Thread by @xuenay

Says something about me that I'm going through a list of *legal policies* all nerding out, like "okay, hmm, that's good, that's good, that's not so great, okay cool, can I change that one maybe we'll see, hmm..."

(game: Suzerain, rockpapershotgun.com/2020/12/31/the… )

I promised to uphold national values instead of enacting democratic reforms but a lot of these policies sound kinda democratic to me, where's my real ultimate supreme power, I can even be impeached :| oh well, this will do (until I can change it maybe)

on the other hand the president has no term limits so that's good

btw I didn't take a screenshot but I'm not used to a game having a faux history this familiar, before I became president the country had a civil war in 1928 and I could choose to either join the nationalists or the socialists

hmm that reminds me of something

Okay how's our economy doing

Terrible apparently

Our military was doing okay, but our social security is also doing terribly.

Gotta fix that. I may want to be a dictator in all but name, but that's just so that I can help our people.

Made a deal with a guy who controls most of the media in this country. We agree not to interfere in his company's business, and he also gets one unspecified favor in the future, and in return they suppress bad stories about me.

Kind of unnerving not to know what he'll ask of me in the future, but can't get anything done if I'm not willing to form any alliances. I already turned down one outright bribe from another businessman so I have *some* moral high ground here.

I love it how this game has multiple different newspapers that each cover things with their own slant and bias.