We’ll hand you a country in a living world of 8 billion AI citizens.
Swear your oath, rule for seven days alongside other human presidents, and hand over everything you’ve built—or destroyed—to whoever comes next.
Every citizen has a voice. Talk to them. Hear what they think of your presidency.
Brazil–Argentina border at a flashpoint
How a turn plays
Each term is one long turn of seven real days, and the world keeps turning when you close the tab. The game is built for short visits: a game-day passes every ten minutes, so one week holds almost three years of budgets, storms and votes.
You’re dealt one of 193 real countries, mid-game, among real neighbours. Read the dossier your predecessor left, then take the oath.
Decision cards land with timers while ten systems tick underneath. Make the calls that matter; your AI cabinet plays the routine ones.
Real players next door, AI leaders with long memories, summits, treaties and Global Council votes. Alliances are optional; consequences aren’t.
Get scored against a caretaker AI, earn titles, write a note. The next player inherits the lot, buried problems included.
01The in-tray
Border flare-ups, budget calls, trade offers and council votes arrive as cards, each with a timer and a few real options. Your ministers recommend one. Decide in time, or the clock goes with their pick.
02Your AI cabinet
Set an autopilot limit and your ministers handle the routine work under it. Message any of them and they answer in character, with opinions of their own. Crises always wait for you.
03Diplomacy & the Global Council
Message your neighbours, coordinate with your regional bloc, sign treaties, and break them if you can live with the cost. All 193 seats vote in the Global Council, and everybody remembers how you voted.
Under the hood
Every country runs the same ten interlocking systems, seeded from real-world data for all 193 of them, so an island state and a continental power play nothing alike. Pull one lever and the others move.
One decision, five systemsA game-day later, in the same country
Up close
Every system is a board of its own, and they all share one country. This is what they look like mid-turn.
01 · The People
Eight factions with their own support and heat. Help one and another cools on you; let heat pass 70 and they strike, block roads or plot. Political capital is what you spend to hold it together.
The country behind you
Approval 49%05 · Storylines
Storylines run over several parts and branch on your calls. Some choices get buried, and resurface in the next player’s term with your name on them.
Part 1: you approved the dam over the farmers’ objections.
FFinance Pay it. A half-built dam is worse than none.
AAgriculture Patch it. The harvest needs that money now.
03 · The Assembly
Reforms go through a chamber with its own parties and balance. Forecast the vote, spend capital to whip, cut deals. Fall far enough and they table a confidence motion.
The Assembly · 151 seats
Too close to call06 · The Living Planet
Seasons and hazards come from each country’s real risk profile, so a typhoon belt and a drought belt face different years. Forecasts give you a day or two to act.
08 · Regions
Each region has its own mood and grievances. Tour them, fund them, and watch the tiles turn. At the end of the term they give their verdict.
09 · Leaders & Summits
AI leaders have personalities and memories of how you treated them. At summits you back, block or amend each agenda item until the communique is signed.
04 · Executive Power
40 decrees. Courts can strike them down. Erode the courts and your successor inherits what’s left.
02 · The Podium
Press questions, pledges with measurable targets, and a front page every game-morning.
Pledge kept: inflation drops below 8%
Blockade, day 3. Farmers hold the Delta road as talks stall.
Op-ed. “Who is the pension reform really for?”
07 · Economy 2.0
Six sectors, monthly jobs reports, poverty, the currency and the banks.
Multiplayer, one week at a time
Every seat has a history. You start where the last player stopped, with their debts, half-built projects and buried stories, and you’re scored only on what you add.
Handoff note · flags for your successor
— the outgoing presidentNext in office
The Kofi Bridge · named by its builder, term 41
Season 2 · November 2026
The standings and the awards start fresh on the 1st. Your world, and every person in it, never do.
Top of the board
The world right now
Standoffs flare, treaties get signed and broken, the council votes. Here’s what’s happening in the busiest world as you read this.
The World Clock
Live worldLook anyone up by name. They have parents, a partner, children, a job and a home town, and every life rolls on the laws presidents pass: the schools you fund and the wars you start show up in real people.
The schools budget you pass decides how this goes.
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Play nowA multiplayer strategy game. Each player runs one real country for one real week (a term), against the clock, the world and ten interlocking systems: factions, the press, a legislature, decrees and courts, branching storylines, seasons and hazards, the economy, regions, AI world leaders and your legacy. You’re scored against a caretaker AI, and the next player inherits the country.
See the ten systemsNo. The countries and their starting data are real; everything else is simulated. Parties, politicians, leaders, journalists and events in the game are all invented, there are no real parties or public figures, and you’re never asked to back a side. You win by leaving your country better off than the caretaker AI would have.
No. A term is seven real days, and a game-day passes every 10 minutes, but your AI cabinet governs while you’re away and handles routine decisions under your autopilot limit. Crises wait for you. If a card’s clock runs out, the cabinet’s recommendation is applied.
You’re handed a seat. Matchmaking places you in a real country, usually near other human players, so your neighbours are people you can actually deal with. Seats rotate between terms.
Every world holds all 193 UN member states. Some seats are held by real players, some by AI presidents with their own styles, and the rest are run by caretaker cabinets. Human players tend to be grouped by region.
Against a caretaker: the same country from the day of your oath, run as if the clock had decided every card. Inheriting a mess doesn’t count against you; beating the caretaker line does. Your term also gets a grade.
You write a handoff note, your term gets a grade, and the next president inherits everything you leave, including any cards still on the clock. You can take another seat afterwards, and your record follows you in your profile and the Hall of Presidents.
Yes, but it costs reputation, and your next seat opens two hours later. Once a day you get a free swap: hand a country back within 15 minutes of your oath and you get a new one right away, with no reputation lost.
The countries are the 193 real UN member states with real starting figures, provinces, hazards and economies. Everything that happens to them, and every leader and party, is simulated.
Read the TermsPublic game data only: conflicts, treaties, council votes, markets, the leaderboard and a running feed, with players’ public handles. Messages are never shown there.
Watch the world liveYes. In a conversation or on a player’s country, open the … menu and choose Block or Report. A blocked player’s messages never reach you, and they aren’t told. Reports are reviewed by people, and an automatic filter masks profanity and removes contact details from everything players write.
Read the Community GuidelinesOnly if you allow it. Ministers and AI presidents are written by an AI model, and before your first message to one the game asks whether to allow AI replies. With them off, nothing you write is sent to an AI provider and AI conversations are unavailable. You can still play and read your conversations. Change it any time in Settings → Privacy → AI replies.
Read the Privacy PolicyYes, at any time: Settings → Delete account in the game, or email support. Your handle is removed from past records.
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