I am working on a game set in the cold war, and I was initially against the idea of having “influence” be some arbitrary number, which I thought would be too gamey. But after a bit of research I came across the percentages agreement where Churchill and Stalin agree on spheres of influences using percentages.

I have looked up a few sources on the agreement, and most just seem to regurgitate the same few information (considering how “crude” the agreement was, I am not surprised there’s not many sources on the) but the one part that I am wondering and that isn’t even mentioned anywhere is what did the percentages of influence actually mean in the real world? How does having 50% or 70% influence translate to the real world?

Thank you all in advance for your answers :)