THE SIMULATION LIBRARY
Solo simulations. Choices with consequences.
Choose a question. Follow a subject. Find your way in.
4 of 17 activities · Authoritarianism
The order is clear. Whose cooperation does it actually secure?
Organize a legal opposition transport campaign in authoritarian Lydora. Publish two promises, approach four independent organizations and learn from three rounds of replies. Then change one public-venue access rule and explain what it changes, what it leaves in place and what you still cannot know about votes.
Who holds the advantage, and what is your evidence?
Investigate incumbent advantages and opposition opportunities through case files from Russia, Malaysia, Malawi and Serbia. Open two files, build an explanation from sources and defend it at a hearing. Trace how an actor’s action changes another actor’s options, weigh a complication and a rival, and compare what makes electoral competition unequal or opens space for a challenge.
The streets are full. Why is the president still in power?
Lead a movement through five decisions about rallies, workplace refusals, repression and political offers. Track whose cooperation changes, sustain participants, and test the same move under a different outside-backing package. A promise, a leader’s departure and democracy are different outcomes.
A ruler leaves. What actually changes?
Open real case files from Tunisia, Egypt, Belarus and Sri Lanka. Test theories of revolution, interrogate numbers and sources, and defend what changed in political authority. New evidence may challenge your first explanation.