GAME MANUAL - Steam

HEARTS OF IRON DARKEST HOURreason for its increase isactually as a result of yourdomestic failure to meet theconsumer goods expectations.If you allocate too little of yourIC to consumer goodsproduction, then dissent willbegin to rise. The demand forthose goods and the rate atwhich dissent rises if you failto meet that demand willdepend on your domesticpolicies and possibly on yourcabinet ministers.As the level of dissent rises,the most immediate effect youwill notice is that the performanceof your armed forces willbegin to suffer. Low levels ofdissent will only have amarginal impact on theircombat abilities, althoughhigher levels may place yourforces at a significant disadvantage.There is also a chance thatdissent may reach a levelwhere your public will rise inopen rebellion and seek tooverthrow what they view as acorrupt and malevolentgovernment. They will also befar more open to acceptingforeign financing of a coupd’état, something that couldhave devastating consequencesfor your nation.The only way to reduce publicdissent is to allocate excessIC to the production ofconsumer goods, which alsohas the side benefit ofgenerating additional cash foryour national treasury. Therate of the decrease isdetermined by the extent ofyour over-allocation and byyour domestic policies, andmay be further modified by thecapabilities of your cabinetministers. If you have sufferedan increase in dissent as aresult of an enemy’s nuclearattack, you can immediatelyeliminate this by launching aretaliatory nuclear strike ofyour own, perhaps becauseyour population is now soutterly terrified about thisescalation that they aren’t73