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Simulation / About 55 minutes · planning estimate

The Hearing

Who holds the advantage? Build an evidence board, face questions about your sources and defend a bounded explanation of political competition. Choose a main case and a comparison from Russia, Malaysia, Malawi and Serbia. The historical outcomes are known; your argument remains open to challenge.

Simulation / 50–60 minutes · planning estimate

The Order Was Given

An order is not the whole story. Organize a legal opposition transport campaign in authoritarian Lydora: publish two promises, approach four organizations and learn from three rounds of replies. Change one venue-access rule, then explain its consequences and what remains unknown about votes.

Simulation / About 75 min or two sessions · provisional teaching plan

After the Count

Votes in. Power out. Investigate real elections in the UK, Israel, Liberia and New Zealand. Follow how votes become seats or one president, test rule comparisons and defend a consequence you value and a cost you accept.

Simulation / 45–65 active minutes · planning estimate

The Repression Trap

Why can a huge protest leave a ruler secure? In this solo simulation, follow the money, orders and everyday cooperation that keep a government working. Five choices turn civil-resistance theory into an argument about institutional pressure, human costs and the limits of apparent victory.

Simulation / Three 50-minute meetings · provisional teaching plan

When the Center Breaks

A ruler leaves. What actually changes? Investigate Tunisia, Egypt, Belarus and Sri Lanka through theories of revolution, real evidence and rival explanations. Build a dated causal account, audit it when new evidence arrives and make the explanation travel.

Simulation / Three resumable acts · timing needs a classroom pilot

The Power Circuit

Compare parliamentary, presidential and semi-presidential systems in an interactive political science game. Form governments, build coalitions and distinguish a defeated bill from losing office. Explore nine country cases, weigh institutional tradeoffs and develop a research hypothesis.

Simulation / Five episodes · estimated 60–90 minutes · save and resume

The World We Make

Two armed rivals meet. Their weapons remain dangerous. Can their relationship change what those weapons mean? Investigate the end of the Cold War and the campaign to ban landmines, carry records between exhibits, test an inspection protocol, and defend a coalition strategy. Compare ideas, identities and norms with material pressures and institutional incentives, then revisit your first prediction.

Created by Yoav Duman

Simulation / About 70 minutes · save and resume

The City Is Not the Walls

The council has fallen. The walls are still standing. So who makes the city? Write a charter for Kallia, hear six residents challenge it, and work through Aristotle’s arguments about citizenship, justice, virtue, and rule. Decide who belongs, trace who holds power, and defend your reasons against an objection. The ideas arrive as you need them; no prior Aristotle reading is required.

Created by Yoav Duman

Simulation / Core ~60 min · Full ~90 min · Save & return

The Common Fund

Build the rules of a fictional cooperative in Palestine, 1905–1948. Use Shafir and Peled’s Being Israeli to investigate how work, national belonging, donor finance, and institutional authority shape who gains access and who is left out.

Created by Yoav Duman

Simulation / Estimated 90–120 min · Save & return

A Seat, With Conditions

Advise a fictional Palestinian civic committee under the British Mandate. Use Rashid Khalidi’s The Iron Cage to investigate representation, public work, and the powers a seat at the table may leave untouched.

Created by Yoav Duman

Simulation / Two parts · about 135 minutes · save and resume

The Cities Are Moving

A country moves into the neighborhood. An agreement is already signed. Explain it through five international relations approaches, investigate an escort puzzle, and revise your advice as the evidence changes. Test a renewal proposal against consent, capacity, and competing interests, then take your reasoning to a new case.

Simulation / Estimated 90–120 min · Save & return

A Right on Paper

Follow people trying to reach a job, claim service benefits, live together, and return home under a court order. Use Shafir and Peled’s Being Israeli to explore who qualifies, who decides, and how rights become usable.

