I was working on an essay once on the political ideology of city builder games.
For example, Will Wright is an American conservative, and the early SimCity games pretty strongly encode that ideology – not only in policing, as in Kay’s example, but in taxation. Citizens will always hate higher taxation no matter how good the public services you provide are.
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