Thanks again to ShadowAce for the ping!!
Posted on 12/04/2017 5:16:26 PM PST by dayglored
From the company website
'Government Simulator' is a simple economic and political simulation game. Take control of a whole country, like the USA, Germany, France, Russia, or Austria. Change laws, taxes and budgets based on real world statistics and data, and see what happens. For example:
The game simulates a whole country: Population, debt, GDP, economic growth, unemployment, crime, life expectancy, birth rate, mortality rate, state of the infrastructure and so on. The player can adjust budgets, taxes, laws, and see what the outcome is.
The game is running on real-world data. Meaning everything is based on real values: If you play as the USA, the debt, income, expenditures, crime rate, unemployment rate, etc. you start with is based on the actual, real values of the USA. For example if you lower a tax rate, you'll see what the simulation calculates as new values afterwards, in dollars, people, crimes per 100.000, interest rate, life expectancy in years, and similar.
There are goals to fulfill, like decreasing the crime rate or achieving a certain public health or education rating, but it is already interesting to try to tamper with the various options alone: What happens if you lower the minimum wage? What if you change the length of maternity leave? Or the retirement age? You can also do more serious changes like introducing censorship laws, compulsory military service, cash bans, or universal basic income.
There are military options, so you can start a war with any country in the world, and adjust its operation mode while the conflict is active. But be sure not to let it run out of control. Some countries for example also have a nuclear option, of course.
The game also includes a media and public reactions system, where you can read the most interesting headlines, and try to influence the media with PR stunts, interviews, and similar.
You can play as the USA, Germany, Russia, France, and Austria: These are the countries the simulation was implemented and tested to work nicely. But there are also additional countries and scenarios which can be downloaded. It is also possible to create new countries and scenarios on your own and share them with others.
Commentary from FReeper dayglored
This is NOT a shoot-em-up action game. It's a strategy game, a simulation of governments: economy, social structure, laws, warfare, media, politics, etc. So it has charts and graphs and tables; not so much blood and gore. It's a good initial effort. Some early reviewers are saying it needs more fleshing-out, that it's a little too simplistic.
For Windows 7 or Windows 10.
Thanks again to ShadowAce for the ping!!
[ This is NOT a shoot-em-up action game. ]
They usually never are; at the beginning....
[ Turn Germany into a third world country ]
I think that is called “Chancellor Angela Merkel”.
Cool!
When he was elected mayor, I gave my friend a copy of SimCity and told him to practice before he changed anything.
We laughed and thought it would be good for candidates to reveal their scores during the campaign. ;)
Cool. Very new.
Well, except we had ‘Risk’ back in the day.
Sort of sounds identical, in a high-tech way.
Can games last all day long?
:)
Worth a look although I think the Obama cabinet already used something like this since all those Ivys with no real-world experience had to base their cocksure superiorist attitudes on something. It was clear Obama was an economic illiterate.
Computers don't do the perfect thing. They do the thing they were told to do perfectly.
I’ll put six armies on Bananistan...
Thanks
Implementing capital punishment and putting a HOV lane for certain offenses is easy.
Well, as you say, it depends on the algorithms programmed into the simulation.
But suppose, as I assume, they base their algorithms on real historical data, e.g. In the past:
That's a great idea! :-)
Depends. Can you hold off starting a worldwide nuclear holocaust until at least suppertime?
You're quite welcome, but really, ShadowAce gets the credit for finding this. I just posted the thread and pinged my Windows list. I might never have seen the article about it, not being a gamer myself.
Although, my daughter is, and I'll have to ask her what she thinks of it.
They nailed the wireframe graphics as seen in the movie WarGames (1983).
Thanks, I think so too.
It’s how pilots learn to fly without killing anyone.
I think simulation is vastly underrated and could be applied to many life situations.
ok i’ve just had my brains removed- now i can play the game
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