I took a similar path to my previous ones, although being the leader of a different country comes with many changes to policy in place and the current state-of-affairs. By filling some of the initial gaps, the game’s breadth feels infinitely greater. Right away, the expanded options available to me made the game feel considerably deeper. I also succumbed and dropped the game’s difficulty by half. (I fired them for more loyal, but ultimately less experienced and effective members).įinally, after installing Extremism, I dove back in, this time as the Prime Minister of Canada. My cabinet members had become dissatisfied with my policy changes, and were subverting some of the changes I was making, delaying or ceasing changes I was making to various programs at many turns. Eventually I was unable to support all the programs I’d enacted, I drove the country’s credit rating into the ground. I tried to take it easier on businesses, balancing some of my added taxes and controls with small business grants and investment schemes to reward large corporations for investing in smaller business ventures.
I went a more moderate, but similar route on my next attempt. This led to severe antisocial behavior (too many cops on the streets), big business leaving the country (better taxes elsewhere, too many controls on production), and offended my conservative, rich, and elderly constituents fairly heavily. I instated a carbon emissions tax, reduced military spending, increased police presence and education spending, and increased taxes on luxury goods and corporate gains. I did everything I could to give the poor a chance, curb crime, and prioritize environmental responsibility. I was widely hated in my first foray as the President of the United States. Your initial instinct to just run wild with the policies you personally think will work to solve all the problems in this country will likely prove massively ineffective quickly, at least in the sense that they’ll do what you thought they might while offending a majority of your constituents.
My experience with the base game was a torrid one. The new Extremism expansion for Democracy 3 introduces many new policies for appeasing (offending) your citizens, or programs to save your taxpayers money (generate massive amounts of capital for yourself). I’ve said it before, but if you have any friends that love to make unfounded blanket statements about politics, have them play Democracy 3. The game does a fantastic job of displaying the careful balance it can take, and the difficult decisions involved in many parts of occupying a position of power.
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