r/TheoTown

Give me some tips on playing theotown. I'm a pretty experienced player, but I'm obviously not omniscient. It will be very interesting for me to discuss the transport system, economy and demand in the city.

How do you feel about the plug-ins in the game, which many use to increase the population or income, as well as manual assembly in the zones?

I want to calculate the GDP of my city in TheoTown.

Let's start:

My city has developed infrastructure, accessible higher and general education, is safe, and also has healthcare.

This fits the description of the standard of living in a country with a high HDI score.

There are also relatively low taxes (7–7.5%), but taking into account the mechanics of the game, I would consider them to be quite low but progressive with residents' incomes.

I will use approximately 0.870–0.900 HDI as a reference point. Since literal GDP per capita data at nominal values would not be the best for comparison, but still:

Poor population — GDP per capita of countries with an HDI of 0.880 multiplied by 70%.

Middle-class residents — 90%.

Wealthy residents form the 110% layer.

The average GDP in such countries, as I found, is approximately 37.5 thousand US dollars. With these calculations, the GDP of my city in US dollars at the 2026 exchange rate is approximately $1.391 billion.

Sectors: agriculture (for the calculation, I used the share of residents in the industrial sector) — 1%. Services — 70% (all residential + commercial). Industry — 28–30% (TT and TTT industrial-class residents).

GDP in theons — 3 million.

Look: on average, the annual budget of such countries is 37% of GDP. Therefore, my monthly net profits of 78k amount to 944 thousand per year. That is roughly one third of GDP, or 3 million, which is the total GDP, in other words.