法律

法律决定了如何治理和运转你的国家。某些法律会启用机构。法律要得到通过，至少需要一个执政的利益集团的支持。

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The numbers in green refer to the number of alternative laws currently available to be enacted in that sub-category.

Laws represent legal reforms in the country creating different political, economic, and social conditions for its pops, which over time changes the fabric of its society. This change can be slow and incremental, or fast and revolutionary.

At the start of the game all countries are set up with the best fitting laws compared to what they actually had in 1836. This varies wildly between countries, and greatly influences what sorts of conditions and strategies are available to the player while playing them.

By connecting different effects to starting laws, many historically appropriate and recognizable aspects and behaviors of Victorian-era nations are connected to a tangible property to encourage history develop in a more familiar direction.

That being said, these starting laws are far from set in stone and can be reformed by the player to better suit the direction their society is going.

Change reasons

Laws affect pops who live in the country currently, but will also limit which pops might migrate there -- few pops would make it their preference to move to a country where they're mistreated by law.

A common effect of laws is to modify some parameter about the country and even alter the effects of other parts of your society. Additionally, they can also permit or disallow the use of certain actions.

Another reason to change laws is because the people have demanded it. Laws influence how much political strength pops provide to interest groups. As a result, different groups of pops approve more or less of the society the player has built depending on their economic well-being, and their demands for change is more or less intimidating depending on how many and how strong they are.

The player may choose to placate an angry group, or further benefit an already content group for extra benefits. But in doing so, some other group will become displeased. Reforming existing laws to work more in accordance with the powerful interest groups' ideologies is a quick way to win their approval, permitting more leeway to go against their wishes in the future or as a quick pick-me-up in case their standard of living has recently taken a hit. Of course, the inverse is also true, and laws can be used to purposely anger and reduce the power of interest groups.

Enacting laws

At the checkpoint date one of the 4 options (success, debate, advance, stall) will happen.

Enacting a law is not an instantaneous, one-click affair.

Any reform must be supported by at least one interest group in the government who can champion the change. Interest groups have ideologies and an approval score that lead them to favor certain laws over others. While broader coalitions of interest groups in government give more options of laws to enact, it also complicates getting them passed.

Once a reform has begun it can be a smooth process that's over in a matter of months, or it can take years of grueling debate and stalling tactics in parliament, causing them to take more effort than they're worth. While the default time to pass a law is 180 days, the actual amount of time it takes depends both on the government's legitimacy in the eyes of the people, and also on the clout of the interest groups in the government that support and oppose the new law relative to the one it's replacing.

Law categories

There are three major categories of laws with seven sub-categories in each, which themselves contain up to half a dozen specific law options.

Although laws are almost always completely independent from one another, in some sub-categories, it is not possible to move directly from one extreme to the other -- the player will have to make gradual changes, first picking the intermediate laws before getting to the other extreme.

权力结构法律

主条目：权力结构法律

军队类型 - 军队的组织和管理方式。
官僚体制 - 如何管理你的国家。
教会与国家 - 身体的统治者与精神的统治者之间的关系。
公民权 - 扩展公民权。
治理原则 - 国家治理的基本原则与权威。决定了什么人是国家元首。
权力分配 - 政治权力是如何被分配的。这决定国家元首对谁负责。
国内安全 - 保持国内有序。

经济法律

主条目：经济法律

殖民机构 - 你对于建立殖民地以取代和征服松散部族的立场。
经济体制 - 经济的基本原则。
教育体制 - 为孩子们做完扫烟囱的家务后的准备。
卫生系统 - 关于政府是否参与为公民提供医疗保健的法律。
警察机构 - 国家警察部队的优先度。
赋税 - 国家如何通过对其公民征税以获得税收。
贸易政策 - 管辖贸易和跨境商品交换的法律。

人权法律

主条目：人权法律

儿童权利 - 赋予儿童的权利与保障措施。
言论自由 - 相关法律对言论自由和公共集会权利进行了规定。
劳动者权益 - 工人权利。
移民制度 - 控制人口流动。
女性权利 - 针对女性的法律规制。
奴隶制 - 把人当作财产。
社会福利 - 政府对于低收入贫民的帮助。

参见

To update page content see reference files in folder Victoria 3\game\common/laws:
1. Each law type has its own txt file (named after the law type).
To update flavor text see reference files in folder Victoria 3\game\localization/english:
1. For laws flavor text see reference file laws_l_english.yml.
2. For modifiers flavor text see reference file modifiers_l_english.yml.
3. For institutions flavor text see reference file institutions_l_english.yml.
4. For inventions flavor text see reference file inventions_l_english.yml.