Where to go next?

From here, you can choose a number of different paths, set up an oil industry, steel industry or agriculture. Bear in mind, some industries use special connecting roads instead of conveyor belts to transfer goods from one factory to the next, and some you may need to default back to using trucks to transport the goods. Some buildings require you to purchase machines (such as the excavator for the gravel quarry, or tractors, harvesters and trucks for the farms).You can also build rail to transport workers and goods. This is a bigger undertaking and requires you to set up a train depot, fuelling station and train stations to pick up and drop off workers and resources, but transports these in large numbers. Even if you plan to eventually become self-sufficient, you will most likely need to export goods for an income as the starting money won't last forever. This should be a priority early on. Steel and oil (and oil products like fuel and bitumen) are good exports and should be an early focus. You can export these by setting a truck or train to pick up resources and drop them off at a border connection. If you export to a Soviet border connection you get Roubles, and at a NATO connection you receive Dollars for your exports.Another thing to consider when you have a healthy flow of income is to set up your own construction industry. Early on, you can build a construction office and purchase some Stalin bulldozers. You can now level land for free, as long as it is within distance of the bulldozers, and you ensure that the option to purchase with Roubles/Dollars is turned off in the construction window when levelling.You'll then need to set up industries for gravel, asphalt, concrete, prefab panels and other building materials, buy more machines such as the cement mixer and roller at the construction office and set where they get their resources from to be able to assign them to construction projects (where you click to build something but turn off purchase with Roubles/Dollars in the construction window). Constructing it yourself means that you won't spend any money to build buildings, roads and railways and you have the pride of it being entirely constructed by your own people!Feel free to use existing towns as sources of population for your industries to save money building houses and importing workers, although you'll still need to provide them with power and facilities and transport them to their workplace.