Environment

Environment affects both your nation's population happiness and population count. There are numerous variables in the environment bar which include some of the connected resources (coal/oil and uranium bring your environment down), a nations tech level, infrastructure to land ratio, military to population ratio, not having access to water, certain government types, your responses to the drug and immigration government policy questions, etc... The better your environment the more citizens you get and the happier your total population is.

Since nations can never change their default resources as of 03/17/06 nations are no longer penalized for their default coal, oil, or uranium resources. Only if those resources are brought in through trades does the nation get the environment penalty.

Increasing Environment
Below are the known ways to increase environment. Keep in mind that increasing environment may negatively affect your nation in other ways. Due to the changing (and mysterious) aspect of this game, this is not a complete or necessarily accurate list of all factors. Your environment will likely not be affected much (if at all) by only minor changes in these areas.


 * Get rid of any coal, oil, or uranium you are getting from another nation.
 * Make a trade agreement for water from another nation.
 * Buy more Technology (over level 6).
 * Decrease your military (less than 20% of your population)
 * Increase your population (more than 20% of your military)
 * Close your borders to immigrants and drug trafficers.
 * Increase your land (more than half your infrastructure).
 * Decrease your infrastructure (no more than twice your land).
 * Change your government type if transitional, dictatorship, communism, or totalitarian.
 * Get rid of nuclear weapons.