Political Parties and Neutrality

[nujnal]

My friend mentioned that political parties will influence our neutrality. He said if the government is evenly divided by different party, it's almost no point increasing threats to bring down neutrality.
Is this true? I can't find the information in the manual or web.

Also, please correct me if I'm wrong, is the dark and light gray parties belong the fascist ideology while dark and light blue belongs to the democracy?

Thanks.

 

[IronMurg]

As far as I know it's your ruling party that determines how much threat increase you get from other countries. Fascist ruled countries are less threatened by other fascist ruled countries. Democracies are less threatened by other democracy, ect.

Correct about the colors. The ideology is labeled on the politics screen.

 

[Lynx190]

I just did some testing and as far as I can tell, the ruling party has no direct effect on threat; I tried declaring war with a right-wing party in power, reloaded and used the console to trigger an election that put a democratic party in power, declared the same war and threat generation was the same.

Ruling party (and not the type of government) does determine the "ideological similarity" diplomatic drift factor, and after a bunch of tests I can safely say that position in the diplomatic triangle is one of the biggest components of threat (along with being factioned or not, and proximity). Playing Romania and declaring war on a neighbor while fully aligned to Axis (but not in the faction) generated ~15 threat to the Allies, which turned out to be a nasty surprise; if I declared war at their initial alignment (slightly Axis) I only generated 5 threat. I then tag switched to various other countries with noneutrality and confirmed that the farther Axis a DoW'ing country was, the larger the threat generation towards the Allies, and lower towards the Axis (alignment of the target didn't seem to matter).

Threat increasing with spies doesn't seem to care as much about the degree of alignment as DoWs do though, just which side in general you and the target are on. The very instant you drift across the halfway point between Axis and Allies the spy threat comes to a screeching halt for countries on your new side and takes off for the other.

 

[nujnal]

Interesting, so different ideology is the key component for threat.
Ruling party influence drift factor which will affect the threat factor due to ideology differences. That answers my question.

Thanks for sharing your interesting finding, Lynx190! Gave me a clearer picture.