利益集团

An interest group with a short summary of: its leader, their ideologies and traits, and its political status.

An interest group is a collection of pops that support certain political views and want to change the country to be more in line with those views. Interest groups are drawn from a number of different templates, but will vary in their exact views from country to country, based on factors such as the local religion, which social movements have appeared in the country or the personal views of their leader.

All individuals in all pops are either members of an interest group or politically inactive, with the ratio in each based on factors such as profession, wealth, literacy, etc. It's important to note that a single pop can potentially have individual members supporting every interest group in the game (albeit in different numbers).

Interest group categories

Interest groups form the nucleus of Victoria 3's political gameplay. There are 8 (+1 extra) interest groups in the game. These will be listed with their typical Ideologies and Traits below:

Interest Group	Ideology	Approval of	activated Trait
Armed forces	Jingoist Loyalist Patriotic	≥10 ≥5 ≤5	Patriotic Fervor Veteran Consultation Materiel Waste
Petite bourgeoisie	Reactionary Meritocratic Patriotic		Treasury Bonds Middle Managers Xenophobia
Devout	Pious Moralist Patriarchal		Be Fruitful and Multiply +2% Birthrate Divine Right +10% Authority Pious Fiction -10% Education access
Industrialists	Plutocratic Laissez-Faire Individualist		Job Creators Engines of Progress Tax Avoidance
Intelligentsia	Liberal Anti-Clerical Republican Anti-Slavery		Propagandists Avant-garde Social Criticism
Landowners	Paternalistic Stratocratic Patriarchal		Noblesse Oblige Family Ties Noble Privileges
Rural folk	Agrarian Particularist Isolationist		Farmer's Markets Honest Work Old Ways
Trade unions	Proletarian Egalitarian Populist Anti-Slavery		Solidarity Industrial Organizers Work-to-rule
Politically inactive

Note: Interest groups' ideologies may differ based on country or law. For example Landowners gain the Pro-Slavery Ideology, if Slavery is allowed in the country.

Note: Interest groups' names may differ depending on the circumstances in the country. For example, the devout interest group may have its name based on the country's dominant religion.

Ideology

主条目：Ideology

Interest groups have a number of ideologies which determine their views on which laws the country should or should not enact -- interest groups will generally favor laws that align with their beliefs and benefit them in some way.

Different interest groups will have different ideologies (for example, the landowners are significantly more conservative than the trade unions), but these are not entirely set in stone. Ideologies can change over the course of the game and will also vary based on the current leader of the interest group, who comes with their own personal ideology and view of the world.

Additionally, some interest groups in certain countries have unique ideologies colored by their religion and culture, such as the Confucian Scholars interest group in 中国 Qing China who support a Confucian ideology.

Political strength

Individuals inside pops contribute political strength to their interest group of choice, with the amount they contribute again dependent on multiple factors, the main ones being their material wealth and the status (and/or votes) they are offered under the nation's power structure. For example, a single wealthy aristocrat in an oligarchy will provide hundreds or even thousands times the political strength of a poor laborer.

Some pops have no political strength at all, usually due to being disenfranchised under the nation's laws (such as people of a religion or culture that is discriminated against, or women in countries that haven't instituted women's suffrage). These pops are "outside the system" so to speak, unable to demand reform through the regular political system of interest groups, and instead having to rely on other methods to put pressure on the government.

Clout and classification

The total political strength of all pops in an interest group is what gives it its level of clout -- the amount of political weight it can assert on the country and the government. The interest group's clout value is the percentage of the political strength it holds out of all the political strength in the country. For example, if all pops in the country have 100k political strength and the industrialists have 30k political strength, then they control 30% of the clout in the country.

Clout, in turn, will determine the interest group's classification within their country -- whether they are considered powerful, influential or marginalized.

Approval level

参见：Political movement

Interest groups have a level of approval, which is based on factors such as how much they approve of the country's laws, whether they are in government or in opposition, and how many of their individual members are loyalists or radicals. There are numerous other factors that can affect approval as well, such as the player's reaction to certain events or the decisions that they take.

It is possible for one (or several) angry interest groups to start a civil war, potentially bringing in foreign countries to support them.

Traits

The classification and approval of an interest group determines which traits are active for an interest group at any given time, and how impactful they are. There are different traits, positive and negative, with positive traits being activated when an interest group is happy and negative ones when they are unhappy. If an interest group is powerful, the effects of any traits they have active are stronger, while an interest group that is marginalized cannot activate traits at all, as they are too weak to exert an effect on the whole country.

The following modifiers are the base effects. They are doubled when the Interest Group is Powerful (≥20% Clout).

Interest Group	Negative Trait (Loyalty ≤5)	Moderate Trait (Loyalty ≥5)	Loyal Trait (Loyalty ≥10)
Armed Forces	Material Waste	Veteran Consultation	Patriotic Fervor
	+25% Military Goods Cost	-10% Military Technology Cost	+15% Unit Offense, +15% Unit Defense
Devout	Pious Fiction	Divine Right	Be Fruitful and Multiply
	-10% State Education Access	+10% Authority	+2.5% Birth Rate
Industrialists	Tax Avoidance	Engines of Progress	Job Creators
	-10% Manufacturing Tax (?)	-10% Production Technology Cost	+10% Capitalist Investment Pool Contribution
Intelligentsia	Social Criticism	Avant-garde	Propagandists
	-10% Prestige	-10% Society Technology Cost	+50% State Migration Pull
Landowners	Noble Privileges	Family Ties	Noblesse Oblige
	-10% Agriculture, Ranching, Plantations Tax (?)	+10% Influence	+10% Aristocrat Investment Pool Contribution
Petite Bourgeoisie	Xenophobia	Middle Managers	Treasury Bonds
	+100% Radicals from Discrimination, -10% Influence	+10% Bureaucracy	-10% Loan Interest Rate
Rural folk	Old Ways	Honest Work	Farmer's Markets
	-10% Tech Spread	+10% Agriculture, Ranching, Logging Throughput	+10% Infrastructure
Trade unions	Work-to-rule	Industrial Organizers	Solidarity
	-15% Construction	+10% Manufacturing Throughput	+10% Workforce Ratio