👑 Shannon — La Presidenta
Search for shannon on any guide page. A pinned brand-voice result appears at the top of the search results, and you unlock the Viva for Shannon badge (epic tier).
Shannon is the project's namer and dedicatee. Every page header carries the "Made for Shannon with love from Stefan" dedication. Her card is featured on credits.html.
🐈⬛ Ike Eisenhower
Search for ike on any guide page. You unlock the Ike's Approval badge (epic tier).
Ike is the project's mascot — a black cat referenced as "Special Advisor for Naps and Foreign Policy". He also appears as an idle nap animation in the Citizen Plaza on every game page (~30% of frames; he naps for a while, then walks slowly, then naps again).
🪪 Penultimo
Search for penultimo on any guide page. A floating popup appears with a random Penultimo greeting + Tropico-flavor advice, and you unlock the Penultimo's Favor badge (epic tier).
Penultimo is Tropico's iconic radio DJ + sycophantic advisor (T3-T6). His T5 dynasty integration and T6 hidden-gems references are documented throughout the guides.
🎮 Konami Code
Press ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A anywhere on any guide page (must NOT be focused inside an input).
A 1.2s golden flash sweeps the screen + you unlock the Konami Caudillo badge — the first legendary-tier badge in the catalog. Respects prefers-reduced-motion: the badge still unlocks but the flash is suppressed.
📨 Tropicotelegram Fortunes
Visit tropicotelegram.html for daily Tropico wisdom: 40 hand-crafted Penultimo/Almanac/El-Presidente-advisor fortunes covering banana-republic politics, faction-balancing tips, edict humor, Llama Flu lore, and election rigging gags.
Click "📨 Another telegram" to roll a new fortune. Each visit is a small dose of Tropico-flavor.
🎲 Random Section
Visit random.html to get redirected to a random section across all 6 games. Great for serendipitous discovery — you might land on T2's Captive mechanics, T6's heist-able world wonders, or T1's hidden-gems trivia.
🌴 Plaza Citizens + Speech Bubbles
Below the game-nav on each game page, a CSS-only "Citizen Plaza" lane shows walking emoji citizens specific to that game (pirates 🏴☠️ for T2, royals 👑 for T5, llamas 🦙 + spies 🕵️ for T6, etc). When someone posts in chat, a speech bubble floats above the lane for ~9 seconds.
Hidden in the rotation: Ike (🐈⬛) naps in the lane periodically across all 6 games.
🏛️ La Presidenta's Cabinet
Visit cabinet.html — the Hall of Fame. 21 badges total spanning common (votes/views), rare (cross-game polyglot), epic (Approved Contributor, Editor of the Republic, Master Builder, etc.), and legendary (Konami Caudillo).
Global leaderboard shows the top 10 caudillos by badge count (emails masked for privacy).
📚 Tropicodex — Hidden Cross-Reference
Visit tropicodex.html — alphabetical glossary of 3,127 named terms across all 6 games. Click any term to deep-link to its source section. Combined with the heading-anchor system + auto-open-details navigation, you land at the exact subheading.
⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts
Press / anywhere to focus the search input. Press ? to open the search help dialog (with all the query operators: title:, -token, game:t4). Press Esc to close any modal.
🚢 Recently-Shipped Strip + Footer Info
Above the main content on each game page, the recently-shipped strip shows the last 3 phases pulled from the RSS feed. Below the footer, the build info strip shows file count + KB size + last shipped phase — handy for monitoring + curiosity.
📰 Feeds + OpenSearch
The site exposes RSS (feed.rss) and Atom (feed.atom) feeds of the changelog, plus an OpenSearch description (opensearch.xml) so desktop browsers can right-click → Add TropicoHead as a search engine.