Promises come due, second terms remember, and budgets can be lost in any year. - The midterm campaign's promises now come back: the party machine sends its bill, a press officer leaks the folder, and the spending pledge is judged against your next budget. - A second term has a memory. The direction you set at the inauguration shapes the years that follow, and a new epilogue answers what election night decided. - The Appropriations Act is fought every year of the term, not only at its end. - A tax raise costs you every year you hold it, and the money it raises is a reserve you can spend. A tax cut has to be paid for. - A long second term wears on public approval. Keep winning the country back or face a recall. - Election night tells you how close the midterm came. - Your opening choices now pay off within the free chapters. - An optional weekly reminder, offered after the prologue. - Many fixes to endings, scandals, the officer corps and saved games, including resuming on the screen you were reading.

The Mandate now makes full use of the iPad. - Play in any orientation, side by side with another app in Split View, or in a resizable window with Stage Manager. - On larger windows the Morning Brief, decisions, the Assembly, The Government, the Budget, Records and the Dossier open into two panes, so you can weigh a choice against the numbers it moves without scrolling. - The Coalition Board, Military Affairs and the Legacy Gallery lay out as grids that use the whole screen. - The iPhone layout is unchanged.

Restore Purchases now applies the loyalty grant and an offline launch no longer skips it.

NEW Move a sitting minister to another portfolio without sacking them. A cabinet that works well together buys you extra room when you whip a vote. One clear close control on every panel, sheet and card in the game. A budget that puts the money into the courts is now recognised as its own priority, with its own consequences and its own late term callback. A minister who leaves under a cloud stays gone. The game no longer puts them back. COALITION AND ELECTIONS Faction trust decays toward each party's natural position every week, so a coalition has to be kept rather than bought once. Pleasing one bloc costs you with its two rivals, and a party you have taken for granted says so while there is still time. The midterm moves on your legislative record and the campaign you ran instead of a roll of the dice, and a bloc that stands apart from the chamber gains or loses real seats. THE ASSEMBLY Each party holds a wedge as wide as its seat share. A tap in the chamber resolves to the nearest seat, with a floor sized for a fingertip. The chamber keeps its height inside a scrolling page instead of collapsing. The hemicycle reads correctly with VoiceOver. The word division is explained the first time you meet it. THE GOVERNMENT The Government opens on your roster, not on an appointment sheet. The replace sheet names the minister who holds the post and counts the candidates left. A ministry that has run out of names can recover its bench. The reshuffle cooldown is enforced once, in the rules, rather than separately by two buttons. Every budget line names the minister who answers for it. The caretaker government is seated once at the start rather than refilled behind you every week. Put a ministry off at the formation and it comes back to you later, with the cost of the empty chair spelled out, instead of standing vacant in silence. SCANDAL A scandal you never answer now resolves on its own. The story runs without your framing, at a worse price, and you are told it happened. One unanswered scandal no longer blocks every other scandal for the rest of your term. THE ARMY The generals' ultimatum can no longer be crowded off the calendar by ordinary business, so that arc plays out when you have earned it. ENDINGS The ending you are given now reflects the founding you actually chose rather than the protests that happened around you. A quiet reformer and a democratic reformer are told apart properly, so a term spent building democratic health is recognised as one. FIXES An event whose situation has changed is re-read before it reaches you, and again when you resume a save, so you are never asked about something that no longer applies. Controller and keyboard input is scoped to the screen you are on, so back always means the thing in front of you. All six header destinations open and close the same way. Save and Quit works from every in run screen on Mac. iCloud saves sync more reliably. Content that referred to a condition nothing sets is now rejected before it ships.

