The Order Was Given · Version 1.3

Your campaign guide

You are Sasha, organizer of Youth, a legal opposition transport campaign in authoritarian Lydora. The ruling party controls important state institutions and heavily favors its own campaign. Opposition still competes for genuine support. Ari controls the public bus terminal; four organizations decide how to use their own resources tonight.

Choose your route

For Class requires your name, eight short responses, evidence choices and the fictional citizen choice. Aim for about 300 words in total; the game shows each minimum. Just for Fun makes writing optional. Both routes keep the same political choices and require two numeric reach predictions. You can switch routes inside the game without restarting. Earlier exploration and later additions remain disclosed.

Work through the campaign

1. Arrive. Read the political setting and terminal notice. State your first intention and what might change your approach.
2. Negotiate three rounds. Publish exactly two policy promises. Review one request for each of the four people. You may keep a preselected request. Inspecting people and asking questions are free. Predict one reply, choose evidence and explain your reason. Sealing sends all four requests. Read the replies before planning again. Earlier arrangements are provisional; round 3 fixes tonight’s resources.
3. Explain the forums. Choose one revealed terminal decision and one organization’s revealed reply. Compare who controlled each choice and how it affected speaking opportunity. For the citizen choice, step out of Sasha’s role and imagine one commuter who heard both cases. Government, Youth and abstention are all available.
4. Change one access rule. Predict both new reach totals before revealing. Only terminal access switches. Plans and the four final organization decisions remain fixed. This is a controlled comparison, not another negotiation.
5. Reconsider. Use the comparison and an earlier forecast to defend, narrow or change your explanation. State what you still cannot know about votes. Winning does not by itself settle fairness.
6. Transfer. In the new town, identify one genuinely unknown fact. Explain what you predict if the answer goes one way and if it goes another. The town’s institutions and regime are unspecified.
7. Keep and submit your work. Review your report, complete anything missing for Class, then export. Submit through your instructor’s course system. Downloading does not submit anything.

Useful terms

Forum: public campaign meeting. Terminal: central bus station. Appeal: your request. Allocation: a resource decision. Incumbent: the party or leader already in office. Reach unit: an artificial resource contribution, not a person or vote.

Each campaign starts with one baseline unit. The terminal has two units; each organization has two. G gives both to Government; Y gives both to Youth; S gives one to each; W leaves both unused. Used plus unused totals 12. Speaking time is 20 seconds + 5 seconds per reach unit. A shared terminal does not remove national media or institutional advantages.

Save and return

Check Saved on this device. Use Save & files → Download backup before changing websites, browsers or devices, then Restore backup to resume. Each website keeps its own browser save. A readable report is not a restorable backup. If saving pauses, follow the recovery message before replacing anything.

Plan about 50–60 minutes, with more time if you write or discuss at length. This is an estimate, not a countdown. Use Setting, Evidence and Help & terms whenever you need them.