Spin Doctor

Standalone HTML • Fictional satire
Survive Westminster theatre: juggle approval, budgets, party pressure, media, and your “side income”.

Dashboard

Public approval
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Low approval increases protests and leadership plots.
Party support
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Without it, you’re "invited" to step aside.
Treasury balance (bn)
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Deficits raise gilt panic and IMF vibes.
Personal wealth (m)
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The unspoken KPI. Keep it "above board" (wink).
Integrity
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Low integrity invites leaks, audits, and awkward hearings.
Media heat
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High heat amplifies scandals and reduces message control.

KPI trends

Trends show the last ~104 weeks. Budget and wealth are normalised for comparison.
Win condition is deliberately bleak: you "win" by leaving office richer than you arrived, without being forced out early. The simulation is fictional satire; any resemblance to real people is coincidental.

How to play

Each week, an issue lands on your desk. Pick one of three moves. Your job: keep public approval and party support high enough to survive, keep the budget from exploding, and manage media heat.

The game is satirical and assumes politics is a machine for optics, leverage, and incentives. If you choose grift-heavy options, you may get richer quickly, but integrity drops and media heat rises—raising the chance of scandal.

Endings: you can be forced out by leadership coup, election defeat, or scandal. Survive to the end of term to face an election; win it, and you continue to the next term.

Stats: Approval (0–100), Party (0–100), Budget (bn, can go negative), Wealth (m), Integrity (0–100), Heat (0–100).

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