly.

Notable Effects of Unrest

• Every 0.1 point of Unrest above 2 will decrease Investment Points by 1%, capping at 80% at 10 Unrest.
• The Research produced by a Nation is multiplied by (1 - Unrest²/100). So it is multiplied by 100% at 0 Unrest, whereas it is multiplied by 0% at 10 Unrest.

Coups and revolutions

Naturally occurring coups and revolutions can happen at high levels of unrest. 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 will always occur if unrest > 9.9 when checked. A naturally occurring coup will never happen if democracy >= 8 and unrest < 8; otherwise the daily chance of coup * 4 is checked.

The daily chance of coup is ((unrest * 2 - cohesion - democracy) / 10 + elite unhappiness) / 6000. The elites' unhappiness is zero if the Spoils priority weight percentage matches or exceeds the nation's corruption or if one faction owns all the nation's control points and that faction's popularity >= 65%; otherwise it is corruption - Spoils percent as value from 0.0 to 1.0.

So natural coups can be countered by lowering unrest and increasing cohesion, democracy and Spoils (up to the corruption level). The Spoils priority may often be ignored if the level of unrest in a country is sufficiently low and the democracy/cohesion 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).

SPOILERS INSIDE!
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'Etat, if any.
4. The nation's Government is changed by a random amount between -2 and 1.
5. The nation's Unrest is changed by a random amount between -3 and 0.
6. The nation's Cohesion 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 Unrest through Increase 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'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'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'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'Etat mission on the nation this turn aborts their pending Coup d'Etat mission.
13. Clear out all records of prior Increase Unrest missions on the nation.

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

Effects of a Revolution

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 region.
5. Distribute the control points of the nation to the Factions that raised the most Unrest through Increase 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 Unrest is changed by a semi-random amount between -6 and -3, where the likelihood of larger reductions is proportional to how much the nation's public opinion prefers the new control point owners over the old control point owners.
7. The nation's Cohesion is changed by a semi-random amount between -3 and 3, where the likelihood of positive changes is proportional to how much the nation's public opinion prefers the new control point owners over the old control point owners.
8. If the nation's Inequality is at least 2.5, then it is changed by a semi-random amount between -3 and 0, where the likelihood of larger reductions is proportional to how much the nation's public opinion prefers the new control point owners over the old control point owners.
9. The nation's Government is changed by a semi-random amount between -4.25 and 2.25, where the likelihood of positive changes is proportional to the average Idealism of the new control point owners.
10. X% chance for the nation to lose a nuke, increasing the number of loose nukes by 1, where X is the number of nukes the nation had.
11. Clear out all records of prior Increase 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 Aliens' faction, then the control point is given to The Servants faction instead.

SPOILERS INSIDE!
For details on Revolutions in the Alien Nation, see Nations#Alien_Related instead.

GDP

A nation's GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, is a measure of its annual economic output in U.S. dollars adjusted by purchasing power parity. The nation's GDP determines how many Control Points a nation has, how many Investment Points it produces, and how difficult certain missions there are.

~ Terra Invicta Codex, 0.4.85.

The number of Control Points that a nation has is its (GDP in billions)^0.25/2, rounded to the nearest integer between 1 and 6.

GDP (Bn)	Control Points
0-81	1
81-625	2
625-2401	3
2401-6561	4
6561-14641	5
14641+	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.

Monthly Investment Points

These represent the nation's economic surplus that can be distributed by factions with Control Points in the Priorities tab. The value is set by the nation's GDP and reduced by the number of Armies and Navies it fields and by high levels of Unrest.

• The base value is equal to (GDP in billions)^0.35.
• Unrest decreases Monthly Investment Points by 1% for every 0.1 point of Unrest above 2, capping at -80% at 10 Unrest.
• Navies decrease Monthly Investment Points by 0.5 per navy.
• Armies stationed in their home regions decrease Monthly Investment Points by 0.5 per army.
• Armies stationed in another region decrease Monthly Investment Points by 1 per army.

The overall formula is (GDP in billions)^0.35 * (1 - max(Unrest-2, 0)/10) - 0.5*(# Navies) - 0.5*(# idle Armies at home) - 1*(# other Armies).

The value can be significantly increased during a turn by assigning a councilor to Advise the nation. The n-th advisor adds +(Advisor Administration / n)% to the Monthly Investment Points.

Per Capita GDP

A nation's per-capita GDP is its Gross Domestic Product divided by its population. It represents the economic conditions for the average citizen of this nation. Nations with low per-capita GDP will face higher unrest while the people's needs are not being met.

Putting investment points into the Economy priority can increase GDP. Conflict, population loss, and climate change are among the things that can cause it to decrease.

~ Terra Invicta Codex, 0.4.85.

In a nation with 50 million Population, the Economy priority increases the GDP per capita by:

• 3 (Base value), slightly increased by certain global Techs.
• +1.5 per Oil Region
• +1.5 per Mining Region.
• +1.5 per Core Economic Region.
• +0.5 per Government.
• +1 per Education.

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

This means that for maximum GDP growth, you want higher Government, higher Education, as well as as many economic, oil, and mining regions as possible.

