Public Order

Public Order is the state of emergency in which a country finds itself when facing the plague. There are six state of emergency about the current soiety in a country: Business as usual, General Disruption, Widespread Disorder, Close to anarchy, Total anarchy, and No longer exists.

Business as usual

• When you start a game, this shows in every country. Cure research runs at normal speed.

General Disruption

• When people are starting to die in that country.
• Cure research is starting to slow. The cure research speed in that country will start to slow down, showing as broken bottles. Sometimes this can happen after a natural disaster.
• This will show in the news as:
  • <Country> begins to break down.
  • Normal life in <Country> is beginning to break down due to <Plague Name>.

Widespread Disorder

• This shows when even more people in that country have died.
• Cure research speed slows down even more, but the closures still remain in place.

Close to Anarchy

• At this time, the country usually declares the martial law. About half of the people in that country have died. Cure research nearly stops in that country.

Total Anarchy

• When there are less then 20 percent are alive in that country, the cure research stops and the borders open.
• This shows in a pop-up as: <Country> in anarchy

No longer exists

• When everyone in that country has died, that country is considered destroyed.
• The news will say: <Country> government has collapsed.

City Cam

Main Article: City Cam

The public order also correlates to the city cams, showing the breakdown of society.

• If a country is healthy (Business as usual), the city cams show a regular day of life, with no trace of a plague.
• When a country is in general disruption, the city cam changes to a situation where police and/or some doctors are trying to do something about the plague. The camera's image starts to get a bit dirty/cracked and starts to get a slightly red hue.
• In the case that a country is in widespread disorder, the city cam changes, people are now rioting, it appears martial law is starting in some countries as shown from the tanks and helicopters and solders appearing. (Except for Sudan & New Guinea where in their widespread disorder cam, shows medic stations and people trying to cure the disease. And S.E Asia where it just shows a peaceful protest). The camera lens start to be noticeably cracked and in a red hue.
• At close to anarchy, the city cam stays the same however, the city cam lens its now becoming even more cracked and dirty, and now it's covered in an ominous crimson red making it very difficult to see what's going on in the country. The riots turned to violence and destruction, and that society is about to collapse.
• At total anarchy the city cam changes for the last time. its shows that everyone is dead, chaos has burned everything to the ground, tanks and leftovers of the measures taken to control the plague remain. Sometimes, in the City Cams of some countries, flags or banners appear containing messages written in the native language of the country, these messages usually say "A cure for us" or "Help", and its meant to show that the last people that are about to die are putting banners and cries for help that would never happen. In the ground the corpses of people can be seen in body bags or lying there. The City Cam stays that ominous red and is completely cracked, possibly showing that there are still people alive, fighting for what's left and little other reason.
• Finally, at no longer exists, the camera stays with the same image, however now in a muddy, decayed gray, with that same "no longer exist" image, however the image is now easier to see, likely because there are no one ransacking anymore, and the clear up shows a wasteland of corpses and rotting infer structure.

Trivia

• A country can declare the martial law at any time during the breakdown before anarchy, but is commonly on the Close to anarchy stage.
• A country's society can go back a stage. Example: From Widespread Disorder to General Disruption.
• natural disastors (at least on the mobile version) can cause a country to go from buisness as usual to general disruption.
  • Earthquakes are the only natural disaster that can send a country into widespread disorder (even if the country is at buisness as usual)