Does low Prestige affect your POPs ability to buy from WM?

[Ambigore]

I'm in the midst of conquering China as the Ottomans. My strategy has been to conquer China's capital and a handful of provinces, accept their peace offer (usually providing 2-8 provinces), and DOW the next day. That way I can eventually conquer the whole of China while keeping my BB zero.

Naturally, violating peace treaties costs -100 prestige and my prestige is now -6000. But I've noticed that my people are either dying or migrating elsewhere. I'm losing around 3000 people per day. My taxes are zero, and I've experimented with dropping my tariffs to minimum and installing max social reforms, but it had little effect.

Many of my POPs are unable to meet their everyday needs, although their life needs are 100%. Since I am non-industrialised with only a handful of factories, I assume my POPs buy their everyday needs from the world market. But because my prestige is so low, does that mean my POPs are the last in line when buying stuff off the world market?

 

[Orm]

But because my prestige is so low, does that mean my POPs are the last in line when buying stuff off the world market?

Don't know about last in line, but they're going to be pretty far down.
There doesn't seem to be consensus on whether it's only prestige or if it's total rank that affects this, but at -6000 prestige and very little industry, it won't make much difference.

 

[Eärendil]

There is a page in the ledger where you can see immigration and emigration. First check so that they aren't just emigrating from your country.

IIRC people won't starve unless they can't buy enough life needs.

 

[OHgamer]

if you yourself can not buy goods from the WM, then your POPs will not be able to either.

the question i have is, are the pops that are meeting 100% life needs building up reserves even though they can not get everyday goods or no. I

f yes, then the problem is your ranking (it's overall ranking, not prestige, I believe) restricting access to the WM.

If no, then it means your POPs do not have the income to buy even the first thing in the list of everyday needs. If you feel this is becoming an issue (getting everyday needs provides a constant -0.05 MIL reduction for all POPs that can do it), then either lower taxes and tariffs or increase exports of the RGO materials you produce so that your POPs have more daily income.