The Mandate: Political Sim

Promises come due, second terms remember, and budgets can be lost in any year. - The midterm campaign's promises now come back: the party machine sends its bill, a press officer leaks the folder, and the spending pledge is judged against your next budget. - A second term has a memory. The direction you set at the inauguration shapes the years that follow, and a new epilogue answers what election night decided. - The Appropriations Act is fought every year of the term, not only at its end. - A tax raise costs you every year you hold it, and the money it raises is a reserve you can spend. A tax cut has to be paid for. - A long second term wears on public approval. Keep winning the country back or face a recall. - Election night tells you how close the midterm came. - Your opening choices now pay off within the free chapters. - An optional weekly reminder, offered after the prologue. - Many fixes to endings, scandals, the officer corps and saved games, including resuming on the screen you were reading.