Treasury (Kaban ng Bayan)

The Kaban ng Bayan is the central resource of the game. It is always publicly visible (top-right of play area).

It is effectively unlimited in the sense that depleting it never ends the game (there is no bankruptcy win condition). Players still need the yearly accounting because Kaban ng Bayan drives the public “total decrease last Year” signal that the whole deduction race (COA audit + inference) depends on.

What Changes It

Event	Direction	Visibility
Revenue collection	↑ +1 per active non-jailed player	Public
Midnight Transaction (theft)	↓ fixed amount (if Corrupt choose to steal)	Private — announced next Year
Project cost (if succeeded)	↓ printed on project card	Private — announced next Year

Role in the Win Logic (why Treasury exists at all)

Treasury is not a win/lose counter. You never lose just because the Kaban ng Bayan goes low — the game only ends via:

• Good reaching the Approved Public Spending threshold
• Bad reaching the Corruption Fund threshold
• the Jail Strike System elimination triggers

So what does Treasury do?

1. It converts hidden actions into a public, one-year-lagged signal.
   • Each Year, players are told the public “total decrease last Year”.
   • That decrease is computed from hidden events (the theft, if any, plus the project cost if a project succeeded).
2. It is the bookkeeping needed for COA inference.
   • COA later reveals official spending + whether kickbacks occurred.
   • Players compare COA’s official spending to the public decrease to infer whether theft likely happened and how much (roughly).
3. It keeps pacing consistent even though there is no bankruptcy loss.
   • Revenue refills the Kaban ng Bayan every Year.
   • Jail/suspension matters because suspended players contribute no revenue, changing the size of future signals.

What Players See

• Current total — always visible.
• Previous Year's total decrease — announced at the start of each Public Phase (Year 2+).

The decrease figure bundles theft and project cost together. Players cannot tell how much was stolen vs. spent on projects from the announcement alone — that's the COA's job.

The COA gap

The COA's audit reveals official project spending and whether a kickback occurred. By subtracting that from the public decrease, COA can tell whether theft happened and roughly how much.

Example: public decrease = 7, COA audit shows spending = 4 → estimated theft = 3. If Corrupt chose not to steal that year, decrease = project cost only. (Note that Suhol and Tokhang costs are deducted from the Corruption Fund, not the Kaban ng Bayan, so they do not show up in the public decrease.)

Steal Amounts (When Corrupt Choose to Steal)

Stealing requires unanimous agreement from all free Corrupt. The steal amount equals the number of free Corrupt Politicians.

Free Corrupt Politicians	Amount Stolen
3	3
2	2
1	1

Stealing is optional each Year. Stolen amount is added to the Corruption Fund tracker and deducted from the Kaban ng Bayan privately.

For how/when Corrupt players choose to steal, and for the Suhol / Tokhang spend options, see Corrupt Politician.