This release reworks how approval behaves, opens up the final chapter, and fixes a long list of things besides. Nearly all of it came out of running thousands of simulated presidencies and finding the places where the game was quietly lying to you. APPROVAL IS A RESOURCE, NOT A COUNTDOWN Approval could only ever fall. Across a full term, no run ever finished above where it started, and most hit their peak in the first two weeks and drained from there. That made the most visible stat on your dashboard a timer rather than something you govern. Approval is now earnable: decisions the public likes actually pay, the price of the unpopular ones is charged honestly, and a presidency can end more popular than it began. THE COUP ACTUALLY ARRIVES The army walked you up four rungs of warnings, the brief told you units were moving without authorization, and then nothing ever happened. The attempt now books its own week and plays out in full, along with its resolutions, its aftermath, and the endings that require having been removed by force. CHAPTER 5 HAS ROOM FOR WHAT IS WRITTEN IN IT The final chapter holds twenty seven events, three multi part arcs and two bills, and it used to give you roughly three decisions before the game ended. It is now seven sessions instead of three, so the arcs you have been carrying since the middle of your term actually pay off. ENDINGS THAT TELL THE TRUTH Losing office no longer reads as a triumph. Impeachment, a no confidence vote, a coup or fiscal collapse now carry through to your overall rating and the historian's summary instead of only the political ending, and the end screen says plainly that the term was cut short. Governing under permanent martial law is no longer filed as Democratic Pragmatist. FIXES The Morning Brief and whip room headers stay pinned in place. Their controls no longer scroll off the top of the screen. Finishing a presidency now closes the save, so the title screen stops offering Continue on a run you already ended. When another bill owned the week your budget reached the floor, the vote could resolve on its own with no card and no trip to the whip room. Contested floor days now appear properly and can be whipped. In the free opening act, your Appropriations Act now always reaches its floor vote before the trial ends.

You told us the free trial was too short. You were right. This update makes it about three times longer and, more importantly, makes it the actual game. A LONGER FREE TRIAL The free portion used to be three weeks and three decisions. It is now the whole opening act, around ten weeks in office. Nothing was taken away from anyone: this is new free content. AND A FREE TRIAL WITH SYSTEMS IN IT Inside the free portion you now run a legislative docket, work the whip room, spend concessions on the Coalition Board, and write a full national budget across six ministries that goes to a floor vote you can lose. Your early decisions come back at you before the trial is over. A CABINET You now appoint ministers and they hold portfolios. They argue, they remember how you treated them, and they answer for what you decide. THE ARMY Command loyalty is tracked on its own, apart from public approval. Let it fall far enough and there is a path to a coup, with warnings before it. THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS The free portion now ends on an assessment of your term so far rather than a wall: six dimension ratings, weeks governed, decisions taken, bills passed, where the chamber stands, and a historian's read on how it is going. You can share it. SHARING FOR EVERYONE The weekly front page card is no longer locked behind a purchase. Anyone can publish their headlines. Also in this release: legislative votes and bill passage, the annual budget and fiscal cycle, a much wider spread of events across a playthrough, impeachment you can see coming, and fixes to the endings so every one of them is reachable.

Two add ons go on sale for the first time in this version, and if you already own the full campaign, both are yours free. THANK YOU FOR BUYING EARLY Everyone who bought the full campaign before this update gets the Cabinet Pass and the Wartime Cabinet at no charge, permanently. There is nothing to redeem and nothing to tap. Open the game and they are already unlocked. Your purchase follows your Apple Account, so it survives reinstalling or moving to a new device. CABINET PASS Alternate portraits, the Cabinet Noir theme that now repaints every screen in the game, expanded advisor flavor lines, additional save slots, and the Supporter sigil. Cosmetic only. WARTIME CABINET Lead the country through an active war. An alternate opening, new advisors, new chain arcs, new endings, and a wartime balance overlay that tightens economic and approval pressure. FREE TO TRY The prologue is free to play from start to finish, and the game now says so at first launch, on the title screen, and at the end of a run.

Fixed locked content that could not be purchased. The Cabinet Pass portraits, the Cabinet Noir theme, and the Wartime Cabinet story pack now stay hidden until they are actually available to buy.

1.1.0 brings the Social Sharing System. From the Legacy screen, tap Publish your record to export your ending as a share-worthy image with a universal link back to the game. Choose Feed or Story format, and save it to Photos or send it anywhere. Share weekly headlines, pivotal decisions, and your coalition standing. Prologue runs produce a Classified variant that honors what you did while inviting friends to play the full term. Also in this release: - Fixed a rare crash saving share cards to Photos. - Tuned typography so cards read cleanly on every feed. Five factions. One chair. The record you leave behind.