The important places in the capital city are your media building, scientific partnership center, prison, opposition building, and, most important, the government building. The government building is where you keep your staff: the Head of State, the interior minister, the foreign minister and your extra diplomats.
Click on the White House.
In the selection window, select the President.
In the Action buttons, click on Open Personal File.
Read Personal File. Note the President's popularity. This is influenced by the risk of uprising, scandals and taxes, among other things. Fortunately no scandals have been discovered. The President's hobbies are mentioned at the end. Close Personal File.
Select the interior minister. He is wearing a dark blue suit. The gauge underneath displays his loyalty.
Click on the light bulb in the selection window on the right.
The gauge now displays his skill. The interior minister advises you on the management of the different sectors: Energy and Raw materials, Agribusiness, Industry, Technology and Arms.
In addition to his advisory role, he is responsible for sending the riot police in when things get rough and for protecting you against sabotage by enemy agents. The man in the light blue suit is the foreign minister. The foreign minister also gives advice, and is responsible for the skills of the diplomats created during his term in office.
The men in gray are diplomats. Select one.
In addition to loyalty and skill, diplomats have an espionage parameter. Click on the gun underneath the light bulb to display it. This represents their skill on espionage missions.
The first thing you're going to need to do is start making things. You have money, a workforce and natural resources. All of these have to be put to work so you can start trading and making money.
Click on the Money icon to display your finance table.
Under Labor you can see your total workforce and the number of available workers. To build a production site or research lab, you need one worker. You have 10 workers, so, with sufficient funds, you can build 10 installations. Close the finance table.
Click on a mine west of the city. The mine's production and stocks are displayed in the selection window.
Click on Build in the action buttons.
Click on Factory.
Click on the television icon. Now you can build a television factory. Find a spot on the map where the factory goes green, and click.
Look around the countryside for a sign showing coal. All natural resources are indicated by these signs, and can only be exploited on these sites.Click on Build.
Click on Factory.
Click on Mine. Build as for a factory: find where the mine goes green, and click.
Click on the factory icon next to the radar to the right of the selection window. The radar now shows your production sites. The second button displays your spies and the third your research labs. The radar is also a shortcut to take you anywhere you like in the country.
Another shortcut: hit H on your keyboard to go to the capital city.
To make your sites more productive, you need to discover new technologies. Research labs look for the technologies which will boost your production. Your interior minister will tell you about this.
Select the interior minister.
Click on Consult minister.
You need to build a research lab. Close the window.
Click on Build.
Click on Research lab.
Build the Research lab.
Open the Research table. You can carry out research in any sector. Clicking on the sector buttons displays the technologies discovered for the production sites displayed.
Click on Industry.
Click on Start new research in this sector. The Currently researching display is activated and the gauge displays the progress of the research. On the right-hand side of the screen at the bottom, the monthly cost is displayed.
Close the window.
When you start trading with people, your contracts stand a greater chance of success if you are diplomatically active, either through improved relations with other countries or through diplomatic pressure. You will also need diplomacy points to vote, so it is essential to build embassies quickly.
Click on the Japanese flag to go to Tokyo.
Click on Build.
Click on Embassy. Embassies are built in parks. When the embassy goes green, you can build. Three diplomats are automatically assigned to new embassies although they can be redistributed as necessary. The diplomats' skill depends on the efficiency of the foreign minister.
Diplomats work on improving relations with their host country and earning diplomacy points. Diplomacy points are awarded monthly according to the diplomats' skill.
Click on the World map button to the right of the radar.
Click on the UK.
This displays the UK's stocks in the selection window. The surpluses are displayed on the left and the deficits on the right. Click on any product to display the exact quantity on the top line.
Click on the US.
Click on the International relations button to display your friends (in green) and enemies (in red). Click on other countries to display their international relations.
Click on the Diplomacy button to display your diplomatic staff.
The Research button displays your scientific partnerships and the Allegiances button displays your military partnerships.
Click on the American flag.
Click on the government building.
Click on the interior minister.
Consult the interior minister.
You need to upgrade.
Go to the Research table.
Your new technology has been added to your list of discovered technologies. Click on it.
Click on Upgrade.
Close the table.
Now for the more sinister, and fun side of foreign relations: spying. Your diplomats can be turned into spies, and while as spies they will no longer earn diplomacy points for you, they can nevertheless make themselves extremely useful.
Click on the Chinese flag.
Build an embassy in Beijing.
Double-click on a diplomat.
Take him to the government building. He turns into a spy.
Click once to drop him.
Select him in the selection window.
In the Action buttons, click on Corrupt minister.
Select the Interior minister.
Select the amount you wish to spend and confirm.
Making contracts with other countries improves your relations with them, and enables you to meet domestic demand. Here's how it works:
Japan has sent you a contract proposal. Click on it, next to the Japanese flag, to open it.
The products are listed down the left-hand side of the contract. Your stocks are displayed next to the products. If you are in deficit, the number appears in red. The arrows in the central column indicate whether the contract proposes to buy or sell.
Japan is proposing to sell 40 mobile phones and 35 units of coal. They want to buy 40 units of rice. The Japanese have unfortunately discovered a scandal, which they could reveal to the Press if you don't buy it. They also want $500 in cash.
You don't want to accept this contract: click on Make counterproposal.
In addition to selling rice, offer to sell some missiles: say, 10. You don't want to buy 40 mobile phones just yet, so offer to buy 30 instead. Now bring the Cash to balance down to $250.
Send the counterproposal.
Click on the contract icon next to the British flag.
