Yeah my first run (Reformist but lost the war) I funded Health and Education thinking I would get prompted for a new budget annually and initial investments there would pay off Keynesian-style.
But funding Law Enforcement is actually extremely important if you intend to
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root out the Sollist deep state root and branch.
Which I did to a maximalist extent in my second, successful run.
Thats kind of the point, they’re so (deliberately) underfunded they have to farm out jobs to subcontractors which boil down to “vigilante goes to place, murders a bunch of people”.