History Videogame / RulersOfNations

** Then there are expies of [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets unsavory groups]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName on the far right]] in Europe, Israel, The USA and Russia

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: Zig-Zagged, but rather, we all live in France:
** All countries have their own internationally famous footballers, supermodels, modern artists and theatre actors.
** All countries have some level of welfare payments, though the amount depends on the country's income and where on the left-right political spectrum the sitting government is.
** It assumes that all countries have full control over their entire territory. In real life, for example, Azerbaijan has no control over Nagorno-Karabakh.

* NotSoDifferent: [[CommieNazis Totalitarian Extreme Left parties]] are [[DemocracyIsBad freedom and democracy hating]], [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic hate their neighbours and advocate absurd military spending]], [[BuryYourGays puts gays in prison or in a grave]] and [[AbsoluteXenophobe utterly hates ethnic minorities, immigrants and certain religions]].

* YourCheatingHeart: You have the option to start an affair with a local key figure of the opposite sex ({{GayOption}} is averted). This adds no benefit and can only lead to failure [[MortonsFork because whether you choose to or choose not to ever break off the relationship, you will be found out and deposed]].

** Total Jihad is a [[TheWarOnTerror Al-Qaeda/Taliban hybrid with cells worldwide]].

''Rulers of Nations'' is an {{Indie Game}} nation simulator by [[http://www.eversim.com/ French video game company Eversim]] that covers domestic policy, foreign policy, popularity, infrastructure, economy, trade and much more. Also known as Geo-Political-Simulator 2, it was released on is the second game in the "Commander In Chief" video game series, succeeding ''VideoGame/CommanderInChief'' and preceding ''VideoGame/MastersOfTheWorld'' - however, it is much more popular than both [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Commander In Chief]] and the [[GoodBadBugs infamously glitchy Masters of the World]]. It is relatively complex for a video game, thus many "Let's Play" videos have been made about it, [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Rulers+of+Nations+Lets+Play&page=&utm_source=opensearch as shown here]].

** [[CaptainObvious Of course, in more corrupt countries, you can bribe figures into doing whatever you want]]

** The other way to get a coup is for you to [[YouFailEconomicsForever screw up your economy and bankrupt the country]], in which case the military will overthrow you, assuming your party or parliament doesn't beat them to it. [[spoiler: Not only are you [[PublicExecution taken to a public square]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything to be shot]], [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare but your military leader will personally shoot you in the face]] ]]

* TheWarOnTerror:
** Total Jihad operates in most Western countries
** [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks The US Military]] operates bases in Australia, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Bosnia, Kosovo, Qatar, Italy, Kuwait, Germany and most importantly, Iraq and Afghaistan.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present) Afghanistan is home to military bases run by Turkey, Canada, Australia, the USA, France, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Spain and Italy]] in an effort to weed out the plethora of powerful terrorