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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: In ''5'', an Atheist State researches faster.Carried through into ''6''
* BenevolentDictator: You yourself can play a Benevolent Dictator if you so choose. You can be prone to avoiding elections, having citizens you don't like... erm, [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch go missing]] at a moment's notice, and be partial to skimming money off the top for your SwissBankAccount, along with erecting ostentatious statues of yourself everywhere ([[GoldMakesEverythingShiny gold optional]]). But at the same time, you could do your damndest to keep your population happy, healthy and well-fed, along with enacting edicts to keep your BananaRepublic as well-run as possible.

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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: In ''5'', ''5'' and ''6'', an Atheist State researches faster.Carried through into ''6''
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* BenevolentDictator: You yourself can play a Benevolent Dictator as one if you so choose. You can be prone to avoiding elections, having citizens you don't like... erm, [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch go missing]] at a moment's notice, and be partial to skimming money off the top for your SwissBankAccount, along with erecting ostentatious statues of yourself everywhere ([[GoldMakesEverythingShiny gold optional]]). But at the same time, you could do your damndest damnedest to keep your population happy, healthy and well-fed, along with enacting edicts to keep your BananaRepublic as well-run as possible.
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** This is continued in spirit by the Communist Leader in 6, as he is extremely friendly and it is very hard to make his faction unhappy unless you go out of your way to antagonize him, but it is also subverted when he asks for no seperation of offical powers (meaning you can arrest people at a whim) and asks for the creation of a survelliance state where everyone is spied upon. All for the security of Tropico, of course.
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* EvilIsPetty: in the Tropico 6 mission ''chocolate factory'' El Presidente moves to put an ethically run high quality choclatier called Wonkmeister out of buisness only to replace it with a company producing cheap, low quality chocolate possibly laced with drugs simply because the factory tour offered by the Wonkmeister was of a mundane factory instead of being a Willy Wonka style tour.

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** Tropico 6 has Prince Thari, who is a very depressed and melachonic take on the trope. Having so much money you don't have to do anything on top of being isloated royalty has left him very lonely.



* BeliefMakesYouStupid: In ''5'', an Atheist State researches faster.

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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: In ''5'', an Atheist State researches faster.Carried through into ''6''
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* AppealToForce: In the ''Tropico 3: Absolute Power'' expansion pack, your island will have the ability to develop your own nuclear program. Afterwards, as long as it remains fully staffed and operational, no matter how much you go out of your way to antagonize the super powers, you will never get invaded.

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* AppealToForce: In the ''Tropico 3: Absolute Power'' expansion pack, your island will have the ability to develop your own nuclear program. Afterwards, as long as it remains fully staffed and operational, no matter how much you go out of your way to antagonize the super powers, you will never get invaded. Tropico 4 has a nuclear weapons program in the base bame whith much the same rules, and 6 brings it back with the twist that you can launch the missile to impress Tropican citizens at the cost of upsetting foreign powers.
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* AntiGrinding: introduced with Going Viral are pandemics which can strike at any time and a deadly pandemic will hit you if you stay in the colonial period too long. Since it is impossible to research a cure until you reach the World Wars, old strategies of staying in the Colonial period to build up your economy and industry are now unwise as a deadly pandemic will crash your carribean colony faster than you can cough.

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* GovernmentProcedural: Ministers ([[SkeletonGovernment Five]]) are introduced in ''Tropico 4'' and are needed before some buildings can be built. They generate positive events if they are competent, and negative ones if they are craven or dumb. Sometimes El Presidente will have to fire them to avoid backlash (and El Diablo will want them fired if they're not Tropican-born).

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* GovernmentProcedural: Ministers ([[SkeletonGovernment Five]]) are introduced in ''Tropico 4'' and are needed before some buildings can be built. They generate positive events if they are competent, and negative ones if they are craven or dumb. Sometimes El Presidente will have to fire them to avoid backlash (and El Diablo will want them fired if they're not Tropican-born). They show up again in 6, but this time they give bonuses depending on their faction.
* GovernmentExploitedCrisis: in the Going Viral DLC for 6, pandemics come to your island. Some are harmless, others deadly, but all provide opportunity to exploit them for your own benefit.


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* SnakeOilSalesman: In Going Viral a literal snake oil salesman shows up to peddle cures to the Tropican people should an epidemic breaks out. He must be supplied with Rum in order to cure his patients. Oddly enough, his cures are highly effective, although they do not immunize patients meaning the disease might strike again.
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* EmergencyAuthority: you can delcare this in most games to give yourself emergency powers. Very useful for dealing with out of control rebels, and in DLC for 6, pandemics ravaging your island. [[GovernmentExploitedCrisis Or giving justification for cancelling elections.]]
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** In 6, the description for cloth factories read that this factory makes cloth that is made for many things, including flags. Wars are fought over flags. Threfore flags contribute to wars. And since cloth factories make the cloth used for flags, these factories are legitimate military targets.
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** If the Religious/Militarists ask you to change a High School's work mode to Parochial/Military Education, and you respond but then change it back to the original work mode, the faction will lose double the respect you earned for "fulfilling the request".

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** If the Religious/Militarists ask you to change a High School's work mode to Parochial/Military Education, and you respond but then change it back to the original work mode, the faction representative will scold you for going back on your word and you lose double the respect you earned for "fulfilling the request".

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