

One can leave leave them with only enough money to eat so that they have enough strength to keep working and breed. The tax rates for lower class can however be kept high to finance the big investments needed in education and bureacracy.

One can do so with National Foci and giving tax cuts to middle and upper class. It is best to encourage capitalists, clergy, clerks and Bureaucrats. Initially it is probably best to use Russia's two National Focuses on clergymen in the two largest states of Kiev and Moscow as this will help to increase literacy and the rate at which technologies can be researched. Russia's literacy is extremely poor and if this issue is not fixed, it will result in Russia falling behind technologically. Keeping both education and administration spending at the maximum will help with literacy and administrative inefficiency issues. Russia has some fiscal issues considering the large investments needed and the size of the country.

The other choices include Westerniser ( Laissez Faire, Free trade) and Panslavic (Protectionist, State Capitalism). Russia starts off with Slavophile (Protectionism, Interventionism) as the government party.
