v2.5.0 - Voices of the Nation

The society update — A booming economy no longer buys social peace.

• Interest groups with real teeth — thirteen societal blocs (farmers, labor, business, public workers, pensioners, students, clergy, the officer corps and more) now judge you on WHO your policies favor, not on whether GDP is up. Cut corporate taxes while farm budgets shrink and the countryside turns on you — even in a boom. • Voices of Dissent — twelve new decision cards in escalating pairs. Ignore the farmers' tractor protest for a season and the harvest is withheld: food production dips, prices rise, the streets fill. Unions can shut the country down; snubbed investors take their money abroad; the Grey March comes for pension cuts. • Anger is fast, forgiveness is slow — winning back an aggrieved bloc takes months of changed policy and real concessions. Every bloc shows its top grievance in the Interest Groups tab, with an alert when one turns against you. • Military progression, explained — the Defense Industry screen now shows exactly what each system needs for its next generation with your live numbers (a display bug kept the generation column frozen — fixed), and a new "How Military Strength Grows" panel shows what's driving or dragging your strength and how fast it's climbing. Field Guide entry included. • 198 decision cards total.