Budget

I would like to be able to set my nation and even empires budget. I believe we used to have a system where we could actually input the budget amounts for each department. I would like to be able to have the option to do my own national budget and allow the government to run off of what I specify as opposed to having it done automatically. Maybe even go even more in-depth with it and allow us to further break down the budget by granting say Education a total number then being able to go below it and specify the amount for school operations, building new schools etc. I believe this level of control would make the game much more interesting. Of course I would make it optional, like have something in automation settings that would allow it to remain as is.

Most definitely
and it would control us from actually going into debt

So I deleted my account and came back too see if they had implemented my suggestion. Which they haven't which is really sad as it would be an amazing feature too the game.