Smooth ledgers — war costs were billed per war-week, and some months contain five of them: that made the monthly war bill (and Debt/GDP) visibly wobble. Billing is now day-exact, and any remaining month-to-month debt movement always has a findable cause in the debt report.
• True zero — a surplus that genuinely covers everything now takes Debt/GDP to 0.0% and keeps it there. (Your surplus was paying the debt off — late-month running costs were quietly re-borrowing after the payoff.)
• Lobby demands now show the way — every ask displays exactly where to act ("Society → Religion — Faith school funding slider") with a GO button that jumps you there, and the MET ✓ indicator actually lights up now.
• Vollständig auf Deutsch — the entire game is now available in German, covering every card, tooltip, and headline. Wählen Sie Deutsch in den Einstellungen!
• Every faction can take to the streets — all 13 society blocs were verified end-to-end: sustained dissatisfaction always produces protest pressure, an alert, and (for economic blocs) real damage to their own sector. Slow-burning anger counts the same as sudden collapse.
• 16 controls got real teeth — an automated audit of all 276 sliders and toggles in the game found 16 that were decorative. Police oversight, judicial ethics, trade-negotiation levers, workforce programs, the macroprudential buffer, strategic stockpiling, rail privatization and more now have verified monthly effects — each tooltip states the exact numbers.
• Ledger integrity, guaranteed — debt and Debt/GDP can no longer disagree for even a frame, anywhere in the simulation, and AI nations now judge your economy (and each other's) by live data instead of the game-start almanac.
• The housing bubble can be fought now — it was rigged: investor speculation inflated it unconditionally, and neither interest rates nor the capital buffer actually reached the housing market. All levers bite now, building programs cool prices immediately, deflating runs 3× faster than inflating by design, and the new BUBBLE WATCH panel shows exactly what's feeding the bubble and how hard each lever pulls. Ignore a maxed bubble for two years and the market corrects itself — painfully. Pop it with a brutal rate hike and mortgages default. Your call.