Happiness

Happiness is a measure of how happy a nation's population is. Happiness is not calculated by a fixed formula, but rather it is a dynamic variable that is influenced by a nation's condition over time. Democracies have the highest base happiness, while Dictatorships have the lowest. Changing values are presented in per-day terms but are calculated in real-time at the per-second level.

Base Happiness
The baseline for how happiness changes per day is a nation's base happiness. Base happiness is determined by the nation's technical government type. The rate at which base happiness increases a nation's happiness per day is the base happiness divided by 80.

Luxuries
For each Luxury resource that a nation has available, happiness will increase by 0.25 per day, for a maximum of 1 per day when all four luxury resources are available.

Negative Factors
Negative factors are more prevalent than postive factors. As a general rule, populations are fickle and will become unhappy quickly, while building happiness takes time.

Water
When a population is deprived of Water its happiness will drop at a rate of 5 per day.

Grain
When a population is deprived of Grain its happiness will drop at a rate of 3 per day.

Fish
When a population is deprived of Fish its happiness will drop at a rate of 3 per day.

Power
When a population is without Power its happiness will drop at a rate of 2 per day.