>>543536883
Thanks. It was tempting for a while, but I think the republic is still going stronger than any of my previous attempts at realism mode. The economy was actually balanced last year, and though I'm still about two million rubles in debt, and forced to take more loans to continue making the repayments, I'm at least covering the interest.
The main problem right now is the low education level of the populace. They're also unhappy, disloyal and criminal, but there's very little I can do about any of that without more college graduates. I got a small party headquarters and a small technical university, but at the current staffing level they're not even sustaining the pool of educated workers.
Fixing this is going to be difficult, since not only am I out of available housing, but the small shopping centre sustaining the city is almost at capacity. I'll have to lay out a whole new neighbourhood, with all required services, and probably a considerable increase in my food consumption, which is going to send the economy back into the negatives again. I've started plotting it out, but I'm not sure when I should start building this.