The Council (EU2012)

The Council consists of a group of 16 countries that fund and support the XCOM Project. The Council, represented by its shadowy spokesman, will make regular contact with the Commander (the player) via the Situation Room. The Council has three primary reasons to contact XCOM:

• Propose a new Council Mission.
• Present a special request from a member nation asking that XCOM supply them with certain items in exchange for a generous reward (Credits, Engineers, Scientists, or a new, highly ranked Soldier). This request will remain available for fulfillment for 20 days.
• Deliver the monthly report that evaluates and rewards the XCOM Project's activities.

Council Report and Funding

Each month the Council issues a report that details the XCOM Project's successes, failures and the global panic levels. Each council member nation has a panic level which increases if alien activity occurs in that country or parent continent that the player ignored or failed to contain. Once the panic level reaches a critical level, Council members will pull out from the XCOM Project permanently, which will affect the monthly funding. If eight members pull out of the Project, the game effectively ends in a defeat. Launching a Satellite will lower the panic level of a member country by two. Once a continent has full satellite coverage, no abduction missions will spawn for that continent anymore. Current panic levels and satellite coverage can be monitored from the Situation Room.

Coinciding with the monthly Council report and letter grade, the Council distributes rewards of cash funding and additional Scientists and Engineers. XCOM earns these monthly rewards based primarily on the satellite coverage over individual members; these rewards are detailed in the chart below.

The starting funding and the monthly reward amount XCOM receives combines a basic funding amount based on difficulty level (see the table on the right) with the funding gained from satellite coverage (the country in which your base is located starts with a satellite overhead).

Easy	Normal	Classic	Impossible
§175	§175	§75	§75

Country Funding by Continent (+50% Easy difficulty)

Africa	Asia	Europe	North America	South America
Egypt: §70 South Africa: §80 Nigeria: §100	China: §100 Japan: §100 India: §60 Australia: §60	United Kingdom: §100 Russia: §150 France: §80 Germany: §100	United States: §180 Canada: §100 Mexico: §50	Argentina: §70 Brazil: §80
Ʃ §250	Ʃ §320	Ʃ §430	Ʃ §330	Ʃ §150

The gross amount of starting and monthly funds received each month are also adjusted according to difficulty level as shown in the table on the right.

Easy	Normal	Classic	Impossible
x1.5	x1	x1	x1