Dissapearance? Why?

[Imperial East Japonia]

I have seen many old nations and big nations having their death reason with a high "dissapearance" rate, in some even being 60%. May I ask why?

[Drongonia]

There are a lot of issues that lead to governments being able to crack down on citizens. Think of "disappearance" as "secret government imprisonment, torture and/or execution"

[Jakker]

This seems more like a general issues/nation question, so feels more appropriate for gameplay.

[Vistulange]

It's basically "forced disappearances", ones you'd see in dictatorial regimes where dissidents are abducted, and are generally murdered with their fates left unknown to the public at large, as well as hidden from their families and close ones.

[Lyrical International Brigade]

As far as we know it's not because of wormholes.

[Merconitonitopia]

Disappearance is directly related to your corruption statistic. Interestingly, it has no relation to how authoritarian your government is, which would seem intuitive as it does refer to forced disappearances/extrajudicial executions. Consider Teufelvolk, a very liberal country which has high a disappearance rate because of high corruption.

Older nations tend to have high disapperance rates because it scales up indefinitely with corruption. If you select options which increase corruption more often than ones that decrease it, your corruption rate will continue to increase linearly forever. Hence, older corrupt countries end up having ridiculously high rates of disappearance (I'm on 92.6 percent myself).

[Victorious Decepticons]

Corruption, huh? Cool.

That'll make the stat work great with my IC canon - which says that Decepticons not only are corrupt - but that they don't admit it when someone dies (unless the one who knows of it is also the one who did the killing), due to death being seen as something that only happens to inferiors. Instead, the "proper" thing to do is make up an excuse for the person's permanent absence, such as "he's doing long-term exploration." Then, the body is quietly disposed of at a lightly-used foundry under heavy secrecy. The end result is that the dead one essentially just drops off of the face of Cybertron, never to be seen again. No one really knows what happened to him except his closest kin, who are the ones who arrange the funerary meltdown. This subterfuge itself could be seen as a mild type of corruption since it is deceptive, despite the not-really-bad motivations behind it.

Faking one's death to avoid troubles is also a known form of corruption IRL, and you can be sure that some Decepticons are using this method, too. The category "disappearance" leaves a beautiful level of ambiguity, within which all sorts of shady dealings can be hidden.

Notably, the Decepticon Government doesn't disappear anyone, despite being a steel-fisted dictatorship. It much prefers the fear/deterrent value of VERY public executions.

[Merconitonitopia]

How delightfully frightful, Vic!