Created by Yoav Duman

Simulation

Everyone Says Democracy

A commission hears strong support for democracy and predicts that citizens will defend its institutions. You investigate that inference in fictional Bellmere. Two studies help you distinguish institutional support, democratic understanding and candidate choice, while showing why a convenient scale can lose important content. Follow linked respondents through exact comparisons, interpret a separate numerical exercise, and build a usable instrument within a twelve-slot budget. Then develop your own account in a new public-media case and design a comparison that could distinguish it from a rival. Your conclusions must respect legal powers, missing observations and the distance between hypothetical choices and actual votes. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation

The Persuasion Hearing

A supplier offers a chatbot for a public transit consultation, backed by a certificate showing that stored demographic profiles are disconnected. As an adviser to Bridgehaven’s Civic Technology Commission, you must decide what evidence a license needs. Read two recent AI-persuasion studies, check six sentences against official notices, reconstruct a proposed causal process and defend an enforceable rule within a limited audit budget. Then apply your reasoning to a fresh public-service case. Keep experimental comparisons, factual reliability, citizen access and political judgment distinct while making them inform one decision. Bridgehaven and its local records are fictional. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation

The Overloaded State

A flood-recovery office promises decisions within ten days. Its responsibilities grow, files wait at different stages, and warnings struggle to reach the people controlling resources. You investigate this fictional office through two research lenses: the relationship between implementation work and administrative capacity, and the effects of procedures, expertise and political pressure. Build an explanation, test a credible rival, and choose one constrained pilot while preserving lawful eligibility and appeals. Then transfer your reasoning to a water authority with different tasks and powers. The challenge is to connect an institutional action to a public outcome without inventing a reform effect. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation

The Democracy Alarm

Bellara's election dashboard and democracy report tell different stories. As an independent analyst, audit the fictional documents before deciding what the public should hear. Read a real scholarly dispute about democratic backsliding, then trace authority, decisions and access through dated records. Build a transparent measurement charter with three indicators and two different rules for combining them. Compare country and population weighting, choose a verification project under a staff-hour limit, and test your rule in an unfamiliar municipal dossier. The challenge is to defend a specific warning with evidence, keep unknowns visible and explain which observation could make you revise it. Created by Yoav Duman.

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The Civic Machine

Larkhaven needs a transit decision. Residents submit priorities, an AI produces a shared statement, and the council must decide what that statement authorizes. As an independent reviewer, follow a fictional consultation through dated documents, competing explanations and exact response counts. Two real studies examine AI mediation and persuasion, helping you ask what was tested and which institutional claims remain open. Construct possible response tables, defend a route and process under a budget and access rule, then investigate a different institution. Agreement is the beginning of your inquiry. Your task is to make a precise finding and explain what could change it. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation / 30–35-minute guided core; optional frontier +10–15

Major Decisions

A university is accused of manufacturing voters. Some political differences began before enrollment; others developed around classes, new friends, and a housing crisis. Choose an explanation, predict what evidence could distinguish it, then inspect a record and face a challenge to its timing. Two articles help separate field, attendance, policy outlook, and engagement. Play For class with a saved research brief or For fun with open browsing. An optional frontier changes the party choices while keeping preferences fixed: could a different ballot produce a different vote without changing anyone’s beliefs? Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation / 30–35-minute guided core; optional frontier +10–15

The Statement

Detainees are released after a public condemnation. The government claiming credit, the families who organized, and the diplomats who negotiated tell different stories. Choose an explanation, predict what evidence would strengthen or weaken it, and open a record before a new date challenges your account. Two research articles help separate approval, punishment preferences, and actual conduct. Play For class with a saved research brief or For fun with open browsing. An optional frontier asks whether an earlier condemnation shields a government from criticism—or makes its later violation more costly. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation / About 36 minutes + class debrief

After You

A climate promise crosses borders. Politics decides what follows. Vela announces a stronger emissions target; in Luma, workers, businesses, and coastal residents have different stakes. Advise the government, predict its next move, and follow records that complicate the obvious story. Test competing explanations, revise your claim, and propose the evidence you would seek next. After You connects introductory international relations to current research on cooperation and domestic bargaining. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation / 9 map levels · 12 stories · country comparisons

World Regions Lab

Bilingual in English and Spanish (Español). A map is only the beginning. Find your bearings, read evidence, and build the skills to ask bigger questions in social science and the humanities. Each geography level offers a learning guide and varied practice questions. Follow stories about borders, inequality, gender, and belonging, or compare countries with real data. Keep your discoveries to print or bring to class.

