Run a nation on the real map, in real time, while this week’s news reshapes the world. Talk to your cabinet and it comes back with a plan; rival nations make their own. Lead with your friends, or take them on.
Other strategy games run on scripts you learn to beat. Here frontier AI thinks on both sides of the table, so no two terms play out alike.
In your cabinet
Your cabinet reads the situation, debates it among themselves, and brings you strategy and recommendations. Tell them what you want in plain words and they turn it into orders. Friends can take any seat.
Across the border
Every couple of minutes, each nation no player holds weighs its claims, treaty offers, trade lanes and sanctions against yours and picks its move in seconds. When it isn’t sure, its doctrine decides.
Keeping it fair
Nothing about how a term ends is written in advance. The rules only keep it fair: every move is checked and every result is worked out by the game, so no AI can invent an army.
Chapter IThe oathMinute 1
You take office over a nation on the real map: 249 regions with real people, real output and real borders. Name it, choose how it’s governed, set its taxes, raise its flag. Then the clock starts, and the world doesn’t pause for you.
Chapter IIThe cabinetMinute 3
Every post in your government is held by a friend or an AI, and you can mix them. Talk to your cabinet in plain words. They debate it among themselves and come back to you with strategy and recommendations. You decide.
Intelligence Chief
Dir. Cassandra Noir
“I don’t tell you what they’re saying. I tell you what they’re about to do.”
What the post gives you 3 weeks’ warning before an AI rival goes to war or sanctions you, and intelligence 39% sharper.
Chapter IIIThe crisisMinute 10
An outbreak in the Congo Basin rides the trade and travel routes onto four continents. Close the borders and the economy bleeds. Keep them open and the hospitals do. Every region carries its own infection, and so does every decision.
Kinshasa
WHO declares a pandemic as the Kinshasa fever spreads
Cases four continents
Lagos
Lockdowns empty the world’s megacities
Business support −6Approval −2Stability −1
Mumbai
A second, deadlier wave overwhelms hospitals
Healthcare −5Approval −3Stability −2
Pune
Vaccine nationalism: producers halt exports
Approval −1Healthcare −2
Geneva
Global vaccine compact ends the shortage
Healthcare +5Business support +4
Every match opens on a crisis drawn from a real pressure point, and it escalates through your term.
Strait of Hormuz
The Strait Closes
Mines in the shipping lanes; energy prices spike worldwide.
Global bond markets
Contagion
Bond spreads blow out and bank runs spread between capitals.
Bab-el-Mandeb
Red Sea Blockade
Container lines divert around Africa, two weeks longer a voyage.
Eastern Interconnection
Dark Grid
Substations trip in sequence and restarts fail for days.
Taiwan Strait
Silicon Quarantine
Ships queue offshore and chip deliveries stop overnight.
Northern Sea Route
Polar Gold Rush
Survey ships under escort stake claims across the Arctic.
Sahel belt
The Dry Years
Harvests fail and millions of herders move south.
Bayan Obo
The Mineral Squeeze
Export licences for magnets and metals are suspended.
Wall Street
Machine Panic
Trading halts, and nobody can say which model started it.
Central Mediterranean
Exodus
Coast guards are overwhelmed and ports turn ships away.
Panama Canal
Low Water
Ships wait three weeks for a slot or go round Cape Horn.
Korean DMZ
Edge of the Peninsula
Sirens sound and regional forces go to high alert.
Chapter IVThe decisionMinute 40
Healthcare has fallen six points. Your cabinet has weighed it and brings you two plans, each with its cost and what it moves. Sign one, scale it, or ask for something else. Whoever’s plan you pass over remembers.
Press Secretary
Sec. Olivia Grant
“People are waiting in corridors today. $40.0 B opens beds this month.”
AEmergency beds
Treasury −$40.0 BHealthcare +3.4Approval +0.3
Muller loses 10 morale and 3 loyalty.
Science Adviser
Dr. Lena Muller
“Emergency money buys this winter; five budget points buy every winter.”
BFund it properly
Health budget 15% → 20%Healthcare +3.2Education −1.7Infrastructure −1.7
Grant loses 10 morale and 3 loyalty.
Or tell them what you want in your own words. They come back with the orders to get there, and what each will cost, before you sign.
Chapter VThe world movesHour 1
Up to 24 nations share a world. Every seat a person isn’t holding is an AI government with its own doctrine, its own alliances and its own plans for you. And every hour, the real world’s news lands in yours.
Accord
Two trading nations sign a port access accord
Soft power +1.5Tension −0.5
A real agreement, reported by 214 sources this week
Protest
Fuel price protests fill a neighbour’s capital
Approval −1.5Stability −1
Real demonstrations, reported by 96 sources
Force posture
A hawkish neighbour moves armour to the border
Military support +1Tension +1
A real deployment, reported by 388 sources
Only stories carried by three or more independent sources make it in, with fictional nations in place of real ones. Mass-casualty events are left out.
Chapter VIBring your peopleAny minute
Bring your friends into your government. Each takes a real post: your General, your Finance Minister, your spymaster, the Governor of a region. They run their desk; you run the country. Or put them on the other side of the map and find out who your friends really are.
Together
Against
Every nation in a world can be a person. Trade with your friends, sign pacts with them, sanction them, out-vote them at the Security Council, or declare war. Alliances hold until they don’t.
Friends lists, @handles and direct messages are built in, so the plotting can start before the match does.
Chapter VIIThe termHour 3
A standard match is two terms, a little under three hours of play, in three acts of about an hour each. Elections fall on each nation’s own calendar, so someone is always campaigning. Leave whenever you like: the world keeps going, and briefs you on what happened when you’re back.
Act I
The first hour
The opening crisis
Build your cabinet, find your allies, survive the first shock.
Act II
The second hour
Worse
The nations vote on the next crisis, and it is worse than the first.
Act III
The final hour
The endgame
Emergency powers, a hotter clock, and the final standings.
SoloAgainst the machinesFill a world with AI governments. Each has a doctrine (expansionist, mercantile, hawk, isolationist, opportunist) and plays to it.Play this
Main worldThe open worldOne persistent world shared by players and AI. Make pacts, break them, and come back to a briefing on what happened while you were gone.Play this
PrivateYour world, your rulesStart a world, set its length, speed and seats, decide whether it’s ranked, and send friends an invite link.Play thisA modern desktop browser. There is nothing to install. The map uses WebGL, so a laptop from the last few years is plenty.
Both. Worlds hold up to 24 nations, and any seat a person isn’t holding is played by an AI government. Fill a world with AI for a solo campaign, or open it to friends.
Yes. The leader opens posts in their government, and friends take them: a cabinet role like General or Finance Minister, or a region’s governorship. Each post proposes its own orders, or carries them out if the leader delegates. War, peace, the bomb, elections and the budget stay with the leader. The first post is free; each further one costs 100 Capital.
The map, regions, trade lanes and chokepoints are real. The nations on top of them are fictional, with their own names, flags, currencies and governments.
Two kinds of AI play. A frontier language model runs your cabinet: it briefs you, argues, turns your plain-English orders into moves and reviews your laws. A decision model plays the nations no person holds, choosing their claims, treaties, trade lanes and sanctions each month. The game’s rules check every option first and work out every result, so no AI can invent an army or rewrite the outcome.
A little under three hours of play for a standard match, in three acts of about an hour each. Your own worlds can run shorter, longer, faster or slower, and you can leave and come back whenever you like.
No. The live feed leaves out mass-casualty events, needs several independent sources, and retells what it does use with the world’s fictional nations.
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