Democracy 3

It is hard to flat-out recommend or not recommend this game. On the one hand, it provides an enjoyable and entertaining gaming experience. On the other hand, it is a bad simulator and can feel off-putting if played seriously. [b]State[/b] The game is called "Democracy" and it claims to be about politics, so you may assume that you are playing as an elected official, a person playing part in how the state runs. This is misleading. The game should be called "Governance" because players don't play someone involved with the state, or even as a head of the state, but rather as the state itself. A state in this game has almost no limit to its authority. There is no separation of judiciary, legislation or executive roles. There is no constitution, no parliament, no checks and balances. A "president" is simultaneously passing laws, ruling on policies, running the governing party, controlling taxes and social engineering entire country. There is no internal opposition at all. Whatever a player decides to do, will be executed without need for talks or compromise. All it takes here is accumulating "political capital" that comes for free, with enough capital pretty much any policy in the game can be passed. Someone decides to go with 90% income tax? Easily implemented. Reducing U.S. military budget by 80%? Easy. Spend all money on fighting climate change? Whole state will back this decision. Fully nationalizing or privatizing healthcare? Very easy. Mods make it really funny because the same system allows to introduce something like judges from Judge Dredd executing criminals in the streets with no one saying a word. If you favor non-extremist economic policies, you may be disappointed in this game. By its design Democracy 3 heavily favors big government and encourages grotesque version of keynsianism. In real world the theories are debatable and ambiguous, but in the game it is objectively more efficient to just use excessive taxation and compensate with extremely costly spending programs, no matter if those are pro-capitalist or socialist. Small government with little taxes will lead nowhere. Monarchs and dictators of the most authoritarian countries spent their night dreaming of having it this easy. Officials in this game are perfectly diligent, honest and obedient, so there is no corruption, no inefficiency or backstabbing, not even a military coup. All there is to worry about is the country's population unhappy with socio-economic experiments. [b]People[/b] Speaking of the country and the population, both can be managed rather easily after a player learns how the game works. It is pretty simple: policies (white clouds) influence modifiers (blue clouds) and both influence perception of one or several population groups. For example, recycling (policy) improves environment (modifier) and both positively influence environmentalists. Petrol tax (policy) discourages car usage (modifier) and that improves environment (another modifier), again making environmentalists happy in a less direct way. Some policies require spending, while others bring more funds. Understanding the connections and costs in full may take some time, but after a player does, it is not much of a challenge. If mismanaged, there are two threats to the enlightened rule of the "president": assassinations and losing an election, the only two ways an unhappy population can fight back. Assassination happens after provoking some population group too much, but can easily be prevented by improving security. An election may be lost because of low popularity, but it can be prevented by costly populist stunts like abolishing taxes before the voting. Just don't forget to immediately return those back after election is won. [b]Balance[/b] Balancing may be off in a lot of places. Some policies are very low cost but have strong positive effects while others are the opposite. [b]Bias[/b] Straight-up bias may also play a role. There are many questionable connections between proposed causes and effects, not to mention borderline insulting assumptions about what certain population groups support. [b]Conclusion[/b] This game is definitely not for everyone. Turning politics and governance into a nonsense may be both fun and unfun. For some it may be fun to bring an obscure political vision and successfully transforming a country in accordance with that vision. For some it may feel lacking and unfulfilling.

每玩一次《民主制度3》，都使我为党和国家伟大的成就和社会主义制度的优越性感到幸福和自豪。 EVERYTIME when I play this poor game,I sense the feeling of pride and fortune towards the great contribution of our Party and our Nation in the process of developing and chasing and the advantages of our political&government system of socialism.

It's a one sided game. Unless your a socialist you can't do well. Ban guns, implement every social policy you can, give away money to the citizens, and you win. Countries don't matter. There is no nuance to anything. This game is shallow.

Every few months I find this on my uninstalled list, wonder why I stopped playing a game I really like, re-install it and... quickly finds out. This game is a FANTASTIC IDEA implemented very very badly. It's overly simplifying things (all religions, for instance, are "religious" and hold exactly the same ideas. namely, of course, right wind extreemist christians.) The economical model is marxist to the full and very very american post-capitalist in views. The behavioral model does not make sense (legalizing drug leads, of course, to *unpreventable* drug addiction. Which contradicts every large scale surveys of western economies). But worst of all is the "Global Economy". Once you pass a certain threshold of success, with all 6 major stats in the green, inevitably the Global Economy goes into huge recession. And just stays there! Also, since you somehow avoided most other catastrophes, for some reason, there's a global meltdown twice a year. This game tries SO HARD to make it deliberately difficult, in ways that make no sense. So no, I would not recommend it.

Get Democracy 4 instead. It basically includes all the DLC, it's better and improved, and good looking too!

it's impossible to govern using any ideology in this game. no matter what I do, I'm asssasinated by capitalists, socialists, religious freaks, you name it. dude who made this game has an outlandishly exaggerated idea of how frequently democratically elected leaders are assassinated for their views. which is important, considering that this simulator aims for realism.

这游戏有毒…… 开局坚持怒搞基建的基本国策， 高烟酒燃油税开源，低医疗教育养老节流， 穷则以经济建设为中心，达则必须坚持核心价值观。 [spoiler]身份证，摄像头，互联网审查都是标配，[/spoiler] 宗教？不存在的。 不用查攻略，光靠生活阅历就能玩得溜的游戏，真心给赞