Government Simulator 1.1 Update

Government Simulator update 1.1 is now available.

This update adds a new country to the simulation, a new supported language, makes some minor changes to the simulation, and improves other things here and there. Details:

• New country: United Kingdom

  You can now also try to take command and change the fate of Great Britain in Government Simulator. The UK has some unique challenges, all as always based on real world economic data. This was the country most people wanted to have added into the game, so this was done now. Tip for playing: Note that the UK has a relatively high GDP-to-Dept ratio, so it is a good idea to reduce this in the beginning by either increasing certain taxes or to reduce spending (or by other methods like introducing a high quantitative easing rate), otherwise it will be very difficult to handle this country in the beginning of the game.

• New supported language: Italian

  You can now select italian as language in the game, if your operating system is italian, it should be automatically selected.

• Coporate Tax Income Factor

  The simulation now has a new factor named 'FactorCoporateTaxIncome' which is set to default to 1.0, but makes it possible to model more countries more easily, especially when modding. See the manual for details.

• New currency: GBP

  The game now supports the pound sterling (official currency of the United Kingdom) as currency, you can select this in the settings dialog. This is also the default currency when you play the UK scenario, of course.

• Compulsory Vaccination Change

  The value set in Compulsory Vaccination laws now has a slightly different influence on Public Health depending on Government spending budgets.
• Adjusted a few minor values in the simulation to make the model work in some edge cases more realistically.
• Fixed a bug where Government Simulator would not display the game manual on certain system configurations.

Thanks again for all the feedback so far! Hope you'll like this update. If you want specific new features in a future update, don't forget to post this into the discussion forum (the comments section below this news is a bit difficult to use for discussions). Further feedback is welcome as always!