The Population update. - Fixes the main menu returning to the start on every tap for players using a language other than English. POPULATION - A Population hub with nine tabs: overview, pyramid, family, education, health, pensions, migration, manpower and regions. Your people are now a system you run, not a number you watch. - Every nation has a real age pyramid, 18 cohorts of men and women that age week by week. Scrub 50 years ahead and watch what your policies do to it. - New population events: baby booms, brain drain, pension cliffs, youth bulges, refugee waves and pandemics that actually take lives. POLICY - Family policy: child benefits, parental leave, child care and housing move births for real reasons, and the cost of raising a child is its own driver. Birth caps and pronatalist laws for Classic games. - Education in tiers: primary, secondary and tertiary attainment, the gap for girls, teacher supply, foreign students and a GI Bill for veterans. - Pensions you can actually fix: retirement age, contribution rates and a funded pension pot. Raise the age and the street notices; leave it and the cliff arrives on schedule. MIGRATION AND MANPOWER - Migration with teeth: visa quotas, refugee offers, enforcement, integration and a backlash when newcomers arrive faster than a country can absorb them. Generous benefits draw illegal inflows and benefit fraud, and rivals can weaponize migration against you. - Manpower is a pool, not a slider: draft ages, reserves that decay, and veterans who remember a lost war. THE MAP - A Population lens on the world map (growth, median age, migration) and population and age views inside every country. - Regional population: cities pull people from the countryside, disasters push them out, and neglected regions get angry. Thanks for playing. I read every review and every bug report sent from Settings.

Trade, diplomacy and the map, rebuilt. TRADE - 87 real goods instead of 10, with markets that move on supply and demand. - Trade deals name the goods. Tariffs are set good by good. - Trade Ledger: your real growth from every deal, tariffs both ways, suppliers, customers and the straits they cross. - Surpluses build reserves and a wealth fund. Long deficits hit your currency. - Cartels, strategic stockpiles, food security and droughts. DIPLOMACY - Embassies, state visits and summits. - Treaties with any mix of terms, counteroffers and a Treaty Talks screen. - Mediate any war, issue ultimatums with no hidden roll, and settle incidents at the World Congress. - Spheres of influence and reliability: nations remember whether you keep your word. - Secondary sanctions, bloc votes and institutions you found with your bloc. - Run your bloc: expel members, change the dues, or disband it. THE MAP - A spinning globe with every lens on it. - New lenses: Wars, Blocs, Puppets, Supply and Spheres. - Every country has real regions. Zoom in or tap See inside. FIXES - Growth: investment now builds lasting potential, and a well-run economy can boom. The overheating cap that flattened good budgets is gone. - Energy: only nations with real oil and gas fields produce them, and oil no longer slides to the floor over a long game. - Small economies no longer show $0B. - The Budget's cash change now matches what the treasury really pays. - Month speed and a +1 Month step. - Justified wars wear on the public more slowly. - The commodity prices line shows which goods drive it. - Translations update on every launch. Thanks for playing. I read every review and every bug report sent from Settings.

The Arsenal update • Build a defense industry. Arms plants and a new Procurement budget line turn into real hardware: 12 strike systems from FPV drones to hypersonic glide weapons, and 6 layers of air defense. • Strike factories, power, ports, air defense, command, troops or cities. Every salvo flies through the enemy's defenses layer by layer, with dice, and the planner shows what each side spends before you launch. Cheap drones drain expensive interceptors. • Your defense industry climbs five tiers, from Importer to Frontier. No skipping the ladder. Buy, license or steal what you cannot build, and sell hardware at the risk of blowback. • Puppets host your arsenal, buy your hardware or build for you. Proxies fly your drones under their own flag; traceable kit gets you caught. Target folders, sabotage and stolen designs in the Scheme Room. • Supply chains bite back. Shortages, export controls and closed straits slow arms production everywhere. New crises: Supply Crunch, Strait Closure, Interceptors Running Out. • Air defense readouts on every nation, strike cards in your inbox, and a strike outlook from the Advisor. • New Easy difficulty: a softer world for the whole game, no coaching, not ranked. • Growth made clearer. Capacity limit and Above potential replace the old Overheating label, how much growth an economy can absorb now depends on how developed it is, and rich nations raise their potential through research and schooling. • The budget preview now shows your cash change per year with every cost included, and flags growth spending your economy cannot absorb. Thanks to everyone who wrote in. Keep the feedback coming.

