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Party Management

Your party is how you participate in Lawmaker. This guide covers creating one, defining its identity, and the events that can reshape or end it.

Creating a party

Pick a country, choose "Create Party Here", and fill in your details: name, abbreviation, colour, slogan, and description. Then set your ideology.

Private countries

Some countries are invite-only and show a padlock instead of a "Create Party" button. To join, you need an invite code from the country owner — either a share link they send you or a code you enter manually. See Private Countries.

Your ideology: the 4 pillars

The most important choice you make is your 4 policy pillars — four political issues, each set to a position on its spectrum (from -1 to +1). These are the platform voters and other players judge you by.

Issue -1 +1
Gender Equality Traditional roles Full equality
Role of Religion Secular governance Religious influence
Environment Growth first Environmental protection
Individual Liberty Strong leadership Maximum freedom
Military Diplomatic solutions Strong military
Immigration Border security Open borders
Economy Wealth redistribution Free market
Workers' Rights Business-friendly Worker protections

These are eight of the 16 issues available — the full list is in Laws & Policies. Choose four that give you a coherent, recognisable identity, and be ready to vote for them consistently.

A coherent platform

A "Green Progressive Alliance" might anchor on Environment +1.0, Workers' Rights +0.8, Gender Equality +0.9, and Individual Liberty +0.6 — a clear cluster a voter can read at a glance.

Changing a pillar

You can replace one of your four pillars at any time for 75 PP. It's deliberately expensive and public: one of the country's journalists automatically posts a news story about your shift, so everyone notices. Voters who liked the old position may drift away while new ones arrive — so it's usually safest right after an election, giving the electorate time to adjust before it next matters.

Party branding

Your party can have a custom SVG logo, uploaded on the Edit Party page with an optional colour tint and size adjustment. It appears wherever your party shows up in the game.

It's not just decoration: a custom logo gives a +5% supporter-turnout boost at elections, while a party with no logo takes a -5% penalty. Since uploading one costs no PP, it's one of the cheapest electoral gains available — do it early.

Changing your slogan or description

You can rewrite your slogan and description on the Edit Party page. It costs no PP, but the change doesn't go live straight away: it joins a queue and only takes effect once a moderator approves it.

Approval turns on whether the change is realistic and in character. Fixing typos, tidying up wording or correcting a mistake is always fine. Anything more substantive — a new slogan, a rewritten description, a change of political direction — has to be properly roleplayed: it should read like something your party would actually announce, and fit what your party has been doing in the game. Out-of-character or joke rewrites get turned down.

You can have one change waiting at a time; submitting again replaces it, and you can withdraw it while it's still pending. Party names aren't covered by this — to change your name, ask in the Discord support channel.

One party per country

Each account controls one active party. To play in multiple countries you need a separate account (with a different email) per country. Running more than one party in the same country, across any number of accounts, isn't permitted — see the rules.

Enthroned parties

In countries with a hereditary monarchy, your party can nominate one of its activists when the throne is vacant. If your nominee wins, your party becomes enthroned and dormant: it loses its seats, its PP resets to 0, its cabinet posts and bloc memberships are vacated, and your nominee leaves to reign as monarch. You can later abdicate to restore the party — but it returns with 0 seats and 0 PP. Don't nominate casually.

Disbanding and inactivity

You can voluntarily disband at any time, releasing your activists, cabinet posts, and seats. A disbanded party can be revived by its owner, though anything lost on disbanding doesn't automatically come back.

To keep countries alive, Lawmaker also disbands inactive parties:

  • After 3 days of inactivity, you get a warning email.
  • After 5 days, your party is auto-disbanded — but only when the country is 70%+ full, to free space for active players.

Any action — even a single vote or message — resets your activity timer, so logging in every few days is enough. (Reigning monarchs have their own inactivity checks; see Hereditary Monarchy.)

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