NE4: March-June Northeast Budget FY2014 (Law)

[Napoleon]

I don't have much to say about the budget, but does anyone else think the northeast has too many budgets? Most other regions and the federal government have them every year or six months. For one thing 4 months is not long enough for a budget to go into effect, and often it just leads to the same budget being passed over and over again without much debate.

Most other regions are terr uhh ble.

Every Governor has the ability to mold his own fiscal policy. I think that's fair. If the budget being passed is the same (which is fine and something we talked about doing from time to time when budget policy changed), its the same as having an annual budget anyway. That the Northeast has continued to elect (basically) Liberal party type Governors since then is why the budget rarely changes.

[Napoleon]

I don't really mind having a budget every 4 months and it is good from a gameplay perspective. From a policy point of view obviously it's not a great idea, but the appropriate balancing of policy and gameplay is always difficult to work out.

The one thing question I do have, is, is the costs and revnues based on what we spend every 4 months, or every year?

You have to use Atlasia math. Four months equals four years, except when one year equals one year and in this case when four months equals one year. So this is basically an annual budget that only lasts four months, except those months are supposed to represent four years.

[Napoleon]

Technically you can just eliminate lines from the budget. That said, we probably should not.

The regional budget procedure structure is another gift from me to you. Any questions regarding the functions may be directed toward me.

[Napoleon]

AYE