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Learn how to run a Banana Republic

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Simply complete the tutorial from the Main Menu

Prove your governing skills on 15 different islands in Campaign mode

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As the achievement detail says, you must complete all 15 islands in Campaign mode. This is the achievement that takes the longest time to complete.

Build an Airport

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Whenever you have an Airport available, simply construct one to unlock this achievement.

Build a Skyscraper Hotel

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When you have this available, construct it on your island. Building a hotel requires that you have either a Tourist Dock or an Airport planned somewhere (they do not have to be built).

Issue 5 kill orders in one game

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This require Soldiers, if you do not have any, you cannot issue a kill order. Anyway, to issue a kill order, highligh a citizen with X, navigate to Politics using either Bumpers, then select the Eliminate. Do this with 5 tropicans.

Bribe 10 citizens in one game

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Build a bank, then select 10 citizens to bribe with $1,000. The bankers will get on it, and once they've finished bribing the citizens, the achievement unlocks.

Arrange 15 "Accidents" in one game

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Once you establish the Secret Police (the Secret Police edict must be activated!) in an HQ, you can arrange "accidents", meaning killing off citizens. Select 15 random citizens to kill off with the accident option in Politics, then fast forward a few years. It takes a while for the secret agents to kill off the citizens. Beware, this action is costly, as the price is $3,000 per "accident"!

Have over $20 000 in your Swiss Bank account

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See Filthy Rich

Have over $50 000 in your Swiss Bank account

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See Filthy Rich

Have over $100 000 in your swiss Bank account

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There is an campaign island that requires you to amass $75 000 into your Swiss Bank account before the end of your mandate, so you should combine this achievement with that island.

Right from the start of a game, quickly activate the Building Permit edict, which will automatically insert 10% of any building's cost into your Swiss Bank account. Once you have a thriving economy, build several banks with the Slush Fund option. The more banks you have, the more money you will get into your Slush Fund. Just make sure you don't fall into debt, as the banks will be useless then.

You could also make Ancient Ruins into Excavation Site, as this will generate profit to your Swiss Bank. The Childhood Museum can also be set to the Retirement Fund for extra profit.

Finish a game with overall Happiness of your citizens above 70%

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Quite the annoying achievement, as the citizens are a bunch of spoiled brats! You must try to please your citizens by improving several aspects of their daily lives. You can check your Almanac (Right Trigger + Y) in the People tab how happy your citizens are. Clicking on Average Happiness provides in depth details, covering which aspects are raising or lowering the average happiness. A few hints on how to raise the average happiness

Food Quality
First of all you must be able to provide a lot of food, so that noone is starving. You will need plenty of Ranches, Farms and Fishermen's Wharves. Once you are confident you can provide enough food, boost your Food Quality by activating the Food for the People edict.

Housing Quality
You will need a ton of Condominiums and Mansions for this one. Houses are fine, a few Apartment Blocks are acceptable, but steer clear of anything else! Make sure all of your citizens are living in top class houses, even if this means lowering the rent all the way to 0. Shacks kills this aspect significantly, so make sure you don't have any!

Religion Quality
Build as many Cathedrals as you can, and add some Churches into the mix. You can boost this quality by activating the Papal Visit edict

Entertainment
Movie Theatres, Gourmet Restaurants, Night Clubs, Casinos all improves this quality. Cabarets will also provide some quality entertainment. You can also activate The Headliner. If you can handle the increased crime, go for Mardi Gras as well. If you decide to go for the Sports Complex, which shouldn't be at all neccesary, you can also activate the Pan-Caribbean Games edict, but in my opinion the Sports Complex is just a waste of good money. Try to have as many Upscale Dress Code buildings as possible, but be sure to have some No Dress Code buildings so the lower class citizens may visit them. Also your restaurants should have Linen Table Cloths!

Health Care Quality
Not at all hard to increase, just build lots of Hospitals.

Crime Safety
Use your overlay (Right Trigger + X), Choose Crime under the People tab, and place Police Stations wherever Crime is present.

Environment
In my opinion the hardest quality to improve. You will need polluting industry and Power Plants to be able to get enough money and electricity to support your work towards 70% happiness, which in turn reduces the environment. Having the Green Thumb quality on your avatar will help improving this quality, and building a Botanical Garden. You should also activate the Pollution Standard edict, and improve the Beauty of the island by placing decorations (check your Overlay, Right Trigger + X, Island Conditions, Beauty where to improve). The Anti-Litter Ordnance will also reduce pollution, but at the same time it will decrease Liberty, so you will need Newspapers/Radio/TV Stations present to counter this effect.

