Democracy 3

Democracy 3 is a political strategy game in which you govern a western industrialized nation. You set policies and laws to address issues such as crime, unemployment, national debt, terrorism and climate change, while trying to understand how your decisions affect the country and its voters.

The country and its voters

The game simulates the motivations, loyalties and desires of people across the country. Each voter belongs to varying combinations of 21 voter groups, political parties and pressure groups; the simulation also models each voter’s income, complacency and cynicism. Voters’ group identities can change over time in response to your policies, giving you the ability to shift the country towards religion or atheism, capitalism or socialism through changes to laws and policies.

A focus group feature lets you examine individual voters and see how they reached a decision about whether to vote for you.

Policies and their effects

An icon-based interface helps you explore the relationships between laws, policies, voters and situations. You can drill down into these connections to assess the effects of decisions: trade policy, for example, can affect GDP, which in turn affects unemployment, poverty, crime and tourism.

Modding

The game’s policies, relationships between objects, countries, situations, and economic and political model are editable. You can make changes with a spreadsheet program or text editor, without coding experience, including adding policies and creating entirely new countries and situations.