Free money from your country: the nine government bonuses

Assalam o alaikum and hello to all. I have been playing for over a month now, and there is one thing I wish I had understood much earlier: your country actually pays you small rewards for ordinary things you are already doing. These are called government bonuses, and kindly let me explain the full set, because free money should not be ignored. A bonus is simply a small payout that the country gives you when you do a certain thing. The best part is that you do not have to claim it or chase it or remember to collect it. When the matching event happens to you, the treasury pays you automatically. It just lands in your balance. Every bonus your country offers is listed on the Bonuses page along with its current amount, so that one page is where you go to see what your country rewards, and how generously. Do note that there are exactly nine government bonuses, no more and no fewer. Here is the complete list: Population bonus - paid on a town's population. Energy bonus - tied to a citizen's energy. Affiliates bonus - for inviting players you referred to the game. Level up bonus - paid when you level up. New building bonus - paid when you finish a new building. New citizen bonus - paid when a town gains a citizen. Occupied towns bonus - for occupied towns. Upgrade bonus - paid when you upgrade a building. And the Vote bonus - paid when you vote on a law. Please look carefully at that list, because there is a very friendly detail hiding in it. The game pays you, in some countries, simply for taking part. The Vote bonus rewards you just for voting on a law - so participating in politics can put money straight in your pocket. The Level up, New building and Upgrade bonuses reward the ordinary honest progress you make just by playing each day. None of these require special effort or any trick. It is the country quietly thanking you for being an active citizen. Now an important point, so you understand WHY countries differ. Every one of these nine amounts is set by law and paid out of the budget. None is fixed by the game at some secret value. The citizens themselves decide each amount through voting. So if one country pays a generous New citizen bonus, it is because its citizens passed a law to set it that high. Another country may pay almost nothing for the same event. This is why, when you scout a country before moving, you should kindly check its Bonuses page - it tells you a great deal about how the place treats its citizens. There is a trade-off at the heart of all this, and it is worth understanding. Raise a bonus and you attract more citizens to the country - but you drain the treasury faster. Lower it and you save money - but you give people less reason to come and stay. There is no perfect setting; every level is a balance between attracting people and protecting the pot. The taxes fill the budget, the budget pays the bonuses, the bonuses draw people in, and the people vote on it all. It is one connected machine. So my humble advice: open your Bonuses page today and see what your country pays. Then go and vote, level up, build - and watch the small rewards land. Free money, just for playing well. Shukriya for reading.