Some stats on Domestic Policies, and by proxy player ideology

[Woot]

The game has a political policy quiz. Some players might use it for roleplay or not take it seriously, but let's assume most people put in real views, or at least roleplay something on their half of politics. 

In that case, some data on it would be interesting. 

 

I gathered data on the top 1500 nations in the game (stopping at around 500 nation score.)

 

Here are the numbers:

 

 

 

Moderates may be inflated, because moderate is the default setting if the player never changes it.

Of course, it's pretty common to get "moderate" on the quiz. Anybody who gets 'extreme' is probably joking or nuts.

 

 

 

 

Here's data by alliance, with everyone in the game at the top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The main thing to criticize with these numbers is whether enough people actually fill it out with something resembling their real views, and whether the quiz is good enough to assign people an ideology with much accuracy..

Edited November 12, 2016 by Woot

[Bezzers]

Hmm. Interesting stuff

[Thedark]

Anybody who gets 'extreme' is probably joking or nuts.

 

 

F u dude

 

But great stats

Edited November 12, 2016 by Thedark

[kalev60]

Nice work on making something out of pretty small in-game gadget. It was interesting to look at. 

[Calvin Coolidge]

Leftists will be thrown out!

[voidoid]

Leftists will be thrown out!

 

By . . .  all the other leftists?

[Donald Trump]

Leftists will be thrown out!

#RollCharmingFriends 

[Betulius]

Anybody who gets 'extreme' is probably joking or nuts.

 

Hey, I can be both. 

[Insert Name Here]

Very interesting stuff, Woot! In this case it's a shame some AAs are temporarily merged into TI, coz I'd be curious to see these stats for t$, Mensa, Guardian, etc.

[hadesflames]

I would say the views of players in a gov role should have a bit more impact in non-democratic alliances.

[Alex]

Neat! I like the analysis.

[Kid Winchell]

Social/Economic policies are not independent of each other, so you should make 3D plots too.

[Pertica]

Very interesting

[Vack]

Thats oddly interesting. It'does be interesting to see a post Treasure Island version too I suppose.

[Vanek26]

I do extreme left because it makes the tax rate 50% which helps with calculations on various things. 

[Kid Winchell]

I do extreme left because it makes the tax rate 50% which helps with calculations on various things. 

Tax rate is a purely cosmetic mechanic. You can completely ignore it if you want to.

[Vanek26]

Tax rate is a purely cosmetic mechanic. You can completely ignore it if you want to.

I'm completely aware of that. The numbers will always balance out between tax rate and average income. However, if your tax rate is 50% and thus the average income is 4.35 dollars than that means that each citizen is contributing $2.175 in taxation. Thus if you buy 100 infra, its easy to figure out that your gross income should go up by 21,750 dollars a day (Not perfect since your disease will likely go up a bit but yeah). 

 

[Rob Semloh]

Cornerstone didn't have the most conservative social average? Surprising.

 

Great stats!