The Mandate: Political Sim

You told us the free trial was too short. You were right. This update makes it about three times longer and, more importantly, makes it the actual game. A LONGER FREE TRIAL The free portion used to be three weeks and three decisions. It is now the whole opening act, around ten weeks in office. Nothing was taken away from anyone: this is new free content. AND A FREE TRIAL WITH SYSTEMS IN IT Inside the free portion you now run a legislative docket, work the whip room, spend concessions on the Coalition Board, and write a full national budget across six ministries that goes to a floor vote you can lose. Your early decisions come back at you before the trial is over. A CABINET You now appoint ministers and they hold portfolios. They argue, they remember how you treated them, and they answer for what you decide. THE ARMY Command loyalty is tracked on its own, apart from public approval. Let it fall far enough and there is a path to a coup, with warnings before it. THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS The free portion now ends on an assessment of your term so far rather than a wall: six dimension ratings, weeks governed, decisions taken, bills passed, where the chamber stands, and a historian's read on how it is going. You can share it. SHARING FOR EVERYONE The weekly front page card is no longer locked behind a purchase. Anyone can publish their headlines. Also in this release: legislative votes and bill passage, the annual budget and fiscal cycle, a much wider spread of events across a playthrough, impeachment you can see coming, and fixes to the endings so every one of them is reachable.