Country Funding (EU)

The Funding you get from the council of funding nations is at first a critical part in offsetting your maintenance costs.

Starting Funding

Each game your starting monthly funding will be roughly $6 million, although the balance of which countries and areas it comes from can change to some extent from game to game. It can be worth checking this out when you start, as although commonly the first two areas to build bases in are Europe and North America, for some games you may find India, China, and Japan are all near their maximum levels and might want to take precedence in getting coverage before North America, especially if the US is contributing close to their minimum.

Country	Funding (/1000)
	Low*	High*	Average**
USA	600	1200	891
Russia	230	460	338
UK	240	480	353
France	320	640	473
Germany	250	500	368
Italy	160	320	233
Spain	140	280	203
China	245	490	361
Japan	400	800	592
India	150	300	218
Brazil	300	600	443
Australia	280	560	413
Nigeria	180	360	264
South Africa	310	620	458
Egypt	160	320	233
Canada	110	220	158

*These are not minimum or maximums, which can be around 100 higher or lower than these values, but the chance of getting values outside the range given grows exponentially
**Note the average is not the midpoint between the high and low funding, partly because of the distribution, and also because values below the low funding value are more common

For further details on how these values are generated see the xcomufo thread discussing it.

Monthly Funding Change

Each month the council review yours will demand a progress report from you, and once they have received it they make a group decision on whether to increase, decrease or hold your funding steady. This is based on the monthly rating which factors in XCOM's overall successes and failures for air and ground assaults. UFOs merely flying around the map make only very small impacts; one good mission will totally overwhelm this, at least in the early months. Successfully completed alien missions, especially Terror Missions, have serious consequences, though.

After the council has made its group decision, the majority of countries will follow the council's lead and adjust their funding. A few countries may consider their situation exceptional, due to very good or bad localised performance by XCOM (the presence of an alien base on their territory, a terror mission that succeeded, etc.).

It is possible for countries that are seeing particularly high alien activity to sign a pact with the aliens, in which case they will pull out of the council at the end of the month and cease funding you - completely and forever. The latest evidence from intel operatives suggests that aliens come to exert pacifying mind control over an entire government once the two meet in person to sign the pact. Consequently, there is no known way to regain the country's confidence. Clearly this is something to avoid, so ensure that you note any high levels of alien activity in an area and react accordingly. One of the best things to do is to deliberately try to shoot down UFOs in or near the country, if possible - both successful interceptions and recovery missions will help placate that country's government.

Country Satisfaction	Funding Change compared to last month
Happy	+5 to 20%
Satisfied	No change
Unhappy	-5 to 20%
Sign Pact	-100%, and will remain at 0 for rest of game

See Also

DIPLOM.DAT - Stores the current and past years funding, the monthly change, and other related information

External Links

Starting Funding, which contains Zombie's great thread on XcomUfo.