GovSim
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Play a fictional American president across two terms, coach your strategy against autopilot, and see monthly family budget impacts.
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Live open-source presidential simulation at gsim.ngi.video with vintage Americana art, strategy coaching, perk drafts, and instant browser play.
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Nonpartisan U.S. Presidential and macroeconomic simulation at gsim.ngi.video where you govern across 32 quarterly turns inside a layered vintage Americana Oval Office—drafting quarterly task-force perks, stacking Policy Doctrine combos, coaching your moves against a same-seed Autopilot baseline, and seeing how fiscal and tariff choices change monthly family budgets.
Why it was built
Most political games treat governing as simple partisan sliders with no strategic feedback, leaving players guessing why their economy trailed doing nothing or how tax rates, spending bills, and interest rates affect real households.
Why it helps
Shows a live Beat-the-Baseline score preview and Chief of Staff playbooks before you end each quarter, tracks pending bills and crises on a stacked index card, and translates federal policy into monthly household dollar impacts.
What you can do
- Beat-the-Baseline Strategy Coach with live score-delta previews and rotating three-path Chief of Staff playbooks
- Layered vintage Americana Oval Office with borderless pill-pawn character rigs, manila folder tabs, and optional Dark Americana Evil Mode
- Quarterly task-force perk drafts, Policy Doctrine set bonuses, and a stacked turn agenda card tracking clearing bills
- Kitchen-Table household dollar calculator, spectrum-balanced Civics Myth busters, and full parameter Model Inspector at gsim.ngi.video
Public open-source macro-fiscal simulator (`brbrainerd/govSim`) — receives oss_public model/search/harness primitives only.
What you see & how you interact
Warm 1940s/50s vintage Americana Oval Office stage (oval-day-bg.jpg + dark espresso oval-evil-bg.jpg) with borderless pill-pawn character rigs and physical Manila Folder left-rail tabs.
Beat-the-Baseline Strategy Coach vs. same-seed Autopilot, 3 one-click Chief of Staff Playbooks (STAGE PLAY +), ★ PENDING & CLEARING ★ agenda card, 2/4/6 Policy Doctrine set bonuses, and Kitchen-Table family cashflow.
Switch between Standard Public Servant Mode (daytime Oval Office + Strategy Coach), active 2/4/6 Policy Doctrine Set Bonuses, Legislation & Executive Perk Drafting, and Satirical "Evil Mode" (dark espresso-parchment kleptocracy tracking Offshore Stash $B vs. Special Counsel Heat 0–100).
- Beat-the-Baseline Strategy Coach & 2/4/6 Doctrine Bonuses: Compare live Prosperity Index deltas against a same-seed Autopilot baseline while stacking 2/4/6 Policy Doctrine set bonuses and drafting turn perks.
- Kleptocratic Siphoning & Crony Enrichment: Award No-Bid Crony Procurement Contracts (+$15.0B Stash, +14 Heat), stage a Fire-Sale Auction of Federal Lands (+$25.0B Stash, +22 Heat), or Carve Out Targeted Tariff Exemptions (+$10.0B Stash, +10 Heat).
- Hand-Tuned Dark Americana Art: Never uses a lazy CSS invert() filter—every surface swaps to dark espresso-parchment cards, crimson-and-gold ribbons, and wicked character expressions.
Engineering Velocity & Open-Source Hygiene
Synced from @brbrainerd and @vox-foundation via the GitHub GraphQL API (GET /api/github/stats).
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