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Workers and Resources: Soviet Republicis a popular city-builder in which you are tasked with creating an ideal city in the mid-1900s during the Cold War era. While no militaristic aspect exists, you can still enjoy an in-depth economy and systematic city-building experience.
The core aspect of every city you build is the population. There are different kinds of populations with multiple social standings, jobs, and even loyalty. To help you understand population management better, here’s a detailed guide.
How To Increase Population
The key to increasing your city’s population is by having lots of residential buildings and some spare capital. When you initially start your playthrough, you won’t have any workers in your city, so you’ll have to firstbuild a small residential building and then invite immigrants.
Follow these steps to invite immigrants into your homes:
You can increase your city’s population significantlyin a few secondsby doing this.
There are three types of immigrants, workers being the basic ones whoemigrate from third-world countries. The other two kinds areeducated citizens from the Soviet Bloc. You can turn workers into experts by providing education.
How To Control Population
After you’ve got citizens in your residential buildings, you can also control your city’s population by filtering out the population based on various factors like’Loyalty', ‘Education’, and ‘Family Status’.
Filtering citizens using these parameters, is an effective way ofcreating segregated residential areas, focusing on low-loyalty citizens surrounded by Secret Policeorhigh-education citizens near important government buildings.
These filters can also be applied to education, where you can create low-education residential areas near schools. Similarly, moving larger families to low-cost apartments is another effective way of controlling your city’s population.
How To Decrease Population
Decreasing the population is quite simple, but does cost you to lose out on resources and construction time. You justneed to demolish the building to instantly reduce your city’s population. Follow these steps to demolish a residential building:
If you lose population even though you aren’t demolishing buildings, that means your citizens are unhappy and are leaving your city.
How To Keep Your Population Happy
There are two ways to retain your citizens, one is tokeep them happywhile the other is tomake them loyal to the Soviet Republic. If you want to keep your citizens happy, you need tocreate multiple structures to meet their needs. These include:
Build recreational buildings like parks, hotels, and tourist attractions.
Build Distilleries, Pubs and Bars.
Sports Enjoyment
Build sports buildings like football fields, tennis courts, indoor pools, etc.
Build Amphitheaters and Art Galleries.
Build Fabric and Cloth Factories
Criminality
Build police stations and prisons.
If you want to increase your citizen’s loyalty, you first need tobuild a Secret Policeto gauge the loyalty of every citizen. Then you need to build structures likeobelisks and monuments like the ‘Soviet Star’to increase their loyalty over time.
