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Democracy 3 from Positech Games is now available for download and purchase at Mac Game Store. The latest addition to the turn-based political strategy series once again simulates the motivations, loyalties, and desires of an entire country, challenging the player to run a country while managing voter opinion.

Democracy 3 simulates the motivations, loyalties and desires of everyone in the country. A custom-designed neural network is used to model individual voters, each which varying memberships of voting groups, political parties and pressure groups. Each voters income is modeled, along with their levels of complacency and cynicism. This is the most sophisticated political strategy game ever created.

Despite being vastly detailed under-the-hood, Democracy 3 has a unique user interface that makes visualizing the connections between laws, policies, voters and situations easy. A simple iconic-based view of your countries issues allows you to 'drill-down' through all the relationships between policies and voters to quickly analyze the impacts of your decisions. Your trade policy may affect GDP, which will affect unemployment, which will effect poverty, and thus crime, leading to a change in tourism, which affects GDP...

Each individual voter is a mixture of a subset of the 21 different voter groups represented within the game. They might be a young, wealthy, liberal socialist commuter, or a retired conservative religious capitalist, for example. Not only this, but the extent to which they identify each of those groups is both variable, and can be affected by your policies in the long term. Convert your country to religion, or atheism, to capitalism, or socialism by careful and nuanced adjustment of your policies and laws over time. A 'focus group' feature lets you look at individual voters and see exactly how they came to a decision to vote for you (or not!).

Features:

• Complex economic & political model.
  
• Thousand of detailed AI Voters.
  
• Unique user interface.
  
• Multiple countries to govern.
  
• The only true government-simulation game.
  
• Hundreds of events, policies and laws to choose from.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.6 or later
  
• 1 GHz Intel Mac
  
• 2 GB RAM
  
• 500 MB HD Space
  
• 256 MB VRAM

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