You organize a legal opposition campaign in a state where elections matter and the ruling party heavily tilts the contest. Ari controls the public terminal. Four organizations have resources of their own. Publish two promises, make your requests, and hear what they actually choose.
The same political choices in both routes. For Class asks for the required reasoning; Just for Fun keeps writing optional. Both keep the numeric comparison.
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Original conceptual poster art. Lydora, its people and its institutions are fictional.
Meet a driver delegate, a student organizer, shift workers and a neighborhood steward. Predict one reply before all four requests are answered. Earlier promises can matter later.
02 / Change one rule
Isolate an advantage.
Switch only public-terminal access while keeping plans and organization decisions fixed. Trace the direct change in speaking opportunity and what the comparison leaves unresolved.
03 / Test your explanation
Carry the question.
Revisit a forecast, defend or narrow your claim, then investigate what another town’s institutions would need to let an independent club refuse a mayor’s order.
The learning work
Follow the decision, not just the instruction.
Distinguish public-venue control from an organization’s own implemented resource choice.
Explain how meaningful political competition can coexist with serious incumbent advantage.
Separate resources and speaking opportunity from citizens’ votes and electoral victory.
Use revealed evidence, make a controlled comparison and keep original reasoning alongside revision.
Transfer the explanation conditionally when institutions and enforcement are unknown.
The political ending is not the learning grade.
There is no simulated election winner. Recruiting everyone or choosing a particular party is not the correct answer. The report preserves your evidence and argument; an instructor assesses the reasoning.
Self-contained introductory comparative politics. The game can prime questions before Levitsky and Way’s “The New Competitive Authoritarianism.” It leaves the article’s wider explanation for the reading and discussion. Plan a nominal 55-minute route; pacing is an estimate.
Your campaign is open
Take your seat.
Choose For Class or Just for Fun on the opening screen. Your save stays in this browser on this website. Download a JSON backup before changing websites or devices. Export your report and submit it through your course system if assigned; downloading does not submit it.
The organizations’ practical control tonight is given, rather than explained. It does not demonstrate weak state capacity or an inability to repress opposition. Shared terminal access leaves the ruling party’s national advantages in place. Numerical relationships are authored teaching assumptions, and no election result is generated. Learning gains and completion time require classroom piloting.
