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Achievement Guide
By Dovaspy
A quick guide to the achievements in Democracy 3 and how to get them.

There have been no new achievement guides since the update so I decided to make my own

MAY NOT BE 100% ACCURATE WITH STATISTICS
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Category: Achievements, Secrets, Walkthroughs
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Guide Index
Overview
Agrarian Society 
Apathetic Electorate 
Banana Republic 
Budget Balancer 
Cabinet Government 
Crime Free Utopia 
Darwin's Legacy 
Divided Society 
Divisive Leader 
Economic Miracle 
Economic Stability 
Educational Failure 
Egalitarian Miracle 
Elder Statesman 
Electoral Success 
Fillibustering 
Flip Flops 
Free Market Paradise 
Full Employment 
God's Kingdom 
Green Utopia 
Healthy Minds & Bodies 
Inebriated Society 
Intelligentsia 
Kyoto Award 
Landslide Victory 
Legitimate Leader 
Lonely at the top 
Military State 
Narcotic Economy 
Oil Dependency 
One Party State 
Police State 
Popular Leader 
Poverty Eradicated 
Socialist Paradise 
Sovereign Wealth 
Surveillance Society 
Survivor 
Technological Superiority 
True Patriot 
World Stage 
Comments
Agrarian Society
Have more than 65% of the population in the "Farmers" voting group

Suggested Policies:
Agricultural Subsidies
Organic Farming Subsidies
City Farms (Social Engineering)
Vertical Farming Subsidies (Clones and Drones)
Apathetic Electorate
Win 2 Elections in a row with <50% of the vote.

Compulsory Voting must be turned off.
Banana Republic
Requirements:
Farmers 54%
Internation trade 54%
Poverty 45%

Suggested Policies:
Agricultural Subsidies
Organic Farming Subsidies
Trade Council (Social Engineering)

Bad policies:
Any policy that fights poverty
Import Tariffs
Budget Balancer
Have a surplus for 5 years straight

Having low expenses and high income is the best way to get this.
Cabinet Government
Have your ministers with you for 6 years

Tips:
Do not fire any ministers unless it is very early on.
Ministers must sympathise with happy voter groups, happy groups will have a green bar next to them.
You must also win 2 elections to last 6 years.
Crime Free Utopia
Have crime and violent crime at 0%.

Suggested Policies:
Police Force [MAX FUNDING]
Community Policing [MAX FUNDING]
Intellegence Services [MAX FUNDING]
Prisons [MAX FUNDING]
Food stamps [MAX FUNDING]
Free school lunches [MAX FUNDING]
Rural Developement Grants [MAX FUNDING]
State Schools [MAX FUNDING]
State Health Service [MAX FUNDING]
Police Drones [MAX FUNDING]
Armed Police [MAX FUNDING]
Tasers [MAX FUNDING]
Low or no Gambling.

NOTE: The last 3 will upset the liberals a lot, and the State Health Service and schools are very expensive.
Darwin's Legacy
Religious Membership must be at 0%

Suggested Policies
Technology Grants [MAX FUNDING]
Space Program [MAX FUNDING]
Mars Program [MAX FUNDING]
Creationism versus Evolution [EVOLUTION ONLY]

Do not implement Faith School Subsidies or School Prayers.
Divided Society
Equality must be below 16%

Suggest Policies
Gated Communities [MAX FUNDING]
Tax Shelters [MAX FUNDING]
Flat Rate Income Tax

Do not add any policy that increases equality
Divisive Leader
Win 50-55% of the vote

Tips:
Turn on compulsory Voting
Constantly monitor your popularity leading up to the election, if it is too high, make unpopular decisions, if it is too low, make popular ones.
Economic Miracle
GDP must be >65%
Unemployment must be <25%

Suggested Policies
Rural Developement Grants [MAX FUNDING]
Military Spending [MAX FUNDING]
Small Buisness Grants [MAX FUNDING]
Scientific Funding [MAX FUNDING]
Technology Grants [MAX FUNDING]
Space Program [MAX FUNDING]
Prisons [MAX FUNDING]
State Health Service [MAX FUNDING]
State Schools [MAX FUNDING]
Childcare Provision [MAX FUNDING]

Invest heavily in technology and productivity
Economic Stability
Keep the GDP in a near straight line until you get the achievement, do not increase or decrease it.

Suggest Policies
Limit Automated Trading [TOTAL BAN]
Educational Failure
Education must be as low as possible

Cancel all Educational policies

Ban Private education (Extremism DLC)
Egalitarian Miracle
Equality must be >75%

Suggest Policies
Income Tax
Rural Development Grants
Public Libraries
Cap CEO pay multiplier (Extremism DLC)
Food Stamps
Legal Aid
Mansion Tax
Inheiratance Tax
Diversity Quotas for companies (Social Engineering DLC)

DO NOT HAVE GATED COMMUNITIES, FLAT RATE INCOME TAX OR TAX SHELTERS.
Elder Statesman
Win the election 5 times in a row.
Electoral Success
Win your second election in one game.
Fillibustering
Play the game for 2 hours straight.

