Democracy 4 came out of Early Access on January 13, 2022. The developer behind the game, Positech, describes Democracy 4 as being all about nation building. The game puts you in the role of president or prime minister as you transform your country “as you see fit while trying to retain enough popularity to get reelected.”
Democracy 4 is based on some pretty powerful technology. The game uses a “neural network designed to model the opinions, beliefs, thoughts, and biases of thousands of virtual citizens.” This fourth entry in the Democracy franchise builds on its forebears “while adding a host of new features such as media reports, coalition governments, emergency powers, three-party systems, and a more sophisticated simulation that handles inflation, corruption, and modern policy ideas such as quantitative easing, helicopter money, universal basic income, and policies to cover current political topics such as police body cameras, transgender rights, and tons more.”
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While strategy games tend to force you into accepting a particular perspective, Democracy 4 lets you put your own ideas about how the world works into practice — and to the test. “We all think our politicians are useless and that we could do a better job ourselves, but is that really true?” The game reveals that making the world a better place might just be a “tougher job than you ever imagined.”
“Would it really be a good idea to legalize all drugs, to give the police machine guns, to ban abortion, to invest heavily in green energy? Would universal basic income really work? Can you stay elected after cutting pensions in half to pay for your science
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