| Aries | Tuesday, August 9, 2022 - 02:24 am 
Looking just at Costa Espada, though you could repeat these steps elsewhere.
The place to start is maximizing your welfare index for the least cost. Some information on what it is and the calculation can be found here:
https://www.simcountry.com/statdocs/indexes_the_welfare_index.html
Something like Edu/Health/Trans 130, Social 92 are good values to shoot for.
The corporation types you are choosing to build seem to be okay, but you may be overbuilding. A rule of thumb is traditionally you may support around 1 corp per 1 million population you have. Your corporations need full hiring to be successful, and you are currently experiencing a shortage of high tech workers. Overbuilding is likely contributing, 35 corps vs 31 mil pop, but also keep an eye on your education priorities to supply yourself the mix of workers you require.
On the expenses side, your country is unable to support a military in its current financial situation, and it shouldn't need to. None of your countries are vulnerable to player attack until war level 3 and your main never has to be on GR. I would recommend selling all your weapons or sending them to your enterprise if you have one.
Taking these steps should get you out of the red, and if you are interested in more advanced econ after that, ask. You could probably bring that to the "Help" forum.
Edit: I peeked at New Holland on WG. I noticed the salaries for some of your corporations are quite low. This may appear like a savings to you, but as a country, higher salaries benefit you in several ways. The company gets increased productivity but also you collect higher personal taxes, education/health/investment fund contributions, and increase consumerism in your country. Rather than seeking savings in this area, it can actually benefit you to pay higher salaries, not less. |
