Who Cares

"Increased popularity of reality TV in rich countries distracts people and stops them caring about disease outbreaks in poorer countries. Reduced funding significantly impacts the surveillance capacity of poor countries and limits their ability to identify and respond to national disease outbreaks. Who cares what happens to poor people?" — Plague Inc., Who Cares introduction paragraph.

Who Cares is a scenario. In this scenario, poor countries are reduced in their ability to detect and research a Cure for the player's disease, thus reducing difficulty.

Its opposite is Created Equal, which increases the ability of poor countries to do the above.

Notable Changes

One of the crucial changes in this scenario is about alterations in the importance of countries, which determines how concerned the world's population will be if it starts in a certain place. In this scenario, poor countries and to some extent middle class countries lose importance, which means that the world population will be less concerned if an outbreak starts in those regions, but instead, rich countries increase in importance, so in the event that the disease reaches them, more drastic measures will be taken.

Country Importance

Americas

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Country	Importance
	Normal	Scenario
USA	1.25	1.4
Canada	1.25	1.4
Greenland	0.75	0.4
Mexico	1	0.4
Brazil	1	0.4
Argentina	1	0.4
Caribbean	1	0.4
C. America	0.75	0.2
Colombia	0.75	0.2
Peru	0.75	0.2
Bolivia	0.75	0.2

Europe

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Country	Importance
	Normal	Scenario
Iceland	1.25	0.4
Norway	1.25	1.4
Sweden	1.25	1.4
Finland	1.25	1.4
Baltic States	1	0.4
Balkan States	1	0.4
Poland	1	0.4
Ukraine	1	0.4
Russia	1	0.4
Spain	1.25	1.4
France	1.25	1.4
UK	1.25	1.4
Germany	1.25	1.4
Italy	1.25	1.4
Central Europe	1.25	1.4

Asia

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Country	Importance
	Normal	Scenario
Japan	1.25	1.4
Korea	1	0.4
China	1	0.4
Indonesia	1	0.4
Philippines	1	0.2
S. E. Asia	0.75	0.2
India	1	0.4
Pakistan	0.75	0.2
Afghanistan	0.75	0.2
Central Asia	0.75	0.2
Kazakhstan	0.75	0.2
Iran	0.75	0.2
Iraq	0.75	0.2
Middle East	1	0.4
Saudi Arabia	1	0.4
Turkey	1	0.4

Africa

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Country	Importance
	Normal	Scenario
Madagascar	1.5	0.2
Angola	0.75	0.2
Botswana	0.75	0.2
Zimbabwe	0.75	0.2
South Africa	1	0.4
East Africa	0.75	0.2
Central Africa	0.75	0.2
West Africa	0.75	0.2
Morocco	1	0.2
Libya	0.75	0.4
Algeria	0.75	0.2
Egypt	1	0.2
Sudan	0.75	0.2

Oceania

Country	Importance
	Normal	Scenario
Australia	1.25	1.4
New Zealand	1.25	1.4
Papua New Guinea	1	0.4

Sources

• Normal Game: Information about the importance of each country is available in the Scenario Creator in the World Tab.
• Scenario: Who Cares Scenario Country Information - Game Files (See Text File: countries #56742.txt)

Government Actions

Government Actions	Normal Game		Scenario
	Local Priority	Global Priority	Local Priority	Global Priority
Research Funding 1	1	8	1	2
Research Funding 2	3	15	5	4
Research Funding 3	7	23	10	10
Research Funding 4	11	28	15	15
Research Funding 5	17	35	25	20
Research Funding 6	25	40	30	30
Research Funding 7	35	45	40	35
Research Funding 8	45	55	50	45
Research Funding 9	55	70	60	55
Resarch Funding 10	65	90	70	70
Pandemic Alert Issued	40	20	40	15
Airports Closed	10	20	13	20
Land Borders Closed	20	27	23	30
Ports Closed	20	30	28	35

Achievements

	Achievement Name:		Complete Who Cares
	Achievement Description:		Score 3 biohazards in the Who Cares scenario
	Value:		Difficulty:	Any

Tips

Due to the lowered awareness of disease in poor countries, starting in a poor country such as Bolivia is recommended with any disease.