Politics

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).