Puppets and your language • Every screen, event and headline now reads naturally in all 17 languages. • Puppet nations: take a weaker country under your wing and run its economy, diplomacy and military from your own map. • Puppets have minds of their own. Push too hard and they stall, refuse or rise up — then it's on you to cut their aid, change their leader, tighten your grip or let them go. • The great powers keep puppets too, and their patrons give orders, get refused and hit back by the same rules you play by. • Lean on a loyal puppet's navy and nuclear umbrella, lock it into your bloc, run covert routes through it, and after a decade of loyalty absorb it peacefully. • Every control now tells you what it moves before you touch it. • Spare cash above 6% of GDP pays down your debt automatically. Turn that off in the Budget if you'd rather hold it. • Fewer interruptions: pick Everything, Fewer or Only decisions in Settings. Anything held waits for you in the feed. • Smoother on older phones, with a new Performance mode in Settings. • Wars are less lopsided: nations weigh who would actually answer a call to arms, and old sanctions wear off as they should. • Menu badges clear once you've read what's new.

4.4 is the depth update. The world now runs for centuries without falling apart. Build real industries and infrastructure. Run your central bank and your power grid. Pass laws in the new Statecraft mode, form unions that can become new nations, buy a struggling country outright, rename your nation. Your leader ages, faces elections and can die. Corruption, education, pensions and eras all matter now. Every game starts in a different world with three to five World Situations, there are five ways to win, every finished game writes a Chronicle you can continue, and World of the Week gives everyone the same world every Monday. New Dominance Pass subscription with everything included, no banner or pop-up ads and three free boosts a day. All-Access owners are now Lifetime Dominance Pass owners with a Founder badge. Thank you for playing.

The world now answers when you ask for help. Request aid from an ally or trade partner, as a grant or a loan, and in real distress take an IMF program with strings attached. Pacts hold. A partner that wants out gives notice first, you can shore the pact up, and walking out has a cost. A new setting keeps decision cards to your own nation. Season XP can now be earned at the end of a game by watching a short ad, always skippable.

You can now invest in other countries with your surplus treasury - if they default, then feel free to take them or their strategic assets in lieu of payment. Drill down deeper into your country's exportable goods. General bug fixes and UI improvements along the way.

PLAY ANYWHERE Remove Ads now includes full offline play. One purchase, no ads, and the game runs with no connection at all. Free play needs a connection. If you lose signal mid-game, the game pauses and waits; nothing is lost.

The world keeps moving while you are away. Come back to a briefing of what changed. Custom Start: pick any nation and set the starting conditions. Ironman: harder AI, more crises, one save, its own leaderboard. Advisor, free for everyone: war outlooks, economic forecasts, relations outlook and budget previews, all computed by the real game engine. Map palettes and flag frames. Battles: weight of numbers now decides. A much larger army wins more often and loses far fewer troops doing it. Relations: tap any nation's Relations panel to see exactly why they feel the way they do. Being on top no longer sours the world quite so fast. Season XP now also unlocks themes and Custom Start presets.

Minor polish pass on translations. More to come as more spots in need are identified.

Build, Trade, and Make Your Case Six new investment construction projects: Factory Belt, Deep-Water Ports, Highways and Grid, National Renewal, Green Transition, Digital Nation. Trade pacts now renew on their own while your partner still likes you. Turn it off per pact or in Settings. Declare war with a reason. Retaliation, coalition, liberation, or a preemptive strike: a credible case protects your standing with the rest of the world. Public diplomacy campaign: spend treasury and capital to improve how every nation sees you. Boosts show up when you need them: short on cash, readiness, or capital? Watch a short ad for the boost. Always optional. Fixes: reinforcements now reach a nation with no standing army, boost cooldowns survive a restart. Also performed another language pack pass on hard coded UI elements that have been getting documented as reports come in. Keep them coming, please and thank you!

* Fixed an unrest configuration that wasn't allowing it to decay when grievance pressure decreases. Not necessarily a bug, but definitely tuned to be unfriendly to the player to the point of frustration. This was also being affected by covert operations in hostile countries with no indicator to the player (somewhat intended since spying is secret...). Now unrest seeks to balance proportionally with live grievances. Ending a war, stopping support for allies in their own unpopular wars, and reducing military size/budget will quickly bring unrest under control for most players. * Auto-resume added so those pop ups no longer pause the clock after the popup is closed. You can still toggle auto resume off in the settings if you prefer to keep it.

