How To Increase Legitimacy In Victoria 3
If you want a successful government, you will need to know how to increase Legitimacy in Victoria 3, as it directly relates to passing legislation and low Legitimacy can make your job of stewarding your nation into a brighter future even harder. Victoria 3 is a challenging grand strategy that lets you control a country through the turbulent Industrial Revolution, forcing you to think about your economy, diplomacy, population, and more. So if you're looking for an explainer of how to increase Legitimacy in Victoria 3, we've got you covered.
- Make sure to also check out how to increase Literacy in Victoria 3, so you can educate your population more.
How To Increase Legitimacy In Victoria 3
Click to enlargeIn Victoria 3, your Legitimacy is a measure of how much the interest group's in government fit with the country's established laws, meaning if you have laws that are supported by your government, your Legitimacy will be higher, and vice versa. There are other aspects that affect your Legitimacy, such as raising or lowering taxes, and passing specific laws can give you different Legitimacy modifiers regardless of who's in power.
You'll want your Legitimacy to be as high as possible, as low Legitimacy will increase the time it takes between attempts to enact new laws. Generally, this will make it harder for your government to actually get anything done, causing you to lag behind other nations as they modernise quicker.
A good way to get a quick boost of Legitimacy is to lower taxes, but this can lead to issues regarding your nation's finances in the long run, so this method should only be used when you can take the financial hit.
Click to enlargeA better way of raising your Legitimacy is to take a look at the specific ideologies of the interest groups in power, check what laws they support, and attempt to enact them. You can do this by selecting the interest group from the Politics Overview screen. Hovering over their happiness modifier will also directly tell you which laws they currently approve or disapprove of.
Below, we'll list all of the laws that can affect Legitimacy, along with their specific modifiers:
Click to enlargeGovernance Principles
- Monarchy
- +20 Legitimacy from including Head of State in government
- +0.1 Legitimacy from government clout
- Presidential Republic
- +15 Legitimacy from including Head of State in government
- -10% reduced Legitimacy penalty from size of government
- +0.2 Legitimacy from government clout
- Parliamentary Republic
- +10 Legitimacy from including Head of State in government
- -25% reduced Legitimacy penalty from size of government
- +0.2 Legitimacy from government clout
- Theocracy
- +20 Legitimacy from including Head of State in government
- +0.1 Legitimacy from government clout
- Council Republic
- +0.4 Legitimacy from government clout
Distribution of Power
- Autocracy
- +30 Legitimacy from including Head of State in government.
- Oligarchy
- +25 Legitimacy from including Head of State in government
- Landed Voting
- +20 Legitimacy
- Wealth Voting
- +20 Legitimacy
- Census Suffrage
- +20 Legitimacy
- Universal Suffrage
- +20 Legitimacy
- Anarchy
- +10 Legitimacy
That's all for our breakdown of how to increase Legitimacy in Victoria 3, and now you should have an idea of how to keep your Legitimacy high and enact laws quicker.
Why not also take a look how to increase Authority in Victoria 3, which is an important measure of how well you can effect internal change in your nation.
