The deepest political simulation ever built for a phone. Win the election. Form a coalition. Balance a budget that refuses to balance. Survive the press, the courts and the street — all with the next election breathing down your neck.
Every number in Politicus is doing real work. Taxes start at each country's actual rates. The budget bleeds real interest on real debt. Voters remember what you promised — and so does your coalition partner.
Monthly income and spending, national debt with a credit rating, interest that compounds, inflation with a central bank breathing down your neck. Calibrated to real-world data — VAT, income and corporate tax rates start where they actually stand in each country.
Ten to fifteen ministries per country, each stacked with real legislation: healthcare, pensions, energy, courts, media, migration. Every act has multiple options with distinct budget, voter and state effects.
Your junior partner has demands, a trust meter and a breaking point. Give away ministries, deliver on their agenda or watch your majority walk out the door mid-term. Minority government is always an option — good luck.
Farmers, unions, big business, students, the church, the army. Every decision moves someone — usually against you. Election night adds it all up, district by district, with a live results broadcast.
A corruption engine that tempts you with easy money and buries you with investigations. Fictional media outlets with their own editorial lines. Constitutional courts, vetoes, impeachment — the full arsenal of things that can end you.
Strikes in the shipyards, chaebol scandals, IMF missions, by-election shocks, cacerolazos under the palace windows. Events are written per country, not translated boilerplate — each state feels like itself.
Anyone can judge a government. Politicus lets you find out whether you could run one.
One guided term with an advisor at your side. Learn elections, budgets, coalitions and scandals step by step — then take the training wheels off.
A guided journey through all five countries — start in the USA, end in Argentina. Win each election to unlock the next country. Five levels, rising difficulty, one political career.
Every country unlocked from minute one. Pick a state, pick a party — or build your own from scratch — set the difficulty and govern your way. No rails, no order, full freedom.
Not five skins of the same map. Each country runs its actual constitutional machinery — its own election calendar, institutions, crises and ways to lose power.
Presidential system, midterms that punish, a Supreme Court and a Congress that works three days a week.
Westminster rules: the Lords, the Monarch, devolved elections, gilts wobbling every time you tweet.
Coalition chess, Brussels watching your courts, EU funds on the line and a street that knows how to march.
One five-year term, no re-election. Chaebols, a fertility crisis, the North across the border — and impeachment if you slip.
Hard mode. Inflation in double digits, the IMF at the door, nine defaults of history behind you. Optimism never devalues.
Real gameplay, straight from the current build. No mock-ups.
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