NOTE: CANNOT BE DONE WHILE OFFLINE ON STEAM!
Flip Flops
Cancel 5 policies that you have implemented.
Free Market Paradise
Private Pensions >75%
Private Schools >75%
Private Healthcare >75%
Private Prisons >75%
Private Housing >75%

No Import Tariffs, Agricultural Subsidies, Clean Energy Subsidies, State Pensions, State Housing, State Health Service or State Schools.
Full Employment
Unemployment must be at 0%

Suggested Policies
Military Spending [MAX FUNDING]
Rural Development Grants [MAX FUNDING]
Space Program [MAX FUNDING]
Mars Program [MAX FUNDING] (Clones and Drones)
Prisons [MAX FUNDING]
Science Funding [MAX FUNDING]
Road Building [MAX FUNDING]
Monorail [MAX FUNDING]
Childcare Provision [MAX FUNDING]
State Schools [MAX FUNDING]
State Health Service [MAX FUNDING]
God's Kingdom
Religious must represent 75% of population

Ban Abortion
Teach Creationism Only
Ban Sunday Shopping

Suggested Policies
School Prayers [MAX FUNDING]
Faith School Subsidies [MAX FUNDING]

Do not have these policies
Technology Grants
Space Program
Mars Program
Green Utopia
The environment must be >84%
CO2 Emissions must be <25%
Energy Effiency must be >75%

Suggested Policies
Carbon Tax [75%]
Car Emission Limits [MAX]
Science Funding [MAX FUNDING]
Clean energy subsidies [MAX FUNDING]
Micro-Generation Grants [MAX FUNDING]
Limit or ban cars in cities [TOTAL BAN] (Extremism)
Ban low MPG cars [MAX] (Extremism)
Electric Cars Intiative [MAX] (Clones and Drones)
Smart Meter Program [MAX] (Social Engineering)

Try to lower Car usage.
Healthy Minds & Bodies
Health must be >84%

Suggested Policies
State Health Service [MAX FUNDING]
Compulsory Food labelling [MAX FUNDING] (Social Engineering)
Antibiotics Ban [MAX FUNDING] (Clones and drones)
Health Food Subsidies [MAX FUNDING]
Food Standards Agency [MAX FUNDING]
Tobacco Tax [MAX FUNDING]
Alcohol Tax [MAX FUNDING]
Free School Meals [MAX FUNDING]
Compulsory School Sports [MAX FUNDING] (Social Engineering)
Inebriated Society
Alcohol Consumption must be >95%

Suggested Policies
Alcohol Law [NO LIMITS]

Do not have an alcohol tax or awareness campaign, keep Narcotics Outlawed.
Intelligentsia
Education must be >96%

Suggested Policies
State Schools [MAX FUNDING]
University Grants [GENEROUS GRANTS]
Adult Education Subsidies [MAX FUNDING]
Technology Colleges [MAX FUNDING]
Public Libraries [MAX FUNDING]
Kyoto Award
CO2 Emissions must be <2%

Suggested Policies
Carbon Tax [75%]
Micro Generation Grants [MAX FUNDING]
Clean Energy Subsidies [MAX FUNDING]
Car emission limits [MAX FUNDING]
Pollution Controls [MAJOR FINES]
Landslide Victory
Win >95% of the vote in an election.
Legitimate Leader
Win >50% of the vote in an election.
Lonely at the top
Dismiss your cabinet each turn until you get this achievement.
Military State
Military Spending must take up half of your total expidenture

Max out Military Spending
Cancel State Pensions
Cancel State Health Service
Cancel State Schools
Cancel State Housing
Cancel Rail Subsidies
Cancel Child Benefit
Cancel any other large expenditures
Narcotic Economy
Recreational Drug Tax must become your main source of income

Max out Recreational Drug Tax
Legalise all drugs (Under Narcotics)

Cancel all of your other high income policies
Income Tax
Carbon Tax
Sales Tax
Corporation Tax
Property Tax
Oil Dependency
Oil Demand must be >75%

Cancel any policies that decrease oil demand and car usage

Try to increase GDP as much as possible
One Party State
Opposition must recieve no votes

Suggestions: Turn on compulsory voting
Police State
Policies needed:
CCTV Cameras [FACIAL RECOGNITION]
Armed Police [SUBMACHINEGUNS]
Curfews [MAX]
Detention without trial [INDEFINITE]
Popular Leader
Impossible due to a patch, requires this mod:
http://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=226548897
Max out the "Political Prince" policy
Poverty Eradicated
Poverty must be <0%

