Cost of Government (Kebir Blue)

Could someone please advise me on how to cut the cost of govermment.

Cut Defense if you are in a protected state and
get CEO's involved in developing your country. ( CEO's foot the bill while you spend your money for other things).

This should save a lot of money until you become a developed country and then you should have a good income and can afford to build everything you want.

Roger
The Empire of Makam

While cutting defense will decrease "Total Defense Cost", and increasing CEO development will increase "Income from Enterprises", neither will affect the "General Cost of Government" line item.

The "General Cost of Government" can't be directly manipulated. However, it's based off the size of your population and the number of countries in your empire. Increasing the number of countries in your empire over 10 will start dramatically increasing this cost. I haven't analyzed the cost versus population size significantly, but I believe it's fairly linear among reasonable population sizes.