The Power Circuit
The same crisis. Three rulebooks. Form governments and build coalitions under parliamentary, presidential and semi-presidential rules, then discover why the same vote can keep one government in office and remove another.
Possible States / Interactive politics
Make a choice.
Follow the consequence.
Governments to build. Rules to test. Evidence that complicates a very good story.
Seventeen political simulations and an everyday evidence lab. Free to play for class or curiosity. Choose For Class for the complete activity, or explore at your own pace in For Fun.
The Square
Everyone wants change. You are one of twenty citizens deciding whether to show up. Test what communication, organization and incentives change, and what shared interests cannot accomplish by themselves.
The Order Was Given
A powerful official gives an order. Four organizations still have decisions to make. Build an opposition transport campaign, navigate unequal access and discover whose cooperation turns a promise into something people can use.
Manytide
The borders look tidy. One household’s life does not. Follow records, schools and public services across a divided federation, arrange authority and resources, and find who your solution still leaves between the lines.
After the Count
The ballots are counted. The argument has only begun. Investigate elections in the UK, Israel, Liberia and New Zealand, test how rules translate votes into power, and defend the costs of the system you would choose.
The Overloaded State
The law passed. The promise stalled. Follow it into a jammed bureaucracy, find the bottleneck and decide what a reform would have to change before people feel a difference.
The Hearing
An election can be competitive and profoundly unequal. Investigate case files from Russia, Malaysia, Malawi and Serbia, build a source-based explanation and defend it at a hearing. A complication and a rival account are waiting.
The Shared Country
One river. Three regions. A flood is coming. Decide who can act, who must agree and who pays, then watch your division of power shape conflicts over clinics, licenses and the country you share.
Greenovia: The Belonging Test
You wrote the country’s promise. Now a family you did not plan for wants to use it. Put your charter through citizenship, language, school, religion and voting disputes, and decide which principles survive their consequences.
A Door That Says Open
The right exists. Getting through the door is another matter. Follow a worker trying to vote, a volunteer trying to reach voters and residents seeking an answer. Change one rule and see what it actually repairs.
Protection, Inc.: The Price of Power
You bought protection. Then the boss changed. Bargain for a community, test what the next captain may demand and discover when a personal deal becomes an institution, or fails to become one.
The Repression Trap
A government wants the streets quiet. Your campaign wants to keep going. Choose how to organize, compare the reactions to repression and explain why the same pressure can silence one audience while mobilizing another.
Reply Across
Letters arrive from Canada in 1992 and India in 1956. Give advice on sharing power, make a prediction and answer an objection. Only then open the historical record and decide what your original advice can still defend.
Everyone Says Democracy
Everyone checked democracy. They may mean very different things. Meet the political lives behind a survey answer, design a better measure and decide how much democratic support your evidence really establishes.
When the Center Breaks
A ruler leaves. Who can still govern? Open real case files from Tunisia, Egypt, Belarus and Sri Lanka, test rival explanations and confront evidence that may overturn the story you started with.
Name the Problem
Two people can read the same graph and see different political problems. Build a public interpretation, defend the benchmark behind it and answer a challenge. Your poster must carry a claim the evidence can support.
Hold the Headline
An unfinished bridge. A confident public claim. Two reporting slots. Choose which records to obtain before you see them, follow the evidence and decide what your newsroom can responsibly publish.
The Evidence Lab
A café queue. A navigation app. A very confident claim. Open the everyday mysteries, choose evidence that could separate the rival stories and build an investigation of your own.