It must be noted that a significant economic growth in a nation may also carry negative consequences to the planet's climate stability. Climate Change has a negative effect on GDP that is increased by Inequality.

GDP Per Region

When distributing GDP to regions within a country, the game distributes them based on economic modifiers. It pretends colony regions have 50% the people who actually live there, and that core oil, core mining, and core economic regions have 125%, then distributes GDP evenly based on that modified population. This effectively means that regional GDP per capita is higher in core regions than in "regular" regions, and are lower in colonies.

This affects the amount of Mission Control cap that can be built in each region.

Education

A nation's Education value is scored based on the average years of schooling a citizen in this nation receives as well as the quality of Education there. Nations with higher Education 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 Population:

• Education increases by 0.005 whenever the Knowledge priority is completed.
  • Multiplied by 8.5 / Education if Education < 8.5.
  • Multiplied by 12 / Education if Education > 12.
• Education decreases by 0.001 whenever the Unity priority is completed.

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

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

Education cannot be decreased below 1.

Education is one of the largest factors influencing national research output aside from Population.

Research

As of 0.4.84, a nation's research output is calculated as: File:ResearchMonth.png

In other words:

A) Base of 12 + Education Score. Capped at Population / 2000.

B) Population in millions.

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

If the GDP per capita is higher than $30000, use 1.5157166 + 0.90942997 × (ln(GDPPC/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 this is equivalent to 2^0.6 × (1 + 0.6 × ln(GDPPC/30000))

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

E) Scales by the sixth root of Government, with a floor of 1 at 1 Government: Max( Government^0.16666667, 1) (maximum of ~1.4678).

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

G) 100% efficient at 0 Unrest and 0% efficient at 10 Unrest, scales with Unrest squared: 1-Unrest²/100

H) n% per science advisor with diminishing return: 1% per science of first advisor + 0.5% per science of second advisor + 0.333333% from 3rd etc, always sorted by advisor bonus, descending (best advisor 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

Completing the Mission Control priority grants one Mission Control to the nation. New facilities will tend to go in regions that already have Mission Control facilities. A region's Mission Control maximum capacity is a function of the region's GDP and education.

~ Terra Invicta Codex, 0.4.85.

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

Whenever the Mission Control priority is completed, a random region in the nation is selected to increase its Mission Control by 1. This random selection is slightly weighted to favor capital and core economic regions over colony regions. It cannot select regions that are currently occupied by war enemies. It also cannot select any regions that have reached (or exceeded) their Maximum Mission Control.

The Maximum Mission Control of a region is calculated as 1 + Region GDP in billions / Max(200, 300 - 6 * Education), rounded down to the nearest integer.

In practice, this formula is dominated by the region Population and nation GDPPC factors, so players who wish to rapidly increase their nation's Maximum Mission Control should focus on the Economy priority over the Knowledge priority.

Boost

The Boost priority covers the construction of launch facilities for rockets and other surface-to-orbit craft, increasing the nation's total boost. The amount of boost created increases with proximity to the equator, and new facilities will tend to go in regions that are closer to the equator or already have launch facilities.

~ Terra Invicta Codex, 0.4.85.

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

Whenever the Boost priority is completed, a random region in the nation is selected to increase its Boost production. This random selection is heavily weighted to favor the regions that already produce the most Boost, with a slight preference for regions that would gain more Boost production when selected. It also heavily prefers regions that are not currently occupied by war enemies.

The amount of Boost production a region gains depends on the latitude of its Launch Facility. Specifically, the region's annual Boost production increases by 0.4 - (Launch Facility Latitude / 250).

So the worst regions are Iceland and Arkhangelsk, whose Launch Facility Latitudes of 65 mean that each only gains 0.14 annual Boost production when selected. Whereas the best regions are the 26 regions with Launch Facilities that are practically on the Equator: each gains 0.4 annual Boost production when selected.

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

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

Whenever the Funding 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 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 (Miltech) value represents the capability of the nation's armed forces.

Miltech is increased by 0.00125 whenever the Miltary priority is completed. This is further increased for nations that are falling behind on Miltech. Specifically, the effect is multiplied by (best Human Nation's Miltech / this nation's Miltech).

Unification between two nations balances the Miltech score between the two nations. Miltech applies to both army strength, which changes together with national Miltech level, and regional defense power.

Miltech score ranges from 2 to infinity. The Miltech 'age' also determines the visual appearance of armies.

Score range	2-3	3-4	4-5	5-6	6-7	7-infinity
Miltech age	Industrial Age	Atomic Age	Information Age	Robotics Age	Invasion Age	Fusion Age

Initially the Miltech score is capped at level 5, which can be increased by 0.5 with each of the following global research technologies:

• Cybernetics
• Applied Artificial Intelligence
• Next-Generation Aerospace
• Diamondoids
• Terrestrial Military Science
• Networked Global Defense
• Coilguns
• Trans-Interface Warfare
• Future Tech: Military Science

Armies

Armies are powerful and expensive assets that belong to nations. Each army represents multiple divisions of troops, air support, and a logistics train sufficient for the unit to take and hold territory outside their home nation's borders.

