Victoria 3: How to Reduce Radicals

In Victoria 3, your population’s living style matters a lot in fact if they are getting all the goods and getting better in their lifestyle, they’ll be generating the income that you get by taxing them. However, there are also some pops that are finding it hard to better their standard of living which results in becoming Radicals.

In this guide, we’ll tell you how you can decrease the number of Radicals in Victoria 3.

Reducing Radicals

Radicals are the pops of your country whose Standard of Living Falls below the minimum percentage, if their standard of living falls to 0, if they’re discriminated against their religion or culture if they’re part of a political group and they don’t get their political demands met, and also on the choices you make on the events in the game can cause some pops to become radical. You can see the total number of Radicals in your country by looking into the Radical Menu. It’ll show you the number of all Radicals in the country and in which region there are more radicals.

Now, for whatever reason they are becoming Radicals, you’ll have to reduce the Radicals to increase your country’s economy because Radical people won’t be able to get the goods and pay their taxes which ultimately runs your country. Now, there are several ways to reduce Radicals and we’ll go over them one by one.

• Introducing Laws
  • You can pass the law for the Radicals that are discriminated against by their religion or culture in the Politics menu of the game. Open the menu and go to the Laws tab to add the new laws for them. Add the laws that decrease the percentage of Radicals in the country. For example, Dedicated Police Force lowers 15% of Radicals from Standard of Living decreases.
• Upgrading Institutions
  • The Institutions are also in the Politics menu and the Institutions in the country can be upgraded with Bureaucracy to give you more benefits. You can upgrade the Law Enforcement Institution to lower the percentage of Radicals. You can upgrade the Institution to a maximum of level 5 and on the 5th level, it’ll lower by 25% Radicals from Standard of Living decreases.
• Paying Everybody
  • The other way to reduce Radicals is to pay every person in your country. You can check on every nation or region’s percentage and see how many people are getting paid by the budget you have set. Go to the Budget menu and you can set the Taxes as well. If you want them to pay more, lower the taxes to lower your income but reduce the number of Radicals if they are increasing.

Make sure to make more buildings as well so more people will get jobs and it’ll also reduce the number of Radicals you can also see the different reasons people become Radicals in the Radical menu. Make sure to build and work on the betterment of the Radicals to lower their numbers and increase their Standard of Living.