'Incorporation' of a state is a permanent choice of declaring a state an official core part of your nation, thereby taxing the population in exchange for extending all your Institutions to them. If you're a militaristic superpower who aggress your way across a continent, you're going to have a hard time extending all these guaranteed government services to your newly annexed lands. This is pretty cheesy and creates a disconnect between the political gameplay and the economic gameplay.Īnother, related, aspect is that Bureaucracy is intended to discourage sprawl and reward countries who choose to build tall.

If we instead had a Police Station building and a Poor House building then the P-Bs would be pleased once the Laws that permits you to build them are passed, but you're under no obligation to build and pay for them. If the Petit-Bourgeoisie are upset at the lack of Police and Poor Houses to keep the rabble off the streets, they'll be pleased when you enact a Law that enable these Institutions, and once enabled you have to pass a Law to abolish it to get rid of it and its administrative costs.

The foremost of them is that enacting a Law is a promise. Buildings can require Laws in order to be constructed and have Production Methods that can only be turned on during different Laws, so all of the functionality in the current system can be ported over to the Buildings system. A modder could replace any Institution in the game with the equivalent set of Buildings with no adverse side effects in a couple of hours. Furthermore, Buildings can take varied input goods (such as medicine for hospitals and small arms for police stations) and require varied Pop professions, such that building Hospitals could employ more Academics (Doctors) than Bureaucrats, and so on.

Institutions have an effect on states, and Buildings can be scripted to have the exact same effect on states. There is nothing fundamental in the game's core mechanics that prevents this. 'As it's come up a few times I want to address the feedback that certain Institutions, like schools and hospitals, are more suited to being Buildings than nation-wide Institutions. Iachek said something interesting, I will post it here

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