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	Palace
	Cost :: Cannot be constructed Requirements :: Already built Upgrades :: None Income :: None Options :: Normal training – Units acquire experience at normal, moderate rates. Special-Op training – Units acquire experience 50% faster, but rigorous training regimen decreases job happiness by 15%. Staff :: 4 Soldiers Notes :: If your palace is captured or destroyed, the game is over. Soldiers exert govenment control, reducing uprising risk and fighting rebels.
	Immigration Office
	Cost :: $2,500 Requirements :: None Upgrades :: None Income :: None Options :: Open-door immigration – Raises immigration level by x%. Skilled workers welcome – x% of immigrants have high school education, y% have college education. Tropico first – Reduces immigration by x%. Love it or leave it – Raises emigration by x%. (This can be a safety valve – generally the most dissatisfied folks leave.) Nobody gets out of here alive – Reduces emigration by x%. Staff :: 2 Bureaucrats Notes :: Only one allowed. The more bureaucrats, and the higher skilled they are, the greater the immigration effect.
	Diplomatic Ministry
	Cost :: $5,000 Requirements :: None Upgrades :: None Income :: None Options :: Neutral policies – Will slowly increase relations with both the U.S. and Russia by x% each. Pro-American policies – Will slowly increase relations with the U.S. by x%, but hurt Russian relations by y%. Pro-Russian policies – Will slowly increase relations with Russia by x%, but hurt U.S. relations by y%. Staff :: 3 Bureaucrats Notes :: Only one allowed. The more bureaucrats, and the higher skilled they are, the greater the foreign policy effect.
	Police Station
	Cost :: $2,000 Requirements :: None Upgrades :: None Income :: None Options :: Normal training – Units acquire experience at normal, moderate rates. Special-Op training – Units acquire experience 50% faster, but rigorous training regimen decreases job happiness by 15%. Staff :: 6 Policemen Info. :: Crime Rate Notes :: Police Station reduces crime slightly. Policemen patrol the nearby area, reducing crime further. Screenshot
	Prison
	Cost :: $3,000 Requirements :: Police Station Upgrades :: None Income :: None Options :: Use convict labor – Each prisoner produces license plates worth $5 per month. Re-education – Attempts to increase prisoner’s respect for the regime in the hope that upon release they won’t cause problems. Staff :: 2 Policemen Notes :: 8 Inmates per Prison; Allows use of the “Arrest” edict.
	Armory
	Cost :: $3,000 Requirements :: None Upgrades :: None Income :: None Options :: Normal training – Units acquire experience at normal, moderate rates. Special-Op training – Units acquire experience 50% faster, but rigorous training regimen decreases job happiness by 15%. Staff :: 3 Generals Notes :: Generals are required to build Guard Stations.
	Guard Station
	Cost :: $1,500 Requirements :: One General is required per Guard Station. Upgrades :: None Income :: None Options :: Normal training – Units acquire experience at normal, moderate rates. Special-Op training – Units acquire experience 50% faster, but rigorous training regimen decreases job happiness by 15%. Staff :: 3 Soldiers Info. :: Government Control Notes :: Soldiers exert govenment control, reducing uprising risk and fighting rebels. Screenshot
	Newspaper
	Cost :: $7,000 Requirements :: None Upgrades :: None Income :: Optional Options :: El Presidente’s Picayune – This paper’s in the presidente’s pocket (that’s you!). Endless stories about the glories of your rule increase your respect among the people, but reduce liberty. Free Press & Dispatch – A truly free newspaper. Enhances liberty for all your residents. Voice of the Worker – Increase your respect in the communist faction by x%, and also increases the portion of your population in the communist faction by about x%. Financial Times – Increase your respect in the capitalist faction by x%, and also increases the portion of your population in the capitalist faction by about x%. Soldado de Fortuna – Increase your respect in the military faction by x%, and also increases the portion of your population in the military faction by about x%. The Word of God – Increase your respect in the religious faction by x%, and also increases the portion of your population in the religious faction by about x%. Coupons N’ More – A foreign publisher will pay you x%/month per adult Tropican to reprint their coupons. Staff :: 3 Journalists Info. :: Radius of Influence Notes :: Only five allowed. The more journalists working here and the more skilled they are, the higher the effect (respect, liberty or income).
	Radio Station
	Cost :: $10,000 Requirements :: 10Mw Upgrades :: None Income :: Optional Options :: All Presidente, All Day – The people need to pay closer attention to your speeches. To that end, this format broadcasts your musings all day and night. Increases your respect among all the people by about x%. Radio Free Tropico – A free voice on the radio increases liberty by about x% for all within range… Menudo’s Greatest Hits – A foreign broadcaster will pay you x%/month per young Tropican (ages 4 to 25) to play their bubblegum pop. Baja Bachata – A foreign broadcaster will pay you x%/month per adult uneducated Tropican to play Bachata – the common people’s music. Ossified Opera – A foreign broadcaster will pay you x%/month per college educated Tropican to play high-brow opera. Staff :: 2 Journalists Info. :: Radius of Influence Notes :: Only four allowed. The more journalists working here and the more skilled they are, the higher the effect (respect, liberty or income).
	TV Station
	Cost :: $15,000 Requirements :: 15Mw Upgrades :: None Income :: Optional Options :: Your government, your friend – Lets the people see the shiny face of their nation’s leader a bit more. Increases your respect among all the people within range by about x%. BBC – An independent channel on TV increases liberty throughout the station’s range by x%. Learning with Larry – Doubles the rate at which your workers acquire experience. Yanqui Sitcoms – A foreign broadcaster will pay you x%/month per adult Tropican to show Gilligan’s Island reruns. 24 Hour Sumo Wrestling – A foreign broadcaster will pay you x%/month per adult uneducated male Tropican to show fat men bumping into each other. Russian Soap Operas – A foreign broadcaster will pay you x%/month per adult female Tropican to show reruns of ‘When Boris Met Bianca’. Staff :: 3 Journalists Info. :: Radius of Influence Notes :: Only six allowed. The more journalists working here and the more skilled they are, the higher the effect (respect, liberty or income).