Yeah my first run (Reformist but lost the war) I funded Health and Education thinking I would get prompted for a new budget annually and initial investments there would pay off Keynesian-style.
But funding Law Enforcement is actually extremely important if you intend to
root out the Sollist deep state root and branch.
Which I did to a maximalist extent in my second, successful run.
Lmao you went Dictator, defunded the military, joined CSP, didnt promote Lucian, and didn’t form the Anti-Corruption Police, didn’t you?
I’m pretty sure thats the route you have to take to alienate literally everyone in the cabinet and have every possible bid to overthrow you go off.
That that kind of game, with so much thematically and artistically bound up within it, could ever have come out at all, that was the real Insulindian Miracle
I came to terms with the inevitability that it was probably never going to get any follow-up, just like how I had to come to terms with the fact that the Song of Ice and Fire series will probably never be concluded. Its the definition of “Dont be sad its gone. Smile because it happened.”
The satire of ideologies in DE is genuinely some of the most biting satire in that regard anywhere. The satire of communism hits particularly hard because it comes from a place of real experience and affection.
It’s very strange, you can tell the writing for this game is all-timer level great because people can have wildly divergent interpretations of the game’s ultimate tone. It’s either one of the most depressing and defeatist games ever made, or one of the most optimistic and hopeful. And both interpretations are equally valid.
(I’m more in the optimism camp, for the record).