By the end of my game as Russia, the Social Democrat Nicholas was still tsar and the average engineer had a higher standard of living than a Western European aristocrat lol

It's good but still easy to cheese and end up with crazy unbalanced global economy. Like my working class was consuming more luxury goods than the rest of the world combined by the end and the goods I needed were orders of magnitude greater than what's even available to extract.

Love the game, but it's definitely still needs balance (which I think they've addressed in some recent patches)