I like that there isn't a benefit to right-wing shit in the game. Capitalists will contribute to an investment pool that pads construction costs, but it portrays the first contradiction of capitalism really well. You overproduce while alienating the consumer base until the majority of people can't buy the goods. Gender discrimination gives you a 5% additional birthrate but that's at the cost of 15% more workers and you constantly get suffragette events with negative penalties. Racism only hurts migration and causes negative events/separatist movements, while slavery and serfdom only enrich the aristocrats who prevent you from passing any of the legislation which improves the economy. Restricting literacy only hurts your research output, hurting the workers only intensifies the revolutionary factions and creates turmoil that halves your tax income.
Beyond showing different Marxist ideas and socialist policies, the game illustrates why they're important. A country is objectively better when there's universal participation and benefit, objectively weaker the more it tries to enforce existing power structures built on obvious contradictions. No other grand strategy game has the same teaching potential.
I like that there isn't a benefit to right-wing shit in the game. Capitalists will contribute to an investment pool that pads construction costs, but it portrays the first contradiction of capitalism really well. You overproduce while alienating the consumer base until the majority of people can't buy the goods. Gender discrimination gives you a 5% additional birthrate but that's at the cost of 15% more workers and you constantly get suffragette events with negative penalties. Racism only hurts migration and causes negative events/separatist movements, while slavery and serfdom only enrich the aristocrats who prevent you from passing any of the legislation which improves the economy. Restricting literacy only hurts your research output, hurting the workers only intensifies the revolutionary factions and creates turmoil that halves your tax income.
Beyond showing different Marxist ideas and socialist policies, the game illustrates why they're important. A country is objectively better when there's universal participation and benefit, objectively weaker the more it tries to enforce existing power structures built on obvious contradictions. No other grand strategy game has the same teaching potential.