Liberty
As you most likely will have Police Stations and Military buildings all over the place, you should have the Sensitivity Training edict activated to reduce their negative impact on Liberty. In the areas where you have a lot of citizens, you should build TV Stations and Radio Stations, and use the BBC and the Radio Free Tropico channels wisely, as this will give you a huge Liberty boost. Keep an eye on your Overlay (Right Trigger + X, People, Liberty) to see if there are any areas that are in need of a Station.

Job Quality
This quality has strong ties with the wages you are paying. The higher wages you pay, the higher the job quality. You can also change the Work Method in your Teamster's/Construction Offices, industries, etc from Sweat Shop to Easy-Does-It will improve Job Quality. The factories also has Job Quality boosting options, such as the Skylights. Temporary boosts can be given by having your Avatar visit various buildings.

Respect
Improving Respect is quite easy, actually. Doing good with the other qualities will help increasing this quality automatically. Edicts that affects this in a positive way is Social Security, Tax Cut (for 3 years), Geographic TV Special (for 3 years), Papal Visit (for 3 years). You can also set your Movie Theatres, TV Stations, Radio Stations to spread respect increasing material. Giving speeches from your Palace will also temporarily increase the bypassers' respect.

General hints
* Always keep a close eye with your Almanac in order to know what to work on next. Try to get the easier qualities up to at least 70 before working on the harder ones, but make sure Food, Housing and Health Care are as high as possible at all times.
* If you are closing in on the end of your mandate and you are falling a little behind on your respect, you should do whatever you can to boost your citizen's happiness. Turning the wages for all the workers (uneducated, high school graduates, and college graduates) to the max allowed wage (25 if you're a cheapskate - not recommended!) will improve Job Quality significantly. Activating Tax Cut, Social Security, Bribe Faction Leaders, Geographic TV Special, Papal Visit will greatly boost Respect.

Good luck with this achievement!

Finish a "Rebel Yell" Sandbox game.

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Simply start up a Sandbox game with God Mode off and Rebel Yell on. The other settings aren't that important. You could also have the Game Lenght at minimum.

Construct 3 different industry buildings in one game

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Just pick 3 buildings from the Industry tab in your building menu, and build them.

Issue 200 edicts

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This achievement accumulates over all of your games. Usually by normal gameplay, this should unlock naturally, if you use edicts on a regular basis. This can also be boosted by constantly activating/deactivating/reactivating either the Military Modernization edict or the Wiretapping edict.

Win 80% of the votes in Elections

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Make sure you please the citizens of your island with housing, entertainment, religious buildings, army base, etc. Activate edicts that will improve your respect, such as Social Security and Tax Cut. Use your election speech wisely, listen to your citizens and promise to meet their demands! During the election period, you will see how many votes you will get in comparision to your opponent. If your vote percentage is below 80%, it's time to activate those edicts. With planning, you should be able to get 80% without much hassle.

Make an alliance with the US

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See Comrade Presidente

Make an alliance with the USSR

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Once you have a good relationship with either superpower, you can make an alliance with them by using the alliance with the US/USSR edict. You can see the relationship with the superpower by checking out your Almanac, under the Politics tab. Here you can click on the supwerpowers' name to see what affects your relationship to them. If your relationship to both is good enough to ally them, save your game, make an alliance with one, then re-load to make an alliance with the other.

Survive 10 Hurricanes and Earthquakes

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This achievement is not an accumulative one! This can be done The Cursed Island during campaign. You should be able to encounter 10 disasters during normal playthrough, but to be sure, you can use a save/load trick, as the weather condition is random. You should play this level normally so that you can get a steady income flow and make your citizens happy, while you're waiting for the disasters. I started off with building a few buildings (tobacco farms, cigar factory, church, and so on), and once I had them laid down, I saved and fast forwarded until a disaster struck the island. If no disaster hit the island, I reloaded and fast forwarded again, until either an earthquake or a hurricane made it's appearance. Then I expanded some more, and saved again, and fastforwarded. I repeated this process until the achievement unlocked.

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There are two guaranteed earthquakes; one if you decide to expel a voodoo lady when prompted to deal with her, and one if you allow a cultist movement to settle on the island.

Suppress a Military Coup

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If you manage to piss your citizens off enough, and have unhappy militarists (very likely when you're new to this game!), the military will soon enough try to take power. Once you see the message that says that there's a Coup de Etat, immediately save your game. If your Loyalists are able to beat down the Traitors, you will get the achievement. Otherwise, re-load and re-try. You can also save during the battle if you manage to kill one of the traitors.

Deal with a bomb threat

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At some point during a game, when you have atagonized your citizens enough to become rebels, you might be asked to deal with a bomb threat where you have to decide whether to pay a ransom, disarm the bomb or let the building blow up. Picking any of these alternatives will unlock the achievement.

