I live in the former GDR, and the people here are unhappy under the new, more capitalistic system. Why? They all had houses and jobs under the socialist East German government. They had money, but couldn't travel. Now they can travel, but don't have money. They couldn't speak out against the government. Now, they are called "Nazi" if they speak out against the government. Public transport was reliable and inexpensive. The education was much better than what the West Germans received. That was obvious to me, having lived 10 years in the West and then moved to the East. Capitalist companies cut employees' wages to line the pockets of share holders. The trains, buses, and street cars cost outrageous amounts of money to use, but do not run on time. The post is utterly unreliable, throwing your letters into the neighbors' mailboxes, or taking 3 weeks to get a letter across Germany, which you could drive in 7 hours tops, so basically, they are using donkeys to transport the mail, it would seem, and taking the route that leads through Southern Spain, but keep jacking up their prices as well. Health insurance companies cover less and less, yet the health care offered is still crap. The school system turns out kids, who are severely under-educated compared to their grandparents. Right now, we have people calling others "Nazi", because they don't like their opinions. They think that they should be allowed to ban their opponents' opinions and political parties, because they are in the majority - or at least in the majority of people, who are willing to speak out. That is how Germans, even West Germans, think a "free democratic" government system works.

I was really looking forward to playing this, in the hopes that the devs had programmed the actual ups and downs of a free-market system vs. socialsm. When we look at the expensive, junk-quality of goods sold to us today under a free-market system, we see that a so-called "free-market" system doesn't work. Companies all have cruddy customer service and product quality, plus high prices. When they all do that, where do you want to turn to buy things? No one is regulating them. They cut costs by cutting employee wages and benefits, but will give away hundreds of thousands or millions to try to put themselves into a good light. The workers are taken advantage of, not taken care of, and they are the back-bone of the company.

Consider allowing the potential for a mixed market system or alternating market systems. I've not seen in the game yet that that is possible.

Please consider re-balancing the game. Perhaps learn more about systems such as the GDR, rather than taking Stalinism or Taoism as the example for a planned market economy. To be frank, I think that the best way to prevent corruption is to change back and forth. For example, 15 years under a planned market economy and 15 years of privatization. That keeps the powers-that-be from getting complacent.

They don't look here at all unfortunately.

But, I ran a successful NS campaign. You can nationalize everything successfully.

Yes developer, in case you ever look here, please take a deep look at how 'fond' people in socialist countries were of their political system, health care and economy, so much so that the Ukrainians or people in Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia … prefer to literally rather perish than get back under Putin's whip of Soviet Union 2.0. Nevertheless, there are still places like Belarus, Russia, Cuba, North Korea and a bunch of other socialist, pseudo-socialist or otherwise top-down authoritarian countries where the economy is run by the state, be it in Africa, Asia or South America. Plenty of nice, cozy places to emigrate to for the Ostalgia-ridden dimwit.

Yes, the 0.1% in the world skim the cream and game the system, and they are helped by incompetent politicians who often have no clue about the matter they are supposed to regulate, but that is no better in authoritarian countries, quite the contrary: it is much, much worse. We need to reign in the excesses and atrocities that neo-liberalism brought, but even with its flaws, market economy in democracies gives a lot more people a lot better living conditions than a bankrupt, failed, no longer viable system on the border of collapse like the GDR was ever could.

Therefore, the nonsense that is uttered above should come with a disclaimer about the author's level of education, profession or more likely, job, and state of mental health, because it is complete and utter rubbish (what does Stalinism have to do with Taoism?) and simply not true. You obviously have no clue about economy either. Sometimes when being taken for an idiot, it is better to keep your mouth shut, instead of opening it to thereby eliminate even the last remnants of doubt about such a characterization. At the very least, speak only for yourself, instead of pretending that 'the people' in the former GDR were all as stupid as you proclaim in your declaration of incompetence.