![]() ![]() Seriously though, here’s the thing about this game – it’s not the most entertaining of games ever made, but it’s something that needs to be loaded on every student and politics nut’s laptop. I’m now preparing to run for election in the next (real) Australian election. The second time I played Democracy 3 I took a more… moderate… approach to social affairs, and this time around I dominated Australian politics like something that has never been seen before, winning over 90 per cent of the vote in every election. Despite all that I was doing for the people I was assassinated in the middle of my first term of being a prime minister. This annoyed the middle and upper classes, and hit the GDP in such a way that unemployment took a jump, but on the plus side the nation was in a surplus and the low income groups worshipped me like the second coming of Marx.īut then some other social policies around supporting the sciences and legalising prostitution saw my reputation with the conservative elements of society drop to such a level that a few ultra-conservative militant cults popped up. So I introduced taxes on pollution (suck on that, Tony Abbott), luxury goods and property. Then the world’s economy went into recession, and the budget deficit was starting to threaten the nation’s AAA-credit rating. It also ingratiated me with the left wing interest groups, but my support among the conservatives and patriots plummeted. This had the effect of boosting the country’s international reputation and reducing racial tension (in turn reducing rates of violence). Then I abolished certain laws around immigration, making it easier for people to enter the country and upping the nation’s commitment to provide foreign aid ( suck on that, Tony Abbott). This would lead to an increase in knowledge in the country, and ultimately the nation’s GDP would benefit, but it annoyed the religious folks. My first act was to mandate that schools taught evolution, rather than creationism. Everything is editable and accessible.When the people of Australia voted the head of the Socialist Alliance to the top political job, they had no idea what they were in for. Modders can easily edit the policies, add new ones, change the way objects affect others, create entirely new countries, situations and even re-write the entire economic and political model. ![]() Want to mod the game yourself? no problem, you need zero coding experience, just a spreadsheet program or a text editor, and we have a full comprehensive modding guide available here: It also has steam workshop support, for easy installation and browsing of modded content. Mod SupportDemocracy 3 is very configurable and trivial to mod. A `focus group` feature lets you look at individual voters and see exactly how they came to a decision to vote for you (or not!). Convert your country to religion, or atheism, to capitalism, or socialism by careful and nuanced adjustment of your policies and laws over time. Not only this, but the extent to which they identify each of those groups is both variable, and can be affected by your policies in the long term. They might be a young, wealthy, liberal socialist commuter, or a retired conservative religious capitalist, for example. Complex simulated votersEach individual voter is a mixture of a subset of the 21 different voter groups represented within the game. Your trade policy may affect GDP, which will affect unemployment, which will effect poverty, and thus crime, leading to a change in tourism, which affects GDP. ![]() A simple iconic-based view of your countries issues allows you to `drill-down` through all the relationships between policies and voters to quickly analyze the impacts of your decisions. Unique user interfaceDespite being vastly detailed under-the-hood, Democracy 3 has a unique user interface that makes visualizing the connections between laws, policies, voters and situations easy. This is the most sophisticated political strategy game ever created. Each voters income is modeled, along with their levels of complacency and cynicism. A custom-designed neural network is used to model individual voters, each which varying memberships of voting groups, political parties and pressure groups. An entire virtual countryDemocracy 3 simulates the motivations, loyalties and desires of everyone in the country. Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let`s face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.Ĭrime, Unemployment, National Debt, Terrorism, Climate Change.Have you got the answers to the problems that face western industrialized nations? Here is your chance to find out. ![]()
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