Once the panic level of a Council Nation reaches 5 bars, the player will be warned that their panic is at a critical level. Once the report screen is dismissed, the clock is unpaused. Upon receiving this report, the in-game clock is paused while the transmission is decoded and the player reads the results. The Council Report is transmitted to XCOM at 0000 hours (12:00AM) on the first day of each month. This scale can never go below 1 bar or go beyond 5 bars. Each council member nation has a 5 bar panic level scale which increases if alien activity occurs in that country or parent continent that the player ignored or failed to contain.
At the end of each month, The Council issues a report that details the XCOM Project's successes, failures and the global panic levels.
