The nation state game is interesting for a verity of reason. It is clearly a very complex game. It took a lot of statigic trading with the city states to get all the items we wanted for our national projects. Though we were at the receiving end the of the only nuke in the game I am very proud of my group. We still manged to accomplish two out of three of the national projects we wanted. This is thanks in part to the recovery abilities build into the game and because of our alliance with other nations. Both of which I think make excellent reflections on the real world. How often do we lend aid to our allies or support to countries like Japan or Haiti after a natural disaster.
What I wish most though is that we had started this new version of the game much sooner, Its a perfect illustration of how government and foreign policy work in the real world. So its a shame we only used such a useful learning tool for how long we did. All in all though I'm glad that we could use it.
Beautifully said Edward, I think you "nailed" it, captured and discribed our Nation perfect!
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