Resolve a hostage situation

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Just like Red Wire, Green Wire a hostage situation might occur when you've antagonized your citizens enough to become rebels. You need to build either a Tourist Dock or an Airport, then a Hotel, piss your citizens/rebels off, then wait for a chance to solve a hostage situation.

Establish Secret Police

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Once you have a police station, you can activate the secret police edict. Choose a building as the secret police's HQ, and the achievement pops.

Survive an assassination attempt

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At some point, if you have a bad relationship with the US or the USSR, there might be an assassination attempt against you. You will have three options; blame it on the US/USSR, calm the situation down, or issue the Martial Law edict. Choosing any of these options will unlock the achievement.

Address the people from the balcony of your Palace

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Simply hold down Right Trigger and press B, then move your avatar to your palace. Your avatar will automatically give a speech. Once the speech is over, the achievement unlocks.

Fulfill an Election Promise

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When you hold an election speech, make a promise you intend to keep. For example, promise you will build an armory. Once you win the election, simply build an armory to unlock the achievement.

Earn $100 000 from Oil export

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On any island that is rich with Oil, you should build several Oil Wells and Oil Refineries (place this on the shore line nearby an oil spot in the ocean). Earning a hundred large is quite easy with oil, so once you have everything up and running, you should have the achievement in no time.

Become a leading exporter of tropical fruits

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Simply complete the first campaign island, export 10000 agricultural units.

Finish your mandate on 5 different islands in Campaign mode

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Finish any 5 campaign islands.

Build a Power Plant

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Simply build a Power Plant to unlock this achievement.

Have population of over 250 and no Shacks

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You must first get a population of over 250. This can easily be done by having an Immigration Office set to Open Doors, and by having plenty of food. Build alot of housing, preferrably Tenements with rent set to 0. If you have over 250 citizens, but still many Shacks, simply go about demolishing every shack in sight.

Arrest 20 citizens in one game

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Once you've built a police station and a prison, you will be able to arrest your citizens. Highlight 20 random citizens on the island with X, use either Bumpers to navigate to Politics, then select the handcuff symbol. Once you've ordered 20 people to be arrested, the achievement unlocks.

Finish a game with respect of all factions above 70

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You will need to please all the factions, and increase their respect to over 70. The different factions will appreciate different things, for example the Capitalists will appreciate not being in debt, the Militarists appreciates Armories/Army bases, Religious Churches and Cathedrals, and so on. You can see the different factions' respect by going into your Almanac, and looking at the Politics tab. By highlighting a faction and pressing A, you can see why they are respecting - or not respecting - you enough, and what you can do to strenghten your relations to them. If you are in the finishing stage of a game, and the factions aren't respecting you enough, activate edicts that will raise respect and quality of life. Papal visit, Food for the People, Social Security are examples of good edicts to issue.

Lead 10 different islands to prosperity in Campaign mode

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Finish any 10 islands in Campaign mode.

Finish a Sandbox game in God mode

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Just start up a Sandbox game with Game Length set to minimum (10 years) and God Mode on. Once your game starts, simply fast forward all 10 years. Keep in mind that you cannot get any other achievement while God Mode is activated, so ignore the other achievements.

Finish an online Challenge

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This isn't an online game, it's just a challenge to compete scores with other players. In the main menu, select Challenges. Pick any of the challenges and concentrate on fulfilling the challenge's goal. Personally, I went for the Pineapple King, which I completed with 8 farms and 20+ canneries.

Finish a "Free Elections" Sandbox game

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Simply start a Sandbox game with Free Elections activated. You can tweak the other settings to your liking. This achievement is highly doable with Game Length set to 10 years.

Construct 1337 buildings

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This achievement is accumulative. You should make good progress towards this achievement by playing to unlock the other achievements. You can also boost this achievement at any time by building a lot of decorations, as these count towards the achievement.

Earn $1 000 000 from industry in a single game

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Exploit all of the resources that your island has. Build farms that harvest tobacco/sugar and build Cigar Factories and Rum Distilleries. Build Oil Wells and Oil Refineries, Mines that mine Bauxite and Iron, and Mines that mine Gold combined with Jewelery Factories. You can also activate the Industry Ad Campaign edict to boost the export prices. Exporting $1 000 000 of industry products is quite easy, so it shouldn't take too long.

Win a battle against the Rebels

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When you've pissed off your citizens enough by not building enough housing, providing enough entertainment/food, and so on, some will eventually become rebels. This is highly likely to happen in the beginning of any game. After a while the rebels will launch attacks against any of your money making buildings (farms, mines, industry), and eventually the palace. Once you see the message that says "Rebel Attack", immediately save your game and see if your soldiers can beat the rebels. If not, re-load your savegame and retry.

