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All eCountries have a similar style of government. There is a Country President (CP), a Congress (Parliament) and the CP often gathers a Cabinet of Ministers to help them manage the country. Most countries have democracy but Saudi Arabia have a one-party state.

The CP is responsible for managing the entire country but the Cabinet’s job is to help them do this in whatever way the CP chooses. Usually, the CP has a vice-CP, a Ministry of Defence (MoD), a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and a Ministry of Education (MoE or MoHA). This covers most aspects of eRepublik. Congress are the legislative branch of government who manage immigration and vote on proposals regarding taxes, changes to the welcome message to new players, transferring money from the treasury to organisations (orgs) and Congress also have the power to impeach (remove) a CP from power.

That’s a very brief summary of the general eRepublik government. The question I’m asking today is ‘where is the power in government’?



A great deal of power is held by the CP. Unlike Congress, the CP elections continue even when the country has no regions and is wiped. The CP is the figurehead of government and is effectively the leader. A good CP can create a good government but an inactive or bad CP can lead to a terrible government.

In fact, CPs have influence on almost all aspects of government activity. CPs usually have a leading role in foreign affairs too. Plus, they’re the ones most players go to speak to when they want to ask a question about anything even slightly government-related.



What if cabinet members do something the CP doesn’t want? Well, the CP could remove them from the cabinet but that would involve a lot of hassle because the passwords to various orgs would need to be changed (and the cabinet member could be a troll and change the passwords).

What about Congress? Does the CP control them? Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that the CP can create a mass PM and boss Congress members about as much as they want (some have a speaker to do precisely that). But it is the Congress members themselves who vote on proposals. If they don’t want to listen to the CP, they are free to do whatever they want. Can the CP ‘punish’ a Congressman? Nope! There’s no way to remove a member of Congress and it’s unlikely that a Party President (PP) would create a blacklist to stop certain people standing in the Congress elections. So, there’s really little a CP can do if they’re not popular in Congress. Other than get impeached, of course…



I’m not content with just discussing what the CP’s limitations are though! No, I’m also going to talk about some things which the entire government has no real control over because I’m cool like that!

The Economy: Sure, Congress can alter the minimum wage (this mostly just affects commune jobs rather than all jobs on the job market) and can alter all taxes. However, does this actually affect ‘the economy’ that much? And what even is ‘the economy’?

I’ll call the ‘economy’ the prices of food, weapons, food raw materials and weapon materials on the marketplace; the value of wages in the job market and the price of gold on the monetary market. All of these are ways we can make money within our country. Now, obviously taxes can be taken on anything produced or sold in the marketplace and all wages have work tax removed from them. But, unless taxes are high, the effect of the taxes is relatively small. The only way to dramatically change prices is to get people buying/selling with each other. Selling cheaply reduces prices as competition drives the prices down and buying cheap products increases prices as the cheap products are all gone and only more expensive ones remain. So, yeah, government doesn’t have a great amount of control over the economy - they’ve just got to utilise it to make themselves more money from it.

Immigration: I’m going to talk about this more in a future article so this will be kept brief but Congress chooses who is given citizenship. Each member of Congress can let 3 people into the country but there’s no real way of controlling who they let in. Some countries (I think Spain still do this) require applicants to fill in a form or answer some questions about why they want to have citizenship before Congressmen are ‘allowed’ to accept them. But what would happen if a rogue Congressman decided to allow a group of bad people into the country? Absolutely nothing! So the government doesn’t really have much control (if any at all) in this department.



Teamwork is needed for Congress to have any form of coordinated response but they are mostly just a group of individuals who can do pretty much what they fancy since there are no negative consequences for their actions.

The CP has quite a lot of control over their Cabinet but, even then, it is possible that the Cabinet could operate largely by itself if the CP was not so strict. The amount of power the Cabinet holds can be determined by the CP.

The CP has quite a lot of power over their country but they really can’t control what Congress does. This is probably the main potential downfall of the CP, especially since Congress could impeach the CP if they so desire.

Still, even though the hierarchy of government can be broken down as CP -> Congress -> Cabinet, there are things which real-life governments can control but eRepublik governments just aren’t able to due to game mechanics.

Tl:dr version: Governmental power is mostly split between the CP and Congress but it can be hard for a CP to maintain control sometimes and there are also some things which are just outside of the government’s control.

This article isn’t finished without mentioning that eRepublik is a game and, like all games, nothing would happen without the players who play it. So the real power on eRepublik is… PLATO who you buy loads of gold from! Muhahahaha!

-Jimbobfrey 😉