I start to make evil empires in stuff like that, RimWorld, and your Crusader Kings type games and inevitably get bored and annoyed because competent honesty with a modicum of mutual respect is usually so much more effective at exploiting the masses of the value of their labor.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 8 hours ago

Drag created a socialist utopia in Democracy 3 without all that much trouble. The trick is to start with prison reform to lower crime, and then implement policies which turn more of the population into environmentalists until there's enough support to ban cars.

Then drag tried to make a fascist dictatorship, and it's hard. Every policy which makes the core base happy ruins the economy! Debt, debt everywhere!