Backgrounds describe what the presidente did before entering before coming to power. All backgrounds give different advantages, though some of them come with downsides as well.
Backgrounds
Biblical Scholar
After translating the Bible into 40 different languages, including Urdu and Swahili, you accidentally discovered a secret code in the Holy Book, which gives answers to all possible questions. How blessed you are!
- +10 Respect with the Religious
- +5 Respect with the Intellectuals
Booze Baron
You were part of Al Capone's gang before your boss got busted for tax evasion. Following the big man's example, you established yourself as a bootlegger during the dry years. Now, having made Tropico your new base of operations, you crave a second Prohibition that would make you Capo di tutti capi.
- +100% Rum and Spiced Rum prices
- -5 Respect with the Religious
Born In The Purple
The legend goes that when you were born, someone accidentally pinched you with a needle and blue blood poured out of those sweet, little aristocratic veins of yours. Your nanny tells a different version of the story altogether. Apparently, the first thing you did when coming out of mommy's womb was to royally wet yourself. The diapers they put you in released certain chemicals and everything got colored with a purplish tinge. So you were literally born in the purple.
- +25 Respect with the Loyalists
- Palace starts with all three upgrades automatically.
Chief of Police
- +10 Respect with the Militarists
- -10% Liberty
- -40% Crime
Developer
- +20 Respect with the Capitalists
- -10 Respect with the Environmentalists
- +50% Pollution
- -20% Building Cost
Farmer
- +10 Respect with the Communists
- +50% Farmer Production
- -10 Respect with the Intellectuals
Fortunate Son
- +10 Respect with all non-Intellectuals
- -10 Respect with the Intellectuals
Generalissimo
- +20 Respect with the Militarists
- +20 Respect with the Nationalists
- -20% Liberty
- +15% Soldier experience
Harvard U.
- +10 Respect with the Capitalists
- +30 US Relations
- 20% faster education and skill training
- -15 USSR Relations
Leftist Author
- +10 Respect with the Communists
- +15 Respect with the Intellectuals
- +20% faster education and skill training
Man Of The People
- +20 Respect with the Communists
- -5 Respect with the Religious
Miner
- +10 Respect with the Communists
- +10 Respect with the Capitalists
- +50% Miner Production
- -20 Respect with the Environmentalists
Moscow U.
- +10 Respect with the Communists
- +30 USSR Relations
- +10% faster education and skill training
- -15 US Relations
Naturalist
- +15 Respect with the Intellectuals
- +25 Respect with the Environmentalists
- -30% Pollution
- +10% Building Cost
Oil Tycoon
- +50% Oil and Oil Products prices
- +10 Respect with the Capitalists
- -20 Respect with the Environmentalists
Pop Singer
- +5 Respect with all factions
- +10 US Relations
- +10% Tourism Rating
- +30 Night Club Service Quality
Professor
- +20 Respect with the Intellectuals
- +50% faster education and skill training
Secret Agent
- +100% Secret Agent experience
- Secret agents are more effective
- +10% Respect from all women
Self-Made Man
- +10 Respect with the Capitalists
- +10 US Relations
- +15% Factory Worker Production
Silver Spoon
- +25 Respect with the Capitalists
- +10% Tourism Rating
- +10% Factory Worker Production
- +$2,000 in the treasury at the start of the game
- -10 Respect with the Communists
Travel Agent
- +20% Tourism Rating
- +10 Attractions and Entertainment Service Quality
War Hero
- +5 Respect with all factions
- +20 Respect with the Nationalists
- The presidente performs better in combat