Naval armies are supported by a combat and transport fleet, and are able to cross oceans if the nation's naval score exceeds that of its enemies.

Armies are bound to a particular control point in a nation; the owner of that control point commands the army's actions. Use of armies on foreign soil are subject the nation's relations; they may be stationed in allied nations and only enter the territory of hostile nations during war.

Each nation may have one army per region it controls; if a region joins another nation, any armies based in that region will belong to the new nation.

~ Nation UI Tooltip for Armies, Terra Invicta, 0.4.86.

An army needs two things: people and land.

• Each army needs its own unique home region that is:
  • Not shared by any other army.
  • Not a colony region.
  • Not occupied by enemy forces.
• Each army needs 25 million population in the nation.
  • Except the first army of each nation gets a discount: it only needs 5 million population.

Some nations do not begin with any military, and must first complete the Found Military priority before they can use the Build Army priority to build any armies.

Navies

A nation's naval score is calculated by the number of navies it has attached to its Armies multiplied by the nation's Miltech score.

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.

A nation can only build navies if one of the following is true:

• It has at least 4 control points.
• It has 3 control points and at least 40000 GDPPC and no navies.

Furthermore, since navies only exist as attachments to Armies, the Build Navy priority can only be used if there is at least one army that does not have its own navy attached.

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 advanced 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	Miltech of X × 0.7
Number of Armies of X	Not Megafauna	Miltech of X × 3 × Average Remaining Health % of the Armies
Number of Navies of X		1
Unrest Value of X		-1
X has any Nukes?		100
Number Nukes of X		5

For example, at the start of the game, the nation of North Korea has 2.8 Miltech, 1 region, 1 Army, 0 Navies, 0 Unrest, and 1 Nuke. So its estimated military strength is the sum of:

• 1 Region × 2.8 Miltech × 0.7 = 1.96
• 1 Army × 2.8 Miltech × 3 × 100% = 8.4
• 0 Navies × 1 = 0
• 0 Unrest × -1 = 0
• 1 (has nukes) × 100 = 100
• 1 Nuke × 5 = 5

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 region.
2. The Core Economic regions, from highest Population to lowest.
3. The Resource regions, from highest Population to lowest.
4. The Non-Colony regions, from highest Population to lowest.
5. The Colony Regions, from highest Population to lowest.

The amount of IP needed by the Space 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.

Exofighters

Human nations can build exofighters after Exoatmospheric Fighters is researched.

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

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

The Maximum exofighters of a region is calculated as:

• 0 if the Monthly Boost Production is less than 1.
• Min(64, Monthly Boost 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 Population:

• Cohesion changes by 0.01 towards the central value of 5 whenever the Knowledge priority is completed.
• Cohesion increases by 0.1 whenever the Unity priority is completed.
  • This is reduced by 0.005 per Education.
  • This is reduced by 0.005 per Government.
  • This cannot be reduced below 0.025.
• If Government > 5, then Cohesion decreases by 0.025 per Government over 5 whenever the Oppression priority is completed.

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

Cohesion moves by 0.1 per month towards its resting point. In nations with high Inequality, cohesion can decrease even faster, up to 0.25 per month towards its resting point. This is rapid enough that it is usually better to move the resting point rather than trying to fight the tide. See Nations#Resting_Cohesion for details on how to achieve this.

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

Cohesion score ranges from 0 to 10:

Cohesion	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

Resting cohesion depends on the following factors:

Factor	Conditions	Effect
Base	Always	16
Inequality	≤ 4.75	Reduce by Min(1, 0.5 + Education/20) × 2.25 × Inequality
	> 4.75	Reduce by Min(1, 0.5 + Education/20) × (3.25 × Inequality - 4.75)
GDPPC	Always	Reduce by (1 - (GDPPC / Highest GDPPC in last 10 years)) × Inequality
Population	Always	Reduce by (Population in millions)0.2
Population Distribution	Always	Reduce by 0.0025 per km distance between the nation's capital and the nation's Population center. Capped at -7.5.
Wars	<6	Increase by number of war enemies. Capped at 3.
	>=6	Increase by number of war enemies that have <6 . Capped at 3.
Peer Rivals	<6	Increase by 0.5 × Peer Rivals (at minimum 1 less Control Point). Capped at 3 - War Cohesion Bonus.
	>=6	Increase by 0.5 × Peer Rivals (at minimum 1 less Control Point) that have <6 . Capped at 3 - War 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	≤ 3.5	Increase by (3.51.5 - 1.5) × ((10 - Unrest) / 10)
	3.5 < ≤ 5	Reduce by 3 - 2 × (5 - )
	5 < ≤ 6.5	Reduce by 3 - 2 × ( - 5)
	> 6.5	Stabilize (towards global value of 5) by 0.5 × ( - 6.5)

In other words, the resting point of Cohesion is

raised by:

• Low Government score, weaker when Unrest is high.
• War enemies that either have <6 Government or our nation has <6 Government. Capped at 3.
• Rivalries with nations no more than 1 control point smaller, that either have <6 Government or our nation has <6 Government. Capped at 3 - the amount already given by the War Cohesion Bonus.

centered by:

• High Government score.

changed by:

• Public Opinion distribution.

lowered by:

• Medium Government score.
• High Inequality score, stronger when Education is high.
• Loss of GDP per Capita within the last 10 years.
• Population.
• Geographic Population Distribution.
• Difference between average public opinion and the Factions that own the control points.