Suppress an uprising

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Quite the annoying achievement, as "forcing" your citizens to an uprise is harder than expected. Obviously, playing a Sandbox game is the easier way to achieve this. What I did, was start a Sandbox game with the following settings:
Map: A Hard one (not sure if it matters, but when I chose an Easy one, I could never raise the Uprising Threat level - which you can see in your Almanac under the Politics tab - higher than Low)

Island Settings
Political Stability: Lowest @ Very Dangerous
World Economy: Highest @ 100%/80%
Tourism: Neutral @ 0%
Game Lenght: Highest @ 1950 - 2000
Population: Lowest @ 30
Random Events: Lowest @ None
A Far Away Place: On
Rebel Yell: Off
Free Elections: Off
Immigrants Out: On
God Mode: Off

Avatar Traits
Background: Booze Baron
Rise to power: Installed by KGB
Qualities: Athletic, Diplomatic
Flaws: Paranoid, Cheapskate

Tactics
The key to force an uprising is to have only a few, unhappy citizens on your island. When you start off, fire everyone from their jobs, except from the constructors. Once you have fired the workers, click on the X button in the first empty worker's spot in all buildings, to prevent people from taking the jobs. Build an Immigration Office with politics set to Tropico First (and the free Diplomatic Ministry, if you'd like to. This could come in handy if you need to build relations to the superpowers). Make sure you prevent people from getting these jobs, as well. Next construct a Ranch, and prevent people from working in it. Then start tearing everything down, except from the buildings you just built. Fire each builder and prevent people from taking these jobs.

Starvation should kill off most of your people. Once you go low to about 10, you can open up one spot in the Ranch, to let a worker make one supply of food. Now, just fast forward in time until the uprising threat windows start popping up. Continously demolish any shack that pops up, as they increase Housing Quality.

If the number of citizens drop below 5, set your immigration politics to Open Doors, and allow a worker to make one supply of food in your Ranch. Once the immigrants lands on your soil, set your politics to Tropico First

Your citizens happiness should soon be dropping below 30%, which indicates an uprising might be around the corner. If your Uprising Threat level is High, and there's no uprising occurs after some years, set your immigration politics to Open Doors again, to allow new, and hopefully treacherous people to come to the island. Once the uprising happens, save your game, and reload if you are unable to win the battle.

When I did this, it took me 12 years to get an uprising. With Uprising Threat level at High, I had 4 citizens at <20% happiness for a few years without an uprising. I opened up the borders to allow 6 new immigrants, of which 3 starved to death, before they actually made an uprising. I ended the game in 1962 with 7 citizens with 29% overall happiness.

Rush the construction of 5 buildings

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When constructing new buildings, move your avatar to the construction site. This will speed up the building process. Do this with 5 different buildings.

Make 10 official visits to buildings

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Make 10 visits to different buildings (not including houses, construction office, teamster's office). This will boost service/production quality for a period of time, indicated by a sun symbol.

Praise yourself in an Election Speech

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When prompted whether you want to hold an election or not, select the option that reads "Yes, with an election speech". You will be given three points to address in your speech. In the Praise-section, select Yourself.

Construct at least 1000 meters of roads and 4 Garages

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This achievement will unlock naturally while playing the game. Just make sure you have 4 Garages. Roads you should constantly build to your buildings.

Decorate a soldier with a medal

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Make your avatar visit an Armory with a General working there. This will make your avatar decorate a soldier with a medal.

Construct 200 buildings on one island

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This achievement looks like a pain, but it's really not! Decorations count towards the achievement, so simply construct a ton of decorations on your island. When you're sure that you've passed 200 "buildings", simply exit constructing mode to unlock the achievement. As long as you're in building mode, the achievement will not unlock.

Have more than 20 soldiers and generals in one game

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For this achievement you should have one fully operational High School and one fully operational College. Once you have those to going, build several Armories and Guard Stations. Supply with Army Bases to keep the militarists happy. Once you have more than 20 soldiers/generals, the achievement unlocks.

Earn $1 000 000 from tourism profits in a single game

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Earning $1 000 000 is not as easy as it sounds, as tourism generates cash more slowly than industry. But it's not completely impossible! You should have as many Airports as you can spare, and a few tourist docks. Build the Skyscraper Hotel, then as many Beach Villas (as these bring in tons of cash), and Luxury Hotels. I had one Skyscraper, five or six Luxury Hotels and about 20 Beach Villas (all with auto 100% occupancy) when I completed this achievement. I also had a few attractions to keep the tourists happy, but most of my money was made from hotels. Once you have everything up and running, lean back and watch the cash pour in.

Build all Tourist Attractions on one island

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Build all 9 attractions to unlock this achievement.