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Plenty of games, especially strategy and simulator games, have game mechanics related to politics or economics. From Recettear’s “Capitalism Ho!” to Hearts of Iron 4’s focus trees, political descriptions can be added to flavor game mechanics, and because different game devs have endless variation in personal worldviews, these additions can be absurdly bad at times. Even if the mechanic itself is good, it can have dunk-worthy labelling. Post the worst that you can think of, even if they come from an otherwise great game.

I’ll start: In Civilization VI, different government types you choose have different slots for policy cards, which let you select political policy bonuses for your civilization. In the modern age, two of the government types you can choose are “Democracy” and “Communism”. Already this is liberal drivel conflating Communism with non-democracy and “authoritarianism”. But the policy slots for these governments are even dumber, as Democracy gets more “diplomatic” and “economic” policies, and Communism gets more “millitary” policies. Famously, America and the west (clearly what Democracy is inspired by) never destabilized the world with arms manufactoring and invasions, I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Also, the best way to win the game is to amass a lot of property and be a landlord who charges high rent. People will start hating you (shocked-pikachu), but you can just lower the rent to the minimum level and they'll like you again big-cool

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

If my landlord dropped my rent to pennies because they had enough money I'd be hard pressed to hate them personally rather than as representatives of the class

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fable 3 taught me that there's no point collecting rent from the poor, because they have no money, so you should set their rent to zero so everyone loves you while making the rich pay double to give you a fat treasury. It also taught me that every public works project can be funded easily if the state just takes ownership of all land and housing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Monarcho-communism