Beginner Guide
Learn how to start your first campaign, choose a country, navigate the interface, control simulation speed, and understand your government's priorities. Discover the essential decisions that help new players avoid common mistakes.

Take control of a nation in a living geopolitical simulation where every decision has consequences. Manage the economy, pass laws, win elections, negotiate international agreements, and command your military. Explore our guides to understand the systems and build your own path through history.
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Learn how to start your first campaign, choose a country, navigate the interface, control simulation speed, and understand your government's priorities. Discover the essential decisions that help new players avoid common mistakes.
Understand government revenue, taxation, public spending, debt, inflation, and economic growth. Learn how to apply a budget, manage financial pressure, and use public investment to support your country's development.
Learn how political parties, parliamentary majorities, coalitions, elections, and legislation work. Discover how to build political support, introduce reforms, and continue playing when your party loses power.
Explore diplomatic relations, international organizations, alliances, sanctions, and military planning. Learn how to negotiate agreements, respond to crises, prepare your armed forces, and pursue peace settlements.
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Form alliances in Geoplanetical through Defense treaties, review partner responses, and distinguish a pact from military access or joining a war.
Read guidediplomacyImpose targeted sanctions in Geoplanetical, review the available instruments and manage enforcement or withdrawal from an existing regime.
Read guidediplomacyCompose product-by-product trade offers in Geoplanetical, understand tariff reductions, review counteroffers and complete ratification.
Read guideeconomyBorrow in Geoplanetical through Budget → Summary, review the rate and interest cost, and distinguish loan proceeds from budget reform.
Read guideeconomyChange taxes in Geoplanetical, preview income-tax bands and household effects, and apply the complete budget proposal.
Read guideeconomyReview your Geoplanetical budget balance, adjust revenue and spending, then apply the proposal while keeping borrowing separate.
Read guideeconomyLaunch a productive-investment program in Geoplanetical, choose a company, good, or sector, and check funding and construction constraints.
Read guideeconomyUse Budget → Summary to preview a Geoplanetical sovereign-debt repayment, preserve the cash buffer and distinguish central-bank repayment.
Read guideGeoplanetical
Geoplanetical is a single-player geopolitical simulation and grand strategy sandbox developed by Polytale Games. Starting on January 1, 2026, players can lead a government or an opposition party across more than 200 nations and territories. Each country operates within an interconnected simulation of politics, economics, society, diplomacy, and warfare.
Build an economy, reshape national institutions, pass legislation, negotiate trade agreements, and manage international conflicts. Your decisions influence public approval, government stability, businesses, infrastructure, and relationships with other nations. With no fixed campaign end date, you can follow the long-term consequences of your choices.
Find practical help with government, budgets, politics, diplomacy, war and national infrastructure.
Start your first Geoplanetical campaign with a clear introduction to country selection, government control, and simulation settings. Learn how to navigate the interface, monitor national priorities, and manage your first decisions in a world that begins on January 1, 2026.
Choose from more than 200 playable nations and territories by searching for a country or selecting it on the 3D globe.
Select whether to lead the country's government or begin as an opposition party.
Review campaign rules covering AI wars, nuclear first use, natural disasters, and emerging pandemics before starting.
Use Space to pause or resume the simulation and number keys 1, 2, and 3 to change simulation speed.
Check the Agenda for important events, review country reports, and ask ministers for advice through Cablegram.
Learn how to manage taxation, government spending, public debt, and economic development in Geoplanetical. Understand how budget decisions interact with businesses, employment, public services, and national financial stability.
Open Budget → Revenue & taxes to inspect income tax, social contributions, VAT, and other government revenue sources.
Edit income-tax brackets, marginal rates, and personal allowances, then use Test a household to preview the impact.
Open Budget → Spending to adjust government expenditure and compare projected revenue, spending, and the budget balance.
Select Apply in the Budget project bar to implement the proposal after resolving any validation warnings.
Use Budget → Summary to review borrowing options, interest rates, treasury reserves, and sovereign debt repayment.
Understand elections, political parties, parliamentary majorities, and coalition governments in Geoplanetical. Learn how to prepare campaigns, recruit activists, make political promises, and respond when your party loses an election.