Notable Effects of Cohesion

• The Base Unrest of a Nation is reduced by its Cohesion.
• The Research produced by a Nation is multiplied by (1.25 - |Cohesion - 5| / 10). So it is multiplied by 75% at 0 Cohesion and at 10 Cohesion, whereas it is multiplied by 125% at 5 Cohesion.

Underflowing Cohesion

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

In a nation with 50 million Population:

• Government is reduced by Min(Cohesion Underflow Amount, Max(Government - 5,0)) / 2.
• Unrest is reduced by (Cohesion Underflow Amount - Min(Cohesion Underflow Amount, Max(Government - 5,0))) / 2.

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

Public Opinion

The people of Earth all hold a particular viewpoint about the alien arrival. But people are malleable, and events and propaganda can sway them to a different point of view.

These viewpoints track with the ideologies of each faction, along with an "undecided" viewpoint in the middle of all of them. Ideologies have a position relative to each other; when events have a chance to change someone's opinion, they will typically move to something nearby -- a Resistance supporter could see their views radicalize to those of Humanity First, or soften to being simply undecided, for example.

Public support for your faction is a primary source of the influence resource. You will also receive bonuses on missions in nations where a large portion of the public is on your side.

A potential mover of public opinion are atrocities committed by a faction. Atrocities are actions that cause mass death or suffering, and responsible factions suffer the loss of supporters as a result. Atrocities are cumulative; as a faction commits more, the public opinion penalty increases dramatically.

~ Terra Invicta Codex, 0.4.85.

Public support for a faction provides many benefits, including but not limited to:

Influence Income

For every one million supporters a faction possesses, their annual Influence income is increased by 0.5.

This bonus applies even if the faction does not possess any of the nation's control points.

With over 8 billion people on Earth, a faction with high public support around the globe could earn more than 200 Influence every month, just from their public support.

Councilor Mission Support

Most councilor missions that attempt to gain or maintain control of the nation have mission modifiers based on the nation's public opinion. Public support for a faction makes such missions significantly easier for them, and significantly harder against them.

This is especially true in highly democratic nations.

Specifically, the mission modifier has X points, where X = (10 + Government) * public support fraction for the faction.

Preventing Organic Coups

In very rare cases, high Corruption in a nation can lead its elites to organically launch a coup even without outside intervention, if they are not sufficiently appeased by investments into the Spoils priority.

But high public support (>65%) for the faction that owns the nation automatically prevents such organic coups from occurring.

Post-Revolution Changes

Whenever a revolution occurs in a human nation, public support for the old control point owners is compared to public support for the new control point owners. If the new owners are significantly more popular with the public, the nation can experience large benefits: increased Cohesion, reduced Unrest, and reduced Inequality.

Cohesion Rest Value

Public opinion affects the Cohesion Rest Value of a nation in two ways.

First, Factions that own a nation will find the nation to be significantly less cohesive when the public does not support them. This is represented as an X point penalty to the nation's Cohesion Rest Value, where X is twice the ideological distance between the average ideology of the factions that own the nation's control points and the population-weighted average ideology of the public.

Note: ideological distance is calculated using good old pythagoras.

Second, a public with wildly differing views is naturally far less cohesive than a public that bands together to support one ideology. This is represented as an X point penalty to the nation's Cohesion Rest Value, where X is calculated as follows:

1. Set X to be the public opinion's standard deviation.

2. Divide X by the worst possible standard deviation (this is when the two most different ideologies are each supported by exactly half the public).

3. Subtract 0.5 from X.

4. Multiply X by 6.

Note: X can actually be negative, meaning that the Cohesion Rest Value can actually be increased by a highly unified public opinion.

Changing Public Opinion

A nation's public opinion can be changed by applying Propaganda to it. Each piece of propaganda is defined by two things: the faction ideology it is aimed at, and the strength of the propaganda. For example, a typical public campaign mission applies Propaganda for the councilor's faction, with a strength of roughly 10.

How Propaganda Works

Faction Ideology Chart

Whenever Propaganda of strength X for a faction F is applied on a nation, the population of the nation is split into roughly (population / 100) ^ 0.5 groups, where each group fully supports one ideology. Then for each group:

• Nothing happens if any of the following are true:
  • X >= 0 and the group already supports faction F. Because this is just preaching to the choir.
  • X < 0 and the group does not support faction F.
  • An X% chance roll fails, indicating that the propaganda failed to convince the group.
• If X >= 0, then:
  • There is a 10/X chance that the group's ideology moves towards F's ideology by 1 unit, then moves to the closest matching ideology.
  • Otherwise the group's ideology moves towards F's ideology by 2 units, then moves to the closest matching ideology.
• If X < 0, then:
  • There is a 10/X chance that the group's ideology moves by 1 unit in a completely random direction away from F (but in 3 dimensions), then moves to the closest matching ideology.
  • Otherwise the group's ideology is moved to a completely random coordinate within a square of length 2 that is centered on the group's original ideology, and then the group moves to the closest matching ideology.

