The main determinant of the conscription laws are the needs associated with army recruitment.

Depending on the specific law, certain percentage value of total citizens will be available as human resources.

Note the requirements associated with specific laws before you decide to implement it.

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Note that you won’t be able to implement this law if you’ve selected Isolation through national focuses.

At the same time focus on the formation of the army, as well as its training.

Quite a large recruitable population bonus, but at the same time slightly longer training time of your units.

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Increased recruitable population comes with longer training times and slower construction speed.

Additionally, factory output will also be decreased.

Commentary:A law increasing the recruitable population to 20% of total population of the nation.

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Note the increased cost of implementing the law, which is twice higher than the previous laws.

Commentary:the last law associated with conscription.

Additionally, even harsher penalties are imposed on the construction speed and factory output.

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You should avoid using this law as much as you’ve got the option to.

The following laws are associated with trade.

The rule is simple - the more resources remain in circulation, the higher benefits you will receive.

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Different laws have different impacts on the economy.

Closed economy

Cannot export resources

At war.

One of the following must be a fact:

1.

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Current ruling party is Fascist

2.

Current ruling party is Communist

1.

Implemented idea: War Economy

2.

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Implemented idea: Total Mobilization

1.

This country is not USSR

2.

If this country is the Soviet Union it has not the ‘Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact’.

Closed economy, however, has its uses, especially during the time of war.

To implement this law you will need to meet a lot of different, quite harsh requirements.

You must also implement the laws stated in the table.

Limited Exports

Resources to market25%

Factory output+5%

Construction speed+5%

Research time-1%

1.

All of the following must be a fact:

2.

Thanks to a partial isolation you will be receiving additional modifiers associated with industrial and technological growth.

However, if you want to implement the law, you must meet a series of requirements.

Half of the total amount of resources manufactured in your country will be send to the market.

The law doesn’t have any requirements to be implemented and is one of the cheapest ones.

You don’t have to worry about it if you are focusing on developing your economy.

Implementing this law is a very expensive process, which is why you must think about doing so.

Specific laws come with additional requirements that define whether you will be able to implement them.

Early Mobilization

Consumer Goods Factories25%

Civilian Factory Construction Speed-10%

Military Factory Construction Speed-10%

3.

World tension higher than 5%.

Commentary:A reduced amount of factories manufacturing consumer goods.

Although it’s only a 5% reduction, it still gives more factories under your direct control.

The requirements that need to be met to implement the law are also crucial.

Partial Mobilization

Consumer Goods Factories20%

Military Factory Construction Speed+10%

Factory Conversion cost-10%

4.

World tension higher than 15%.

Commentary:In this case you could notice another reduction of the consumer goods factories.

However, you must meet the requirements to implement this law.

This is the recommended law for any nation, regardless of the situation on the map.

Total Mobilization

Consumer Goods Factories10%

Recruitable population-3%

Military Factory Construction Speed+30%

Factory Conversion cost-30%

1.

Any enemy country has at least 50% more factories than your own.

Commentary:One of the cheaper laws, but aside from beneficial modifiers it comes with a penalty.

It’s really hard to find a good moment to implement this law.

Through the government panel you’ve got the option to select up to three politicians to the government.

In each government you should use the following: 1 politician assigned to ideology and 2 to the economy.

As it was mentioned earlier, you should only use one ideology advisor at a time.

It all depends on what you currently need.

The remaining economy advisors are closely associated with war and military conflict.

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