Suggested Policies:
Rural Developement Grants [MAX FUNDING]
Free School Meals [MAX FUNDING]
Free Eye tests [MAX FUNDING]
Unemployment Benefit [MAX FUNDING]
State Schools [MAX FUNDING]
State Health Service [MAX FUNDING]
State Pensions [MAX FUNDING]
State Housing [MAX FUNDING]
Winter Fuel Subsidy [MAX FUNDING]

Lower Unemployment as much as you can
Socialist Paradise
Equality must be >85%
Working Week must be be <44%
Poverty must be <25%

Suggest Policies
Income Tax
Labour Laws [PRO-UNION]
Free School Meals [MAX FUNDING]
Free eye tests [MAX FUNDING]
State Health Service [MAX FUNDING]
State Schools [MAX FUNDING]
Legal Aid [MAX FUNDING]
Food Stamps [MAX FUNDING]
Sovereign Wealth
Pay back your countries debt.

Suggested Policies
Income Tax [66%]
Surveillance Society
Policies:
ID Cards [HEAVILY ENFORCED]
CCTV Cameras [FACIAL RECOGNITION]
Intelligence Services [MAX FUNDING]
Internet Censorship [ALL TRAFFIC MONITORED]
Wiretapping [UNIVERSAL MONITORING]
Prisoner Tagging [MAX FUNDING]
Speed Cameras [EVERYWHERE]
Police Drones [MAX FUNDING]
Survivor
Survive 5 assasination attempts.

Piss off a political group to make them into extremists, invest heavily into security and wait. Or just get lucky.
Technological Superiority
Education >84%
Technology >95%

Required Policies:
Space Program [SPACE STATION]
Robotics Research Grants [MAX FUNDING]

Suggested Policies
Technology Grants [MAX FUNDING]
Technology Colleges [MAX FUNDING]
State Schools [MAX FUNDING]
Science Funding [MAX FUNDING]
University Grants [GENEROUS GRANTS]

True Patriot
Patriots must be >100% happy
Patriots must make up >100% of populations

Suggested Policies:
Military Spending [OVERWHELMING FORCE]
Space Program [SPACE STATION]
Mars Program [MARS BASE]
National Armed Forces Week [MAX FUNDING]
Border Controls [RETINAL SCANS]

No Foreign Aid or Foreign Investor Tax Breaks
World Stage
Win an election in all 6 default countries

United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States, Canada and Australia.
38 Comments
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V-Tech 19 Nov, 2024 @ 8:50pm 
For Apathetic Electorate, a developer commented in another thread that the actual requirement is more than 50% of the populace not voting and you still win. Has this changed?
fakeloo 27 Jun, 2024 @ 12:09am 
For the Narcotic Economy achievement:
The recreational drug tax does not have to be your main source of income, it just has to make up more than 10% of your income. The source for this is the developer's own blog [www.positech.co.uk].

Fortunately, "income" does NOT include government borrowing, as the pie chart in the income tab might suggest. So you don't need a balanced budget from which 10% of your income is from the drug tax, you just need enough money from the drug tax to qualify once you start cancelling your other taxes.

Here's a screenshot of my income after unlocking the achievement, note that the budget isn't even remotely balanced and that the corporation tax still beats out my drug tax handily: https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3276340161
Seeker22 19 May, 2024 @ 6:15pm 
Military State requires 8 turns of >80% military police, and military spending > 25% of total expenditure instead of 50%
Ruffus Jubei 22 Jun, 2023 @ 11:55am 
The only thing i can add to this is for the No Crime Utopia achievement I only had Police Force, Intelligence, and Armed Police at max or close to max and the achievement popped in the first 3 years.
UZI Bitch! 19 Feb, 2022 @ 7:14am 
Any idea on how to reach "Popular Leader" in Democracy Africa, since it does not contain any steam workshop?
Janus 21 Jun, 2020 @ 3:43am 
At the present you need 100% Agrar population for the achievement Agrarian Society. Tested just now.
Mazandarania Talaksin 5 Aug, 2018 @ 12:46pm 
Great! Thanks a lot.
Lapom 23 Jun, 2018 @ 7:27pm 
@HammerTime I just got Apathetic Electorate in Democracy 3 Africa as well. Use the policies to decrease the voters from either your party or opposition. If someone is neutral about your governance, they won't turn up for voting. So, if too many people are turning up, either create policies that your supporters dislike or policies that your opposition likes.
Lapom 23 Jun, 2018 @ 5:54am 
@HammerTime Create a new game and set your political apathy to 100%. Make sure all of the groups neither like or dislike you. With luck, more than 50% of the voters won't turn up and the ones that do vote for you.
HammerTime 23 Jun, 2018 @ 3:08am 
@Ongoingwhy I haven't played the game in a long time so how did you manage to get less than 50% to vote?