Simulation / One-file lesson · plan 50 minutes

The Complaints Department

Answer the question. Show what the evidence supports. In The Complaints Department, audit a department’s reply to a resident: check the question, pin relevant values, retain supported findings, and request suitable evidence for what remains open. Assign earnings, women’s representation, opinion of Congress, or the housing source audit as an individual file, or follow a selected sequence. First responses remain visible beside later replies; optional fresh cases test the same reasoning in invented settings. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation / 45–60 minutes · optional +10

Reply Across

Your advice arrives before hindsight. Two envelopes take you to Canada in 1992 and India in 1956, when the next arrangement was still contested. In Reply Across, recommend a proposal, preserve what you expect, answer an objection and later reopen your prediction beside the historical record. Compare federal powers, internal minorities and the categories used to count people—then decide which parts of your explanation can travel. A narrative simulation for students with a basic introduction to nationalism. About 45–60 minutes, with an optional ten-minute Spain postscript comparing Catalonia and the Basque Country. Save and print your addressed reply. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation / 45–60 minutes · optional +10

Manytide

A household has three destinations. A train arrives after the shift begins. A jurisdiction line does not tell you who needs a service. In Manytide, you follow a public-systems mission through five stops in a fictional country, making choices about records, work, rivers, authority and money. Read the evidence, predict what your arrangement will change, then return to the people and obligations it leaves behind. Explore nationalism, federalism and belonging through a story that gives your explanations something to answer for. About 45–60 minutes, with an optional ten-minute coastal detour. No prior theory knowledge needed. Save, revisit and print your field journal. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation / 10 stages · Core or Full guidance

Name the Problem

Name a pattern. Defend what deserves attention. In Name the Problem, you join a citizens’ assembly, compare two views of representation or democracy, and develop a public interpretation. Make the political value or benchmark behind your priority explicit, respond to a challenge, and defend action, further inquiry, or monitoring. Leave with a poster that states your final interpretation and a report that separately explains your revision.

Simulation / 10 chapters · about 50–60 minutes

Flags & Ferries

A flag on a pier. A ferry full of people. An ally with a price. In Flags & Ferries, you lead a small coastal state through tense choices about power, protection, and promises. Discover classical realism and structural neorealism through action while learning to read capability data and test explanations. Ten chapters. About 50–60 minutes. No prior knowledge needed. Your choices become a record you can revisit.

Simulation / About 55 minutes of active work

A Door That Says Open

A Door That Says Open is a single-player democracy investigation in Novara. Follow a worker trying to vote, an opposition volunteer trying to reach voters, and residents questioning power after an election. At a public hearing, test a hypothesis against records and ask for a timely response; then replay one changed rule. Apply the reasoning to Belora, a real comparative case, and a flood-plan hearing in Teren. Your explanations, revisions, and evidence appear in a printable report. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation / Solo 85–110 minutes · estimate

Greenovia: The Belonging Test

Three regions. One shared future. Every rule draws a line. Write Greenovia’s promise and flag, then follow language, citizenship, schools, religious access, immigration, voting and national symbols through eight council files. Explain who your rules include, exclude or burden. A new family case and a comparison lab test what you can explain. Solo take-home activity with browser saving, portable JSON backups, and PDF or HTML reports. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation / Four rehearsals · plan 45–55 minutes with discussion

The Square - A Collective Action Game

Twenty citizens want the same reform. Will enough of them act? Play Citizen B1 in four rehearsals of a collective decision, forecast the other nineteen citizens, and weigh personal payoffs against a shared goal. Compare local communication, a national coordination proposal, and participant-only incentives. Each reveal exposes pivotality and the programmed intervention effect with conditions held fixed. Explain the mechanisms in a printable or downloadable reasoning record. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation / Solo 45–55 minutes · estimate

Hold the Headline

A headline can travel faster than the evidence. Run a newsroom, question a public-service claim, and spend two reporting slots on an unfinished bridge. Explain why you chose your records, which claims they support or contradict, and what remains unknown. Preserve your first answers, revise your analysis, and leave with a report you can submit. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation / Solo 45–55 minutes · estimate

Protection, Inc.: The Price of Power

A captain offers protection. Which terms survive the captain? Bargain for your community, confront a replacement leader, and compare the same arrangement under different payment rules and enforcement. Investigate what continuing records, collectors, and guard command can establish—and what payment alone cannot tell you about legitimacy. Created by Yoav Duman.

Simulation / Core 30–40 min · Full 45–60 min · plus discussion

The Evidence Lab: Everyday Mysteries, Better Questions

A good story is only the beginning. Investigate a suspicious café claim, an accused navigation app, and a final battery-saver headline. Compare rival explanations, request evidence that separates them, and defend what the records support. Core teaches fair comparisons and event order; Full also asks students to design their own mystery and investigate public power. First checked responses, later revisions, and opened hints remain visible in a printable reasoning record. Created by Yoav Duman.