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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 1 — Democracy 4 pulls players into the grand plans and microscopic details of government — and the “series of interesting, serious, and agonizing decisions” that even the most benevolent of politicians must make, says designer and lead programmer Cliff Harris. You don’t...

, which lets us match social and political ideals to real data and complex modelling.

While Harris identifies as a sort of liberal capitalist and fairly centrist in classical terms, he’s keen to keep his own biases out of the game, and playtesting has taken him all over the map. “Ultimately, it’s a good way of showing if a policy is unpopular. Then you can drill down and find that your tax may have been a good idea for what you wanted to do, but frankly this demographic group can’t afford it.”Assassination might seem like a pretty severe consequence, but the“It’s not designed to be this way, but it’s much easier to be killed in the games if you’re liberal, because you don’t have that apparatus of a police state to defend yourself,” he says.

 

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