There are more details here: http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2016/05/19/new-beta-balance-patch-for-democracy-3/ But basically we are trying a new 'beta balance patch' for the game that introduces a whole bunch of changes to the simulation which we think makes the game better balanced, more accurate and more fun. Here are the changes: Version 1.26 ============ 1. Unemployment now contributes towards obesity 2. Increased impact of car usage on traffic congestion 3. Increased base likelihood of a teacher shortage. 4. Unemployment now reduces the chance of a teacher shortage. 5. University Grants now increase the chance of a teacher shortage. 6. Reduced impact of CCTV on Armed Robbery. 7. Added impact of low inequality on Armed Robbery. 8. Changed equation for GDP impact on Alcohol Consumption to be non-linear. 9. Added impact on doctors and teachers strikes from trade union membership 10. Adjusted impact of state school funding on teachers strikes. 11. Added effect of wages on Teachers & Doctors Strikes. 12. Added effects of science funding and the environment to contagious disease. 13. Arts subsidies, Bus subsidies and community policing now reduce unemployment. 14. Adjustments to triggers for various events. 15. Increased impact of refugee crisis event. 16. Effects of corporate exodus event worsened. 17. Increased impact of Unemployment on CrimeRate. 18. Impact of religion on antisocial behaviour now linked to membership, not frequency. 19. Unemployment now linked to antisocial behaviour 20. Trade union and Socialist group memberships now contribute towards general strike. You need to opt-in to the beta (right click the games name on steam no password...) right now to see the changes.
Please note this is currently windows english version only. Let us know what you think...

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Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.

Crime, Unemployment, National Debt, Terrorism, Climate Change...Have you got the answers to the problems that face western industrialized nations? Here is your chance to find out...

An entire virtual country

Democracy 3 simulates the motivations, loyalties and desires of everyone in the country. A custom-designed neural network is used to model individual voters, each which varying memberships of voting groups, political parties and pressure groups. Each voters income is modeled, along with their levels of complacency and cynicism. This is the most sophisticated political strategy game ever created.

Unique user interface

Despite being vastly detailed under-the-hood, Democracy 3 has a unique user interface that makes visualizing the connections between laws, policies, voters and situations easy. A simple iconic-based view of your countries issues allows you to 'drill-down' through all the relationships between policies and voters to quickly analyze the impacts of your decisions. Your trade policy may affect GDP, which will affect unemployment, which will effect poverty, and thus crime, leading to a change in tourism, which affects GDP...

Complex simulated voters

Each individual voter is a mixture of a subset of the 21 different voter groups represented within the game. They might be a young, wealthy, liberal socialist commuter, or a retired conservative religious capitalist, for example. Not only this, but the extent to which they identify each of those groups is both variable, and can be affected by your policies in the long term. Convert your country to religion, or atheism, to capitalism, or socialism by careful and nuanced adjustment of your policies and laws over time. A 'focus group' feature lets you look at individual voters and see exactly how they came to a decision to vote for you (or not!).

Read the reviews!

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/09/18/democracy-3-hands-on-losing-elections-with-land-mines-in-a-complex-politics-sim/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/10/07/greatest-britain-democracy-3-hands-on/
http://indiestatik.com/2013/10/09/kill-your-starry-eyed-romanticism-in-real-time-with-democracy-3/
http://www.jumptogamer.com/reviews/democracy-3-review/
http://www.kernelmag.com/reviews/game-review/6167/democracy-3/
http://fronttowardsgamer.com/2013/10/28/democracy-3-review-pc/
http://tiger-gaming.org/democracy-3/
http://www.bagofgames.com/2013/10/democracy-3-review/
http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/games/pc/Democracy-3-Review-393388.shtml
http://www.n4gtv.com/threads/democracy-3-review.592/
... and lots more...

Mod Support

Democracy 3 is very configurable and trivial to mod. It also has steam workshop support, for easy installation and browsing of modded content. Want to mod the game yourself? no problem, you need zero coding experience, just a spreadsheet program or a text editor, and we have a full comprehensive modding guide available here:
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy3/modding.html
Modders can easily edit the policies, add new ones, change the way objects affect others, create entirely new countries, situations and even re-write the entire economic and political model. Everything is editable and accessible.