Low Loyalty Effect: News anchors start using "forbidden" words or showing clips of the protests.
Low Loyalty Effect: Passports aren't issued, taxes aren't collected, and government emails go unanswered.
Player Action: Organize "Work-to-Rule" strikes (doing the bare minimum to legally stall the system). bloodless revolution
Player Action: Orchestrate targeted boycotts of regime-linked monopolies.
Player Action: Leak evidence of corruption to sympathetic low-level editors. Low Loyalty Effect: News anchors start using "forbidden"
If you are too passive, the Bureaucracy loses faith in your ability to lead, and the movement fizzles out. Why this works:
Low Loyalty Effect: Capital flight begins; business leaders issue "calls for dialogue." taxes aren't collected
Player Action: "Fraternization" campaigns—giving flowers or food to soldiers to humanize the protestors. The "Tension" Mechanic