I feel like this suggestion doesn't quite fit the bill of adding a new government, but also doesn't exactly fit into tweaking existing governments, thus I'm putting this suggestion in its own topic.

This suggestion, Enhanced Governments, introduces additional benefits and drawbacks beyond the base adjustments to the existing government types.

Enhancing your government has 2 prerequisites and a cost:

20,000 Acres
$5,000,000 Net Worth
Pay 20,000,000

Once you have enhanced your government, you can not change governments for the rest of the game unless you die. Adjusted benefits for enhnaced governments are as follows:

Monarchy
+5% Food Production
-3% Expenses
+1% Maximum Technology

Fascism
+25% Food Production
+60% Oil Production
-10% PCI
-10% Max Population

Tyranny
+30% Attack Gains
-15% Military Upkeep Costs
-10% Max PCI
1 Turn per attack

Dictatorship
+30% Military Strength
+35% Spy Effectiveness
+50% Ghost Acres
-20% Construction Speed

Communism
+20% Technology Effectiveness
+5% Maximum Technology
+40% Industrial Production
+45% Market Size Sale Cap
8% Market Commissions

Theocracy
-30% Private Military Costs
+50% Construction Speed
-20% Maximum Technology
+60% Maximum Population
1.5x GDI Expenses

Republic
+50% Exploration Rate (After all, you need 20k acres to upgrade)
+30% Max PCI
-5% Military Strength

Democracy
0% Market Commissions
-25% To-Market times
+10% Maximum Technology
(2 turns per attack)

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Revised to lessen the blow of the drawbacks. Makes more sense for "Enhanced" government.

Several of these upgrades are really problematic. Some of them you wouldnt want at all depending on your strategy.

Like a demo casher/farmer wouldnt want the upgrade while still grabbing.

Tyranny is weird. Have you played a grabbing tyranny non-techer in 1a/FFA? You dont have income to fund such a growth already until you reach like 200k acres or something. This will make it take even longer.

Dict with -50% bpt?

IF these things were balanced, does the game really benefit from a mechanism like this?

Yeah, seems like the rough draft of this idea was a bit more rough than I thought. Perhaps instead of making the drawbacks worse, instead alleviate the burden of the drawbacks instead. Such as making the Dictatorship's Construction speed -20% instead of -33% and such

Oh and forgot to mention the upgrade would would be entirely optional.