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Hello everyone! I’m writing this article to help out some of the new players in erepublik so they get a good start. Here’s some of the things I’ll be talking about in this article.

I: Media Basics
II: Political Basics
III: Economy Basics
IV: Military Basics


I: Media Basics

The media is a huge part of erepublik. In fact, it’s one of the four things that the game simply cannot run without. It’s what helps people get elected, advertise parties, help out the new people (like this article), or just to get their opinions out.

In order to write articles, you need a newspaper. Once you have a newspaper, you can write and publish whatever you want in it (as long as it follows the erepublik laws). Each thing you publish is called an article. You can write articles as long or short as you want, and publish them as often as you want.

Once you read an article, take this one for example, there’s 3 things you can do. You can vote it up if you liked it (click the blue button at the top left of the page), subscribe to the newspaper if you want to see more articles from this person (click the light blue ‘subscribe’ button at the top right of the page), or, if you thought it was interesting, leave a comment (the text box at the bottom of the page).

You can only vote an article once, so the number of votes an article has is an accurate representation of how many people liked it. The 5 articles with the most votes (usually referred to as the top 5) will appear on the homepage underneath the list of battles that you can fight in.

After 2 days however, articles disappear so they don’t clutter the media. You won’t see it in any media pages, but you can still read it by going to the newspaper of the person who published the article and scrolling through the pages until you find it.

Just a reminder, if you like this article, please vote it up and subscribe to my paper.


II: Political Basics

The second huge part of the game is politics. There are 3 types of politics in the game. Party politics, anything having to do with political parties in a country, national politics, anything to do with things going on in the government, and international politics, anything having to do with our relationships with other countries. All three are huge parts of the game.

To be involved in party politics, you first need a political party. If you click here, you’ll be taken to a list of the top 5 political parties in this country. If you scroll through, you can also see all the other parties that you can join once you reach level 14.

If you’d like to join a party, I’d recommend the United Independents Party, or the UIP. We’re a group of independent people whose opinions don’t quite match the other parties. It’s a great place for people to start out, at least until you get a feel for what all the political parties stand for. We also have many experienced players who are willing to help you out. Even if you decide not to join us, you should register on our forums, simply because it’s a great community. Our forums can be accessed here

With each party, there has to be someone to run it and make sure that everything goes right within the party. This is why on the 15th of every month, there’s a party president election, where everyone in the party votes for who they want to lead them. Parties play a crucial role in the congressional elections on the 25th of every month. It’s their job to make sure that every state has 5 candidates running for congress, and blockers for states that don’t have enough candidates.

Blockers are necessary because of our enemies attempting to PTO (political takeover) us. PTOs usually start with spies from enemy countries trying to get citizenship. If they do get citizenship, than the next step is to get themselves elected to congress by any means possible. Once they get elected, they have the ability to approve citizenship requests, which means they can let in whoever they want, including their friend from the enemy country that they came from.

Once enough of our enemies get citizenship, they can potentially have enough votes from themselves to get a ton of them into congress, and if they control more than 50% of congress, they can even force us to impeach our own president and elect one of them as president. Once this happens, the enemy country controls everything we do.

Blockers are people who volunteer to run for congress just to fill the empty spots so that potential PTOers can’t even run without being approved by one of the top 5 parties.

There’s also a third election that takes place every month. Presidential elections. This is probably the biggest election of all 3. During these elections, people campaign to be the president of a country. The president can make the biggest decision in the game any time he/she wants. Where and when to attack. Any other decisions, such as taxes, who our allies are, and who our enemies are, have to be proposed by either the president or a congress member, and then, during the next 24 hours, congress members can vote either yes or no to it.

Politics in this game are a big responsibility, and dozens of trustworthy people are needed to make each country run the way it should.

III: Economy Basics

The third huge part of erepublik is the economy. It’s made up of hundreds of companies owned by hundreds of erepublik citizens. Each company costs 10 gold to start. Once a company is started (for example a grain company), the owner can either hire employees, or just work as a manager every day.

It’s risky to hire employees and many times, you loose money on them for one simple reason. You don’t know what their health will be when they work for the first time. If they work at low health, they don’t produce as much, but they still get the same salary. This is why when you work, you should always try to have 100 health.

So, once the grain company’s employees and/or manager produces some grain, they can sell it to food companies. The food companies buy the grain, and their employees and/or manager turn it into food, which is then sold on the market. Citizens buy the food and eat it to increase their health.

It is the same with other industries. Weapon companies need iron and oil in stead of grain, and building companies need stone.

Erepublik cannot run without these companies producing products. Without food, there would be no erepublik because everyone would simply die.


IV: Military Basics

The fourth and final huge part of erepublik that the game can’t run without is the military. It’s a big part of the game, but, you should always use caution when you fight.

Battles start when the president of one country decides to attack one of the regions of an enemy country that borders their country. Once the battle has started, it should appear on the homepage for all citizens in both countries. It should also appear for citizens in countries that are allies with one of the countries involved. From there, anyone who is either in a country involved in the battle or in a country that is allied with one of the countries involved can fight in the battle.

The battle screen can be hard to explain using only words, so I’ll post a screenshot of a battle below.



At the top right and left of the screen, you’ll see the two countries involved. Mexico and the USA. The country you’ll be fighting for will always be on the left. Now, at the top middle, you’ll see the region that’s being fought over. Oklahoma.

Now, under the country names and flags, you’ll see some strange crown things. Each crown represents a mini battle that that country has won. Each mini battle lasts 2 hours, and the first country to win 8 mini battles wins the region. How do you win a mini battle? Simple. Each time you press the fight button and defeat an enemy, you add some battle influence to your side. The amount of influence each country has can be seen on the wall. At the end of the mini battle, the country with the most influence wins.

Underneath the mini battles, you’ll see the name and profile picture of a citizen. This player is the battle hero. The battle hero is the person who has contributed the most battle influence. At the end of the mini battle, this person will receive a medal on their profile showing that they’ve gotten the highest battle influence in that battle.

The reason that you should be careful when fighting is that whenever you press the fight button, you loose 10 health. Whenever you fight, you should always make sure that you have enough money to buy food and restore your health.

Now, there’s also some other buttons that you should know about. On the right of the fight button there’s a picture of a rocket launcher. If you press that button, than you will pay 1 gold and your enemy will be instantly defeated. This is usually not worth the trouble. 1 gold currently equals over 80 USD. The price of 20 health worth of food for pressing the fight button twice is at most 12 USD. It is not worth it.

Another thing you should watch out for is the green health pack to the left of the fight button. If you click it, you will pay 0.5 gold (about 40 USD) to have 10 health restored. This is silly to do when you think about it because the same 10 health can be restored from a q5 meal that costs 5 USD. The purpose of this though is that each day, you can only restore 300 health with food. If you want to restore more health, you will need to either press that button or wait until tomorrow when you can eat again.

The last thing is the eat button. It’s just to the left of the health pack button. It will let you eat the first item of food in your inventory.

While you can fight independently, it’s usually better to join a militia, or the military. They’ll send you food each day so you can fight in specific battles. The best one for new players to join is the training corps. It will teach you more about the game than you can learn from anywhere else. If you think you’re active enough in erepublik to be a part of it, you should join.

If you’d like to join the training corps, the signup sheet is here.

Also, don’t forget to vote and subscribe to this article if you liked it.

Thank you.

Jason Welsh