After winning the latest version, I wanted to post some of my musings about different issues in the game and what I'd change. This isn't meant as 'what I want the game to be', but rather a seed for discussion.
Taxes
Liberals support higher/more progressive taxes not for the heck of it, but to fund actual things, like health, education, welfare and anti-poverty programs.
Consequently, a country with scarce taxation will be a country that saves on such services.
C+: the 'free clinic' becomes a 'slum clinic' which heals people much more slowly and has a 5% chance per week of giving them infection that will lower their juice.
C: no change
ML no change
L: using the university hospital becomes free, 1/3 transients and 1/6 prostitutes and gang members turn into 'ex-' versions of themselves
L+: 2/3 transients and 1/3 prostitutes and gang members turn. Maybe let non-wanted LCS members receive a small amount of money every month?
Abortion
The LCS could get in the bussines of underground abortions! They'd come under the illegal fundraising and work similar to prostitution. The amount of customers would depend on how conservative the laws would be, with L+ having no customers at all and L very little. Each customer would prompt an intelligence + first aid check from the abortion doctor. Results could be:
critical failure: mother and baby die, their corpses end up in your safehouse, doctor loses juice and gets criminal rap.
failure: abortion issue is influenced negatively a bit, doctor gets criminal rap and gets no money.
success: abortion issue is influenced positively a bit, you get some money.
There would be a chance of the abortionist getting arrested and trials involving abortion could strongly influence the public opinion, but in either direction!
Animal Research
All that mad science is supposed to do something, right? So, while I'm not sure if this doesn't stray too far into sci-fi, I'm thinking:
C+: guard dogs get replaced with genetically engineered 'killer dogs' which are stronger and better at fighting.
Also, I don't know how possible it is to recruit the genetic monsters from the lab, but if it is, then having a critter like that while hijacking the studio in the TV station should automatically give a huge bonus to the issue. Behold the monster!
Police Behaviour
I don't have experience with the death squads, so some things I'll suggest might already be in.
C+: death squads should kill instead of arrest when you give up, like mercenaries. Also, if the previous issue is C+ as well, they could have killer dogs with them.
Also, it should be much more likely to be tortured and damaged while arrested or imprisoned if the issue is conservative.
If your liberal gets tortured when imprisoned but lasts to a trail and wins, you should get a chance to trail the officers that did the torturing two months later. Getting them convicted would affect the public opinion.
Privacy Rights
Privacy rights should make hacker actions generate less heat.(or do they already do?).
Death Penalty
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Nuclear Power
Once nuclear power is banned at L+, the nuclear plant location could become a 'closed nuclear plant' with nothing inside.
Pollution
Hybrid cars could appear at L+. Every car made after the year the issue went L+ would have a 75% chance of having 'hybrid' or 'eco' in it's name.(perhaps they'd be a bit slower, though?)
Worker Benefits
This issue already affects how many workers will be union, AFAIK? Anyway, maybe L and L+ would make 'labour activists' appear in factories, being workers but with extra heart, charisma, intelligence, writing, law and persuasion.
Homosexual Tolerance
No idea how it works right now! Can anyone spoil?
Immigration
If the issue is L+, do sweatshop workers still get deported?
Others - no thoughts yet!