Second Sphere Economic Rules

Budgets

Sphere operates on a quarterly budget system; at a nominal and estimated game speed of one RL week equalling one game month, this means one budget budget must be generated every three weeks.

Budgets are important for nation play in Sphere; they are where much of a nation's long-term actions happen. While unglamorous they will do much to shape a nation's future. A list of some of the important things that happen in a budget are as follows:

Industrial production (both PIP and CIP)

Production of resources (primarily Dust)

Discretionary funding allocation ('wealth')

Trade income

Diplomatic actions and expenditures

Economic growth

R&D expenditures

General upkeep (logistics, etc)

Expeditions

Random events