Projects

Projects are the primary mechanism through which Good advances toward the Approved Public Spending threshold — and through which Bad earns kickbacks into the Corruption Fund.

Project Card

Each Year the President chooses between two project cards (one small, one large). The card contains:

Field	Description
Project name	Flavor only
Project cost	Deducted from Kaban ng Bayan if succeeded; also the amount added to Approved Public Spending
Kickback	Fixed amount added to the Corruption Fund if a Corrupt Politician is on the committee and the project succeeds
Required committee size	Odd number: 1, 3, 5, or 7

Cost = Value

Project cost and project value are the same number. If a project costs 4, it also adds 4 to Approved Public Spending. There is no separate "value" field.

Small vs. Large

	Small Project	Large Project
Cost / Value	Lower (2–3)	Higher (4–6)
Kickback on card	1 – 2	3 – 5
Committee size	Smaller (1–3)	Larger (5–7)
Corruption opportunity	Less	More — larger pool for Corrupt to hide in

Full Project List

These are every project card currently in the pool. Each Year the President is offered one random Small card and one random Large card to choose between.

Small Projects

#	Name	Cost / Value	Kickback	Committee Size
S1	Barangay Road Repair	2	1	1
S2	Public School Supplies	2	1	3
S3	Community Health Center	3	1	3
S4	Street Lighting Project	2	2	1
S5	Water System Upgrade	3	2	3
S6	Daycare Center Construction	3	1	1
S7	Flood Control Drainage	2	2	3
S8	Public Market Renovation	3	2	3

Large Projects

#	Name	Cost / Value	Kickback	Committee Size
L1	National Highway Extension	5	4	7
L2	Provincial Hospital Expansion	4	3	5
L3	Mass Transit System	6	5	7
L4	Public University Campus	5	3	5
L5	Irrigation Dam Project	4	3	5
L6	Airport Terminal Upgrade	6	5	7
L7	Seaport Modernization	5	4	7
L8	Disaster Relief Housing	4	3	5

Reading the card

Cost / Value is the same number — it is deducted from the Kaban ng Bayan on success and also added to Approved Public Spending. The Kickback column is the bonus added to the Corruption Fund if any Corrupt Politician is on the committee when the project succeeds.

Committee Selection

• President selects 1, 3, 5, or 7 members (odd numbers only).
• Only active, non-suspended, non-eliminated players may be selected.
• The President may include themselves.

Committee Vote

Each selected committee member receives a secret vote slip and marks Support or Oppose.

• Majority Support (more than half) → project succeeds
• Tie or majority Oppose → project fails

Committee size	Votes needed to succeed
1	1
3	2
5	3
7	4

Resolution

Success:

1. Moderator deducts project cost from Kaban ng Bayan privately.
2. Approved Public Spending increases by project cost.
3. If any Corrupt on committee: add kickback printed on card to Corruption Fund. Flag COA report Kickback: Yes.
4. Record each committee member's vote (Support/Oppose) in the COA audit for next Year.
5. Announce: "The project succeeds. Approved Public Spending increases by [cost]."

Failure:

1. Nothing changes.
2. Store COA report: Spending: 0 · Kickback: No · Votes: [breakdown].
3. Announce: "The project has failed."

Information Signals

Committee vote breakdowns are recorded every Year — success or failure — and delivered to the COA the following Year. This means:

• A Corrupt who voted Support to earn a kickback is traceable by name in the next audit
• A Corrupt who voted Oppose to sabotage a project is also recorded — a pattern of Oppose votes from the same player across multiple Years is suspicious
• Suppress Audit hides the vote breakdown too — when suppressed, COA receives blank votes, not just a clean kickback result

This makes the Support/Oppose decision genuinely tense for Corrupt Politicians every time they are on a committee.

The full “President chooses → committee votes → project resolves” sequence is spelled out in Moderator Reference.