Open Politics → Assembly to review upcoming elections for legislative chambers and elected executive offices.
Open Politics → My party, raise campaign funds, and recruit activists to support upcoming elections.
When a campaign becomes available, select the election, allocate money and activists, and launch campaign operations.
Create a political platform with up to three commitments involving laws, taxation, spending, or electricity capacity.
After the election, review parliamentary seats, coalition formation, and government appointments. A defeated governing party can continue in opposition.
Learn how to introduce legislation, secure parliamentary support, and reform political institutions in Geoplanetical. Explore voting procedures, constitutional changes, executive approval, and the limits of government authority.
Open Legislation and select a policy area such as minimum wage, retirement age, working hours, or immigration.
Choose a proposed legal change and review the parliamentary support forecast and majority required.
Select Table the bill to submit the proposal, then follow parliamentary debate and voting.
Check whether the approved bill requires executive assent, another chamber's approval, or constitutional review before taking effect.
Use Politics → Institutions to inspect the constitution, electoral system, parliamentary powers, executive vetoes, and institutional reform options.
Explore military preparation, equipment production, campaign planning, and peace negotiations in Geoplanetical. Learn how military resources, logistics, alliances, and political decisions influence the outcome of conflicts.
Open Defense → Arsenal → Equipment to inspect military stockpiles, order equipment, and track deliveries from domestic or foreign producers.
Review the Defense treasury, available purchasing funds, protected operating reserves, and exceptional transfers from the national treasury.
Choose war objectives and campaign doctrine, then issue strategic directives for the general staff to execute.
Use Defense → Alliances to offer or request monthly financial support and one-off equipment shipments during eligible conflicts.
Open Peace negotiations during a war to propose settlements, review territorial demands, or pursue a ceasefire or armistice.
Learn how international agreements, trade negotiations, sanctions, and global organizations work in Geoplanetical. Explore the diplomatic tools available for building alliances, managing disputes, and influencing relations with other countries.
Negotiate import-duty reductions for individual products, exchange counteroffers, and complete the required ratification process.
Propose defense pacts, security guarantees, non-aggression agreements, military access, and intelligence-sharing arrangements.
Open Diplomacy → Sanctions to select a target and consider restrictions on arms, energy, technology, investment, or financial assets.
Participate in UN Security Council decisions when eligible, review draft resolutions, and vote Yes, Abstain, or No.
Eligible countries can apply for EU membership, satisfy accession requirements, negotiate entry, and seek approval from existing members.
Learn how to build power plants, manage electricity generation, and investigate energy shortages in Geoplanetical. Understand fuel reserves, electricity imports, storage systems, and infrastructure projects that affect national production.
Open Electricity → Manage my grid to choose a power source, set the number of units, and select a construction site.
Review projected generation capacity, construction cost, and completion time before selecting Build here.
Compare domestic electricity production, imports, and unmet demand to identify shortages.
Check fuel reserves, remaining operating time, and recent fuel deliveries before expanding generation.
Review electricity storage, international trade rules, and connection upgrades to address supply constraints.
Discover how space exploration and lunar colonization work in Geoplanetical. Learn the requirements for establishing a Moon outpost, sending trained crews, maintaining supplies, and developing a permanent settlement.
Open Space → Program to review space technologies, crewed-flight capabilities, and access to domestic or foreign launch facilities.
Open Space → Outposts and establish a new site in an unoccupied lunar region.
Construct operational habitats and life-support facilities, then verify electricity, accommodation, and supply capacity.
Prepare enough supplies for at least three months after the incoming crew arrives.
Use Train crew (+6) in Space → Program, then select Send a crew at the prepared outpost and monitor the mission through Space → Logistics.
About the game and this independent guide.
No. This is an independent fan-made guide. Geoplanetical is developed and published by Polytale Games.
Campaigns begin on January 1, 2026. There are no historical starting scenarios or fixed campaign end date.
Yes. Your party can continue in opposition and use the parliamentary powers it retains.
The guides use available game documentation and other identified material. They do not claim that every action has been personally tested.
From your first government budget to international diplomacy and military strategy, explore practical guides for managing your nation. Learn the systems, make informed decisions, and shape the future of your country.
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