Added more localizations for non-English users. There are still some areas that may leak English instead of your native language - please don't hesitate to use the contact developer or report a bug feature, in the settings page, to let me know if you spot anything that needs more translation work. Thanks for playing, and keep dominating!

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Play in your language. The whole game is now translated into 17 languages: Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Arabic, Persian and Hebrew. Not just the menus. Every crisis, every news report, every event. Tap the globe on the main menu to switch at any time. Arabic, Persian and Hebrew read right to left. Your allies can no longer drag you into wars. If you play a country in an alliance and one of your allies is invaded, the game used to sign you up for that war without asking. Those wars piled up over time and you could not get out of them. Now they ask, and you decide. Standing by an ally is worth something. Answer the call and they remember it. They trade with you on better terms, join your sanction coalitions, and share intelligence that makes your covert operations more likely to succeed. Refuse and you keep the peace, but you burn their trust, and push it far enough and they will end the alliance. If you have a language you would like added, use Report a Bug in Settings and tell us. We can add new languages without you needing to update the app.

Thanks to everyone using the Report a Bug button. This update exists because of you. Fixed The world no longer gangs up on you just for being big. Sanctions now need a real reason, trade partners and allies stay loyal, and old sanctions fade when relations improve. Conquering a country now actually gives you its resources. Take the oil fields, get the oil. Wars between other nations end sooner and rivals stop piling onto countries already fighting. New Own the world's shipping lanes. The Suez Canal, Strait of Hormuz, Panama Canal and four more now pay tolls to whoever controls them. Conquer the owner and the money is yours. Raise the fees or close them entirely. Your call. Invest your reserves in other countries and earn as they grow. Watch out for revolutions. A new Industry panel shows your economy's sectors changing as your investments take hold. Announcements on the main menu so I can keep you posted on bugs and fixes, plus a full version changelog. Keep the reports coming. I read every one and appreciate your support!

Bug introduced when opponent "ai" countries were allowed to start as many wars as they wished - who knew wars would be so expensive and all of the "ai" countries would burn through their GDP in a matter of years with all the carnage... :)

Splatting bugs. Find bug, splat bug. Thank you to the user(s) who have reported findings with me! I'm quite easy to reach if you, the player, identify something else you want to chat about!

THE CRISIS UPDATE The world you command is the real one, today. Now it never plays out the same way twice, and it remembers what you do. Breaking News. Sixty distinct world crises can erupt in any game: strait blockades, debt contagion, cyberattacks, pandemics, coups, water wars, and more. Each interrupts with a real decision and escalating stakes. Broker the peace, pay the toll, or run the blockade? Crisis Legacies. Every crisis leaves a lasting mark. Steady a nation through its worst and it rebuilds and remembers who helped. Let one burn out and the scar lingers for years. Track it all on the new World Legacies board. The World Fights Back. Climb toward number one and rivals take notice. The stronger you get, the harder the world pushes back, with coordinated sanctions, coalitions, and allies tempted away. Turtling to the top is now the tensest stretch of the game. Weekly Global Situation. The world runs a shifting mood, from Financial Turmoil to Energy Shock to Political Unrest, and crises lean into whatever grips the globe that stretch. Dealt Hand. Gamble on a random draw of three nations, each with its own challenge rating and score bonus. Harder draws pay off bigger. Domestic unrest. Your own people react to how you govern. Crushing taxes spark revolts, unpopular wars bring anti-war riots, pandemic lockdowns breed backlash, high inflation drives cost-of-living anger. Ease the cause and the streets calm; ignore it and protests become riots become an uprising that can topple your government, cost you standing, and fracture your hold over others. It hits your rivals too. Smarter rivals. Every AI nation now weighs war, trade, and supply as real strategic choices instead of acting on impulse, and they exploit each other's crises. Under the hood. Refreshed 2026 real-world economies, a deeper fiscal model where debt carries a credit-priced cost, and a more reproducible simulation for fair Challenges. Every crisis is seeded, so Weekly and Daily Challenge players all face the same unfolding world. Same real world. Never the same history twice.

The world just got competitive. National Dominance is now a living, global contest; the same deep economy, now with rivals who fight back. Daily Briefing - One world, the same for every leader, every day. Play the sprint, post your Ascendancy, share your result, and keep your streak alive. War Room - Enlist your nation and raid real players worldwide. Climb the seasonal ranked ladder, defend your borders, and strike back when someone comes for you. Blocs - Found or join an alliance, rally your allies, and drive your bloc up the standings together. New leaderboards - fight for #1 in your country, your region, and the world. Take your seat at the table.