ORIGINAL: Chliperic
I will maybe adding adding a new Red economic option: Bagmen. Black market was flourishing in Sovpedia and Communists oscillated between repression and tolerance. Repression was in part due to the collapse menace bagmen were posing to the crumbling railway system, essential for Red military effort. So the option tolerate bagmen would lower railways capacity, NM and VP against a slight boost in loyalty, a few money and WSU. Not sure for this version.
This Bagmen you wrote about some kind of merchants corporate with military supply officials arranging their supply in train wagons to the fronts with high price? or with no capitalist activity that should be different form. But there should be some kind of black market indeed. Bad supply as rotten food with high price due to corruption in the next age engine rather than pancakes as a wishlist. Maybe lower supply transition to some fronts in practice.
I like the idea of railway lower capacity in the current age angine [:)]