政治的秘诀是什么?和俄罗斯人签约。 奥托·冯·俾斯麦 (1815-1898)

在游戏开始时，俄罗斯帝国已经是最强大的国家之一。凭借其在欧洲和亚洲的广阔的土地，充沛的人力和大量的省份，俄罗斯可以轻松地成为游戏中最强大的国家。对于新手来说，它被认为是一个不错的选择，因为俄罗斯的体量意味着它有着很好的容错率。

俄罗斯开局时以斯拉夫派(保护主义，干涉主义)为执政党 其他的选择包括西化派（自由贸易，自由放任）和泛斯拉夫派（保护主义，国家资本主义）。

国家的工业在开局时会一事无成，因为俄罗斯缺乏推广技工产生所需的识字率，而且它的工业科技落后。当俄罗斯工业化后，泛斯拉夫派的国家资本主义既允许你手动建立工厂，也允许 资本家建立他们自己的工厂。只要拥有合适的工业科技、识字率和资源，俄罗斯的工业就会迅速崛起。在1860年前建设工业会生成大量无效率而空的工厂，大规模工业扩张应当集中在1870-1880年。

俄罗斯在数十年内都不会有大量的自由主义支持度，因此这里在很长时间内都很不可能有政治或社会改革。¨

俄罗斯有很长一系列的独特决议和事件：

决议

Events

Russia has some fiscal issues considering the large investments needed and the size of the country. Keeping both education and administration spending at the maximum will help with literacy and administrative inefficiency issues. Russia's literacy is extremely poor and if this issue is not fixed, it will result in Russia falling behind technologically. Initially it is probably best to use Russia's two National Focuses on clergymen in the two largest states of Kiev and Moscow as this will help to increase literacy and the rate at which technologies can be researched.

It is best to encourage capitalists, clergy, clerks and Bureaucrats. One can do so with National Foci and giving tax cuts to middle and upper class. The tax rates for lower class can however be kept high to finance the big investments needed in education and bureacracy. One can leave leave them with only enough money to eat so that they have enough strength to keep working and breed.

Military - As Russia has a large population, one can field more troops than even the strongest neighbours (except the United Kingdom). It does not even require that big of an investment to do so, so it might be a place to spare some money.

Tariffs. Russia's tariff efficiency is lousy to start with (due to poor admin efficiency). High tariffs will also result in inefficient factories, but that will not be a problem until one actually has an industry to speak of. One can increase the tariff as needed considering that it will hurt the industry.

Navy. Russia has a large starting navy, but it does not have much need for one, at least early on. The biggest threats will invade over land. It can be disbanded with a great saving in cash, or at least one can stop buying clippers and steamers in order to safe money. It might be wise to keep a navy large enough to beat Denmark or Prussia and to get colonization points.

The academia start with an "Avantgarde Intelligentsia" administration. In simple English, Cultural techs have a 5% bonus along with a 5% penalty on industry and 25% penalty on navy techs. Culture techs is arguably the most lacking in Russia at the start of the game. The techs which raise research points, literacy, national focus and plurality. Early on, Russia needs only stray from the culture techs if it really needs a military tech due to some expected war in Europe or if it needs additional output from farming or mining.

Arguably the Russia's biggest issue is it's Literacy rating. It is both important in order to keep up in tech with Prussia and the other European states and to make the population promote to workers and capitalists.

Maximum education spending is also encouraged to build up the research level. This, along with giving priority to technologies that increase research and education, helps Russia achieve a respectable research rating in the long run.

Ideological Thought is a good choice for Russia's first tech, to boost plurality and give another national focus. Otherwise if financial problems persists, Freedom of Trade or Practical Steam Engine will benefit a lot of POPs and permit Russia extra income. Medicine, Positivism, Functionalism, State and Government are also excellent early techs for Russia.

Russia's lackluster technology means that it doesn't have many influence points to spend on influencing other nations. It is therefore important to prioritize key areas of Russian interest:

Russia has two natural rivals: Austria and Prussia/ North German Federation/ Germany. Luckily, they are also hostile to each other. The worst thing that could happen to Russia is the formation Greater Germany. Other rivals could include the United Kingdom should they decide to make Asia their main area of expansion. Should they successfully westernise, China and Japan can also pose a threat. Japan has cores in the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin, which they might try to contest.

The Ottoman Empire is another potential enemy. Forcing them away from Great power status opens the possibility for the decision Defender of the Eastern Christendom. The decision gives prestige pr. month (12 prestige pr. decade) so it is best to provoke early. On top of that, releasing Bulgaria, and the Ottoman controlled provinces of Serbia, Montenegro and Romania gives multiple good allies against Austria.

Fortunately, there are several possibilities when looking for allies against these threats. France is the obvious one. They too have a conflict with the German nations over Alsace-Lorraine, an ongoing rivalry with the UK and are eager to get an alliance with Russia. The Scandinavian states or a united Italy are also potential allies.

There are a lot of nations that Russia can attack to strengthen its position.

Russia starts with a big fleet and the potential to make it enormous. It can reasonably expand its control to any part of the world, and does not need to choose where to prioitize because it will never realistically run out of colonial points. It does however have a bad literacy but with investment in education and the right prioritizing it is possible. One does however need to give up on other research in order to be ready in 1870.

Omani Zanzibar or Kenya, Danish Ghana, Egypt or Zulu are possible footholds that Russia could use to engage in the Scramble for Africa.

与非洲一样，俄罗斯需要在东南亚站稳脚跟。可能的目标包括 文莱, 柔佛或 越南。

Russia can colonize the island of Sakhalin at the very start of the game, as well as the nearby Kuril island chain later on.

Other than those two, there are uncolonized regions in northern Siberia, Central Asia and Alaska (if one does not decide to sell it to the United States. There are no competitors in these regions, except the UK in Alaska, so they can be safely ignored to allow a focus on colonizing elsewhere.

USA can decide to take the decision Seward's Icebox, where they offer to purchase Alaska for 70.000 ducats. Russia will get the event The Alaska Purchase?, where they can decide to sell Alaska or keep it. If one intends to colonize with base in Alaska, it will be a good idea to reject the offer.

Until Russia gets her literacy up, she will not have craftsmen; if she builds factories, they will be empty and inefficient. It is therefore advised to stay away from Laissez Faire in the early game. Most of Russia's factories will be closed by the capitalists due to the lack of clerks for a long time.

As the before mentioned technology struggle is resulting in slow research for those vital industry related techs and no clerks in the early game, Russia has to be a bit more careful with factory placement to have profitable factories. So, ensure that one have vertical integration between the states/factories as much as possible. e.g. timber/lumber/clipper shipyard or iron/steel/steamers or grain/glass/liquor.

It is adviseble to start off with a cement factory in the high population states (Moscow, Kursk, Kiev etc.) as it is cheap to build and should make a profit. Progressively build steel mills and lumber mills in the states where one can and build fabric where Russia has cotton, liquor where there is grain etc. Then build additional related industry according to the natural advantages - e.g. glass factory where one have a liquor factory, regular/Luxury clothes where one have built a fabric factory, etc.

One ought to end up rolling in money and lacking places to actually invest them, so keep going through and expanding all of those factories.

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