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[Servant Corps]

I have no idea if there even are elections, but you start off with the support of 0% of the population, and an apparently random relationship with demographic groups.

Your relationship with demographic groups are based on your policies, and there are indeed elections.

To me, you start off with 0% support because the previous government was so terrible that you manage to rid a wave of popular support. Now that you are in office, you inherit all those terrible policies, and thus that terrible approval rating. It's...somewhat....easy to gain popular support, as long as you set the duration between elections somewhat high.

But the policies often weren't THAT terrible.  :/

What REALLY irked me though, that made me completely lose interest in the game...So there's this super-religious country that likes burning books for fun, right?  Abortion punishable by death or god knows what crazy policies they had.  Problem was, the people supposedly -like- it that way, but they vote like a pack of crazed liberals.  I'm very liberal myself--But I don't want to ROLEPLAY one all the time.  I would LOVE to have a scenario that forced you to shove your country into the toilet to appease the religious factions, but it doesn't seem possible in that engine for whatever reason.  That was very disappointing.

Hell, SimHealth did a better job.  At the start of a game, you get to pick what your political alignment is, and what campaign promises you made...and it assumes that, hell, you got voted into office on that platform; if you live up to those policies, you should get re-elected!  Democracy should have been like that.

I think Democracy 1 fixed that problem, altough I never played that much...so I wouldn't know for sure. See, in Democracy 2, your voters belong to three factions MINIMUM. So your religious nutjobs are also liberal socialist car driving poor retired drinking tree-hugers. In Democracy 1, your voters only belong to three factions (no more, no less), and it's far easier to get on the bad side of the extermists.

Also...In Democracy 2, terrorist groups have to actually have the support of a cross-section of the population in order to actually try to kill you. So a religious nutjob may hate your anti-religious policies, but embrace your liberal socialist car driving poor retired drinking poor tree-hugging programs heavily and so won't attack you. In Democracy 1, you just need to anger one terrorist-prone group, and it doesn't matter if the rest of the country love you, that small minority will try to kill you. In Democracy 1, capitalists can overthrow a President that has over 80% popularity rating.