Sources of Propaganda

These include but are not limited to:

A Successful Councilor Public Campaign

Applies propaganda for the councilor's faction with strength X, where X is calculated as:

10	Base Value.
×2	On critical success.
Up to +9	Earth Interface Hab Module bonus (Broadcast Outlets, Communications Hubs, and Media Centers.)
×1.15	Project Research: Appeals to Hope Messaging (Available to The Resistance, Project Exodus, and The Academy.)
×1.25	Project Research: Appeals to Fear Messaging (Available to Humanity First, The Initiative, The Protectorate, and The Servants.)
×1.25	Project Research: SPOILERS INSIDE!   Enslave the Masters (Available to The Initiative.)
-3.5 to +3.5	Random.

A Unity Priority Completion

Applies propaganda for each faction that owns any of the nation's control points.

Propaganda strength is 5 multiplied by the number of control points owned by the faction, but the Religion control point counts as 4 control points.

Propaganda strength is also affected by Population Scaling.

Abandoned or Cracked control points do not count.

A Spoils Priority Completion

Applies propaganda for each faction that owns any of the nation's control points.

Propaganda strength is (Education + Government) multiplied by -0.125 multiplied by the fraction of the nation's control points owned by the faction.

An Army Destroyed

Applies propaganda for the faction that controlled the army on the home nation of the army.

Propaganda strength is Government multiplied by -1.

A Martyr Councilor Killed

Applies propaganda for the councilor's faction on every nation.

Propaganda strength is 35.

An Atrocity Committed

Applies propaganda with strength X for the faction responsible on every nation, where X is calculated as:

1. Set X to the total number of atrocities committed by the faction, including the newest atrocity.
2. Multiply X by -0.333.
3. Divide X by 2 if Total War Framing has been researched. (Available to Humanity First, The Initiative, and The Servants.)

Publicize Alien Threat Researched

Applies propaganda with strength 10 for the faction responsible on every nation.

Available to Humanity First, The Resistance, and Project Exodus.

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:

• The amount of Greenhouse Gases that the nation passively produces each month.
• The amount of Greenhouse Gases that the nation produces whenever it completes the Spoils priority.

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

• Arrival International Development reduces the minimum by 0.05.
• Designer Lifeforms reduces the minimum by 0.05.
• Integrated Earth-Space Economy reduces the minimum by 0.05.
• Clean Energy reduces the minimum by 0.1.
• Climate Change Mitigation reduces the minimum by 0.1.

In a nation with 50 million Population:

• The Pollution Multiplier increases by 0.0005 whenever the Spoils priority is completed.
  • This is further increased by 0.0005 per Oil or Mining Region.
• The Pollution Multiplier decreases by -0.005 whenever the Environment priority is completed.
  • Multiplied by the Pollution Multiplier / 2 if the Pollution Multiplier > 2.
  • Multiplied by Max(0.25, the Pollution Multiplier / 0.5) if the Pollution Multiplier < 0.5.
  • Divided by the number of layers of nuclear fallout within the nation, if the nation has any layers of nuclear fallout.

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

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

A nation's Sustainability value is calculated as:

• 10 if the Pollution Multiplier = 0.
• 9.99+ if (1 / the Pollution Multiplier) > 9.99.
• 9.9+ if (1 / the Pollution Multiplier) > 9.9.
• 1 / the Pollution Multiplier otherwise.

Once a nation's Sustainability value reaches 10 (its Pollution Multiplier reaches 0), the Environment 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 Population is now a boon: the amount of Greenhouse Gases removed whenever the Environment priority is completed is now multiplied by (the nation's Population / 50 million) ^ 0.35.

Hence, a player who wishes to fix the Climate should aim to make the most populated nations reach Sustainability 10, and then heavily invest into the Environment 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 Population:

• Inequality increases by 0.00015 whenever the Economy priority is completed.
  • This is further increased by 0.0001 per Resource Region.
• Inequality increases by 0.0025 whenever the Spoils priority is completed.
  • This is further increased by 0.001 per Resource Region.
• Inequality decreases by 0.005 whenever the Welfare priority is completed.

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

Inequality score ranges from 1 to 9:

Inequality	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 Inequality would grow beyond 9, the excess amount is instead subtracted from Cohesion and added to Unrest.

Corruption

Corruption is a hidden value which determines what percentage of the nation's investment points the elites want diverted to the spoils priority (Note: Does not account for priority bonuses). If this is not done then Coup d'Etats become easier to perform against the nation, to the point where they might even naturally occur without any faction's involvement. Conversely, spoiling more than the elites want will cause them to protect your nation from councilor Coup d'Etat attempts.

Corruption for human nations is calculated as follows:

• 50% base value.
• Decreased by 2.65515% for every point of Government.
• Decreased by 0.57342% for every point of Cohesion.
• Decreased by 0.824624% for every 3k GDP per capita.
• Multiplied by 0.8 if the A Common Concern project has been researched.
  • Note: Only available to The Resistance, The Academy, Project Exodus, and The Servants.
• Capped from below at 5%.

