Select the nation on your slip — that one only.Not the one that sounds best. The one on your slip.
3
Stop at the first screen and look up.
The Situation
It is 1919.
The guns have stopped. The treaties are signed.
Four years of industrial war have wrecked everything.
You have $10,000 and twenty years.
Your Score
HDI
Human development — whether your people are actually living well.
0.00
1.00
HDI is the only score. Money is not.
Every Round
Three phases, in order
Phase 1 · 4 min
Spending
Spend on four things. Three build your people. One arms them.
At your desk.
Phase 2 · 5 min
War & Diplomacy
Declare war, form an alliance, or stay neutral.
Out of your seat. Go talk to people.
Phase 3 · 3 min
Commodity Market
Buy resources. They pay you every round after.
At your desk.
Phase 1
The four things you can buy
+0.025
Education
Builds human capital. $400
+0.025
Healthcare
Protects you against collapse. $400
+0.010
Infrastructure
Raises your income next round. $500
−0.010
Military Units
Costs you HDI. You need them to win a war. $200
How a war is decided in this room
1
Declare out loud. Name your target. A war nobody heard did not happen.
2
Both sides read their Military Units. Higher total wins.
3
A tie goes to the defender.
4
Both nations record it on their own device. One Win, one Loss.
5
Every alliance you hold adds +2 Military Units. You may hold three.
6
Chemical weapons override the count — and cost HDI −0.10 plus sanctions.
Day 1 · Round 1 of 6
1919
The Peace That Wasn't
Every nation faces the same choice: rebuild your society, or rebuild your military.
12:00
Day 1 · Round 2 of 6
1922
The First Shock
Post-war demand has collapsed. Commodity prices are falling. American banks are lending to Europe — carefully.
11:00
Day 1 · Round 3 of 6
1925
Fragile Stability
Trade is recovering and US credit is flowing into Europe. This is the window.
11:00
End of Day 1
Stop where you are.
Your game saves automatically. Stopping mid-round is fine.
On a scrap of paper, before you go
What are you optimizing for?
Day 2
Open the game again
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Press Continue Game. Check your nation and round are right. The war rule has not changed.
Day 2 · Round 4 of 6
1928
Peak of the Bubble
Markets at all-time highs. Credit is cheap and everywhere. What does your nation do with this windfall?
10:00
Day 2 · Round 5 of 6
Finance is worth ZERO
1929
The Crash
Markets have collapsed overnight. Credit has vanished. Every nation is short at once.
12:00
Day 2 · Round 6 of 6
1933
The Abyss
World trade has collapsed by 65%. Nationalist movements surge where HDI is lowest. Final round.
11:00
Hands off your keyboards
It was never a made-up country.
1
Everyone stops at the Reveal button.
2
We go together. On three.
3
Read your card. Then be as loud as you like.
1:30
First question — before anything else
Look at where you ended up. Does it make sense for who you turned out to be?
Debrief · pick three
1
Who bought military units, and what did they cost you in HDI? Now — who formed alliances, and what did those cost?
2
Whose HDI rose across the Depression? What did they do that the rest of you did not?
3
Somebody used chemical weapons. What did the room do when you announced it?
4
Who was invaded and felt something unfair happened? Name it precisely.
5
The nations that ended lowest — were you poor because of what you did, or what you started with?
Simulation complete
1939 — the world endures.
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