D4 Overhaul & Expansion

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Author: Adeptus Freemanicus

Last revision: 31 Mar at 10:05 UTC (13)

File size: 39.11 MB

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Description:

A project to improve and expand Democracy 4—suggest what you want!

Direct Download & Early Assess to new updates:
https://github.com/BillJoeFreeman/D4-Overhaul-Expansion

Official Nexus Page (usually less updated than GitHub):
https://www.nexusmods.com/democracy4/mods/4/

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Only the above links are the official links/places to directly download the mod, any other links/sites are not OFFICIAL.

This mod is free, there are no paywalls, paid extensions, paid early access, or anything similar, any you find are SCAMS!

– Update 0.83.1 Mar 31, 2026 – Changes [891]:

Contribution: Bulgarian Names, Jobtitle change, Currancy fix, and more. By Petko Betsinski on GitHub.
6 Malware Icons Removed: Harmless malware SVGs were removed from the mod, learn more here.

– Update 0.83 Mar 24, 2026 Rework Update – Changes [52,948]:

Country Rework: Reworked of most modded countries. Still more to come.
Policy Rework: Improvements to existing modded policies. Still more to come.
Added Authoritarian Policy: Re-Education Camps, Propaganda Grants, Loyalty Points, ID Checkpoints.
Added Mega Projects Policies: New Capital City, Strategic Shipping Canal, Artificial Island Resort.
Added New National Policies: Afghanistan Opium, Argentina Agricultural Exports Tax, Brazil Amazon Sovereignty [/b]
Policy Removed: State Animal Shelters, redundant as State Animal Control already exists.
Updated Translations: Some changes and improvements to translations.
Other Minor Changes.

Bug Fixes:

• Re-balanced Government Bonds.
• Fixed Capital of Bulgaria. (Reported by @Linux4e)
• Fixed Re-Education Camps missing text. (Reported by @JazzZaj)

Update 0.82.5 -Down-scaled Update- Jul 18, 2025 – Changes [124,490]:

Note: Many features were either scaled back or removed and planned for a future update.
Nation Policy: some modded nations now have a policy with both positives and negatives. (Scaled Back, will be expanded in future updates)
Added 5 New Countries: Argentina, Mongolia, Bulgaria, Iceland, and, Greenland. (Scaled Back) • Added New Policies: Sharia Law (National Policy), Burj Al-Khalifa (National Policy)
Updated Indonesian Translation.
Reworked Policy: Universal Basic Income now has a positive effect on GDP and reduces poverty more effectively. (Requested by @Northstar1989)
Updated Country Flags: Some modded flags improved.
Optimization : Mod size reduced by ~10.03%.
Policy Effect Reorder : Further reordered policy positives & negatives.
7 New Icons : Made icons for policies that had none, remade some.
Other Minor Changes.

Bug Fixes:

• Resolved issue where Ukraine was not listed as a UN member. (Reported by @Cyber Box)
• Corrected Mexico’s executive term limit and duration. (Reported by @VacatioLibertas)
• Fixed Indonesian Base Game Nation Translations.
• Fixed/QA’ed 14 Country Maps.
• Various other minor fixes.

Workshop Changes:

• Improved grammar and spelling throughout.
• Updated the Playable Nations Map.
• Added a full list of Playable Nations.
• Replaced most of the workshop description with a single comprehensive image for better readability.

– Update 0.82 HOTFIX 2 Apr 19, 2025 – Changes [96]:

• Reverted English policies becoming German. (Reported by Ghosty)

– Update 0.82 HOTFIX Apr 17, 2025 – Changes [193]:

• Prison Overcrowding now reduced with Prisoner Tagging. (Requested by CelestialSword21)
• State Orphanages decrease Unemployment and cost more. (Requested by CelestialSword21)
• Drug Enforcement Agency light overhaul. (Requested by CelestialSword21)
• Some Indonesian Nation Translation—most nations still aren’t translated.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed LVT Icon. (Reported by CelestialSword21)
• Re-translated German policies. (Reported by BlindSpectator85)
• Fixed Myanmar having EU Interest Rate—replaced with normal interest rate. (Reported by Cyber Box)

– Update 0.82 Apr 6, 2025 – Changes [2,801]:

• Undone/rolled-back merge: many reasons for it, but overall, after further thought, it was unnecessary and didn’t feel right.
• Reworked all modded countries (preliminary/partial).
• Improved some current modded policies.
• Reordered policy positives & negatives—now positive values are listed first, followed by negatives.
• Added Unique Flavor Policies (preliminary, most moved to next update): Taliban Women’s Education, State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan.
• Added 2 Policies: Employment Agency, Government Bonds.
• Some mod compatibility improvements.
• Mod size optimization of ~23.06% less.

Workshop Changes:

• More image sessions: Introduction, Languages, Disclaimer.

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