SPOILERS INSIDE!
The Alien Administration always has 0% corruption.

Priorities

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

The owner of each control point may direct a share of investment points 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 points are distributed by setting weights (0,1,2 or 3) for each priority, and the amount of investment points going to a particular priority depends on the total number of weights set for a particular control point.

Investment points 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	IP cost	Requirements	Effects	Pop Scaled
Economy	1	None	GDPPC by 3 + 1.5 per Mining Region + 1.5 per Oil Region + 1.5 per Core Economic Region + 0.5 × Government + Education	Yes
			Inequality by 0.00015 + 0.0001 per Mining Region + 0.0001 per Oil Region	Yes
			Regions may be upgraded into Core Economic, Mining or Oil Regions after sufficient investment	No
			Metal and Noble Metal Market Prices	No
Welfare	1	None	Inequality by 0.005	Yes
			Regions may lose Colony status after sufficient investment	No
Environment	1	10 Sustainability	Greenhouse Gases	Inverted
		<10 Sustainability	Pollution Multiplier by -0.005 / Max(1, total layers of Fallout) × Pollution Multiplier / 2 if the Pollution Multiplier > 2 × Max(0.25, the Pollution Multiplier / 0.5) if the Pollution Multiplier < 0.5	Yes
		Transform Phages researched	Regions may lose a layer of Fallout after sufficient investment	No
Knowledge	1	None	Education by 0.005 × 8.5 / Education if Education < 8.5 × 12 / Education if Education > 12	Yes
			Cohesion centered by 0.01	Yes
Government	1	None	Government by 0.001 per Education	Yes
Unity	2	None	Cohesion by Max(0.025, 0.1 - 0.005 × Education - 0.005 × Government)	Yes
			Education 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
Military	1	Found Military Completed in Nation	Miltech by 0.00125 / Miltech × Best Human Nation's Miltech	No
Oppression	1	Found Military Completed in Nation	Government by 0.0025	Yes
			Unrest by 0.1 - Government / 100	Yes
		Found Military Completed in Nation and >5 Government	Cohesion by 0.025 × (Government - 5)	Yes
Spoils	1	None	Inequality by 0.0025 + 0.001 per Mining Region + 0.001 per Oil Region	Yes
			Government by 0.0005	Yes
			For each faction that owns any control points: Apply Propaganda of strength - 0.125 × (Education + Government) × fraction of control points owned by faction	No
			Pollution Multiplier by 0.0005 + 0.0005 per Mining Region + 0.0005 per Oil Region	Yes
			Greenhouse Gases	Yes
		Control Points Not Cracked	Each Faction's Money by (5 × IP + 5 per Mining Region + 5 per Oil Region + 2.5 × (10 - Government)) × fraction of control points owned by faction	No
Funding	1	None	Annual Money Production by 10 + (the nation's GDP in billions)^0.25 / 2, rounded to the nearest integer	No
Boost	2	Found Space Program Completed in Nation	Annual Boost Production by 0.4 - (Launch Facility Latitude / 250)	No
Mission Control	25	Found Space Program Completed in Federation	Mission Control by 1	No
Found Space Program	50	None	Annual Boost Production by 0.1	No
Found Military	40	None	Set Miltech to the Max of: 2 Worst Federation Member's Miltech - 0.3 Worst Ally's Miltech - 0.3 Worst Human Nation's Miltech	No
Build Army	60	Found Military Completed in Nation >(5 + 25 × Armies) Population in Millions Has a non-colony Region without its own Army	Builds an Army	No
			Metal and Noble Metal Market Prices	No
Build Navy	100	Found Military Completed in Nation >4 Control Points, or 3 Control Points and >40000 GDPPC Has an Army without its own Navy	Attaches Navy to an Army	No
			Metal and Noble Metal Market Prices	No
Develop Atomic Bomb	80	None	Strategic Nuclear Barrages by 1	No
			Fissile 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 Barrages by 1	No
			Fissile Market Prices	No
Space Defenses	25 to 100 (scaled by region size)	Trans-Interface Warfare researched	Builds a Space Defense Facility	No
Build Exofighter	10	Exoatmospheric Fighters researched Has a Region not at Maximum Exofighters	Builds an Exofighter	No

Diversity Bonus

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

Priority	Diversity Multiplier
Economy	25%
Welfare	10%
Environment	10%
Knowledge	10%
Government	10%
Unity	10%
Military	10%

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 Economy, 1 pip in Welfare, and 1 pip in Spoils, for a total of 5 pips. Then:

• Economy adds a diversity bonus of 25% × 3 ÷ 5 = 15%.
• Welfare adds a diversity bonus of 10% × 1 ÷ 5 = 2%.
• Spoils adds no diversity bonus, because it is not a nation building priority.

Thus:

• Economy receives a diversity bonus of 2% (because it cannot receive the 15% from itself).
• Welfare receives a diversity bonus of 15% (because it cannot receive the 2% from itself).
• Spoils receives a diversity bonus of 15% + 2% = 17%.

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

So in practice, the bonus is really too small to matter much. It is neat that it exists, but you should not invest in priorities that you don't actually need just for the small diversity bonus, it is not worth it.

Direct Investment

Direct Investment allows a faction to purchase Investment Points in a certain priority with Money, Influence, and/or Ops. The number of Investment Points that may be purchased each calendar year in any nation is capped at 12 × (Population 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	Money Cost	Influence Cost	Ops Cost
Economy	GDPPC Increase Per Completion × Population in Millions / Required IP	25	0
Welfare	360000 / 67 × Inequality Decrease Per Completion × Population in Millions / Required IP	100	0
Environment	150000 × Pollution Multiplier Decrease Per Completion × (Population / 50 million) ^ 0.35 / Required IP	100	0
Knowledge	625 / 41 × Population in Millions / (Population / 50 million) ^ 0.35 / Required IP	100	0
Government	150000 × Government Increase Per Completion × (Population / 50 million) ^ 0.35 / Required IP	300	0
Unity	400 × (Population / 50 million) ^ 0.35 / Required IP	300 / Required IP	0
Oppression	0	50 × Max(1, Government) × Required IP / (Population / 50 million) ^ 0.35	30 / (1 + Min(2, Miltech / 10))
Funding	0	5 × Funding Increase Per Completion / Required IP	0
Found Space Program	2800 / Required IP	2500 / Required IP	0
Boost	1250 / Required IP	100 / Required IP	0
Mission Control	2500 / Required IP	800 / Required IP	0
Found Military	2000 / Required IP	2000 / Required IP	1500 / Required IP
Military	250 × Miltech / Required IP	250 / Required IP	30 × Miltech / Required IP
Build Army	10000 × Miltech / Required IP	3000 / Required IP	2000 × Miltech / Required IP
Build Navy	1200 × Miltech / Required IP	3000 / Required IP	1500 × Miltech / Required IP
Develop Atomic Bomb	30000 / Required IP	3000 / Required IP	300 / Required IP
Nuclear Weapons	5000 / Required IP	1500 / Required IP	150 / Required IP
Space Defenses	2500 / Required IP	800 / Required IP	600 / Required IP
Build Exofighter	1000 / Required IP	200 / Required IP	150 / Required IP

Direct Investment Cost Multipliers

Category	Conditions	Money Cost Multiplier	Influence Cost Multiplier	Ops 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 Not Funding	1	0.5	1
Nation Ownership	Not Cracked	1	1 - 0.5 × Fraction of Control Points Owned	1
Control Point CP Cost	Not Alien Nation Not Funding	1	0.1 × Single Control Point CP Cost	1
National Priority Bonuses	Not from Federation Not from Diversity	1 / (1 + Bonus)	1 / (1 + Bonus)	1 / (1 + Bonus)
Federation Bonus	Economy Priority Only	1 / (1 + Bonus)	1 / (1 + Bonus)	1 / (1 + Bonus)
Nation Mining Regions	Build Army and Build Navy Priorities Only	1 / (1 + 0.05 per Mining Region)	1 / (1 + 0.05 per Mining Region)	1 / (1 + 0.05 per Mining Region)

Elites

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

Nations with completed Build Army priority

Nation	Armies	Navies
United States of America	6	6
China	4	2
Russia	3	1
India	3	0
France	1	1
United Kingdom	1	1
Egypt	1	0
Iran	1	0
Israel	1	0
North Korea	1	0
Pakistan	1	0
South Korea	1	0
Turkey	1	0

Nations with completed Space Program priority

The following nations at start have completed at least one Space Program priority:

Nation	Mission Control Facilities (Mission Control)	Launch Complexes (Boost)
United States of America	Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (3) Goddard Space Flight Center (1) Kennedy Space Center (1) JPL Spaceflight Operations (1)	Launch Complex 39 (20) Vandemburg Air Force Base (5) Wallops Flight Facility (2)
China	Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center (2)	Xichang Launch Center (7.5) Jiuquan Launch Center (3) Taiyuan Launch Center (3) Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site (1.2)
Russia	Roscosmos Mission Control Center (3)	Plesetsk Cosmodrome (7.5) Vastochny Cosmodrome (0.8) Yasny Cosmodrome (0.5)
India	Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (2)	Satish Dhawan Space Centre (1.2)
France	Toulouse Space Centre (1)	Centre Spatial Guyanais (13.5)
Japan	Tsukuba Space Center (1)	Tanegashime Space Center (5)
Germany	Columbus Control Centre (1)
Benelux	European Space Research and Technology Centre (1)
Kazakhstan		Baikonur Cosmodrome (30)
Israel		Tel Aviv Launch Facility (0.1)
Iran		Semnan Spaceport (0.1)
New Zealand		Mahia Launch Complex (0)
North Korea		Tangchang-dong Space Launch Center (0)
South Korea		Naro Space Center (0)

Nations with completed Nuclear Weapons priority

The following nations at start have completed at least one Nuclear Weapons priority:

Nation	Strategic Nuclear Barrages
Russia	30
United States of America	28
China	3
France	3
United Kingdom	3
Pakistan	2
India	2
Israel	1
North Korea	1
South Africa	0

Control Points

Control Points represent key nodes of political and economic power in a nation. The number of control points is set by the fourth root of the nation's GDP: max(round(((GDP in billions)^0.25)/2),6).

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.

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.

Once a faction has accumulated a sufficient amount of control in multiple nations, additional control points cost influence per month to maintain, and Crackdown and Purge missions against the faction's control points will receive a bonus. The cost increases with the more control points a faction owns, and the size of the economy of each nation the faction owns control in. Control points that have sustained a Crackdown do not cost any influence to maintain.

When a faction is over the control point capacity, agents from other factions get a bonus operation strength against the control points of this faction. The bonus strength is 0.333 per 1 point over the capacity (+1 strength per every 3 points over the capacity). Missions that get this bonus are: Crackdown, Purge, Enthrall Elites, and Dominate Nation.

Every nation has between 1 and 6 control points, depending on their GDP. The "cost against cap" to hold the entire nation is equal to GDP ^ 0.6 / 2, divided up equally among the control points.

Each faction will receive a fraction of funding, research, boost, mission control and spoils money produced by the nation. That fraction is equal to a proportion of controlled CPs versus all CPs of a nation.

If there are Armies controlled by the nation, getting control of CP may also grant you direct control of said Armies. CPs with Armies attached to them are shown with yellow star in a green hexagon symbol next to them. If there is more than one Army attached to a control point then the number of attached Armies is shown over the symbol.

To gain control over a neutral CP, one usually performs a successful Control Nation mission with one of their Councilors. Under normal circumstances, in nations with over 1 CP, executive CP can only be controlled if you already have a point in a nation and it is the last CP to be taken. If every nation has all of their CPs controlled by factions, then the Control Nation mission becomes unavailable. In that case you would need to perform a successful Purge mission on an enemy controlled CP.

To increase Purge success chances, it is recommended to conduct Crackdown on these CPs first. Another alternative to Control Nation is Coup 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'Etat has a higher success chance in nations with high Unrest, so Increase Unrest missions can be very helpful.

One more alternative is to simply use war. When armies conquer a nation's capital 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 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	Allows Set National Policy missions. Allows setting Nation allies and rivals. Gives full control of Nation's Nukes. Gives full control of Nation's Exofighters. Gives full control of Nation's choices in response to Events. Gives full control of Nation's choices in response to incoming requests for joining wars, allying, and federating.
2nd	≥5 Government	Legislature	If Faction also owns the Executive, then +3 Bonus Defense against all Purge and Dominate Nation Missions targeting the Executive. Otherwise, the faction gains +3 Bonus Attack on its Purge Missions targeting the Executive.
	≥6 Education and ≥7 Cohesion	Party	+3 Bonus Defense against all Purge and Dominate Nation Missions targeting each non-Executive control point owned by the Faction. +3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Purge Missions targeting the each non-Executive control point.
	≥6 Education and <7 Cohesion	Oligarchs	If Faction also owns the Executive, then +3 Bonus Defense against all other factions' Coup Missions targeting the Nation. +3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Coup Missions targeting the Nation.
	Else	Aristocracy	+20% Nation Spoils Money Output for Faction.
3rd	<5 Government	Security Apparatus	+3 Bonus Defense against all Extract Councilor Missions targeting councilors that are detained by the Faction within the Nation. +3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Assassinate, Crackdown, Detain, and Extract Councilor Missions within the Nation.
	≥7 Education	Mass Media	+3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Public Campaign and Dominate Nation missions within the Nation.
	Else	Religion	+15 Propaganda Strength for Unity Priority's Propaganda for Faction. (Affected by Population Scaling.)
4th	<4 Government	National Industries	+3 Bonus Defense against all Hostile Takeover Missions targeting orgs owned by the Faction within the Nation. +3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Hostile Takeover Missions within the Nation.
	<3.5 Inequality and >10000 GDPPC and >7 Education	Trade Unions	Orgs based in the same nation cost 20% less influence for Faction.
	Else	Corporations	Orgs based in the same nation cost 20% less money for Faction.
5th	>6 Cohesion	Bureaucracy	+3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Control Nation missions within the Nation.
	>3 Cohesion	Regional Authorities	+3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Stabilize Nation missions within the Nation.
	>1 Cohesion or <7 Unrest	Identity Blocs	+3 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Increase Unrest missions within the Nation.
	Else	Warlords	+6 Bonus Attack on the Faction's Increase Unrest missions within the Nation.
6th	>9 Government and >9 Education	Knowledge Sector	+5% Nation Research Output for Faction.
	>6 Cohesion and Nation has a rival or war enemy which has at least the same number of control points.	Defense Sector	Faction's Armies that belong to this Nation gain +0.005 daily heal rate.
	>6 Government and >7 Education	Financial Sector	+5% Nation Funding Money Output for Faction.
	Nation has at least 1 Oil or Mining Region	Extractive Sector	Nation Spoils Money Output for Faction increased by 2 × Number of Oil or Mining Regions × Number of Control Points owned by Faction in Nation. Not affected by Aristocracy bonus.
	Else	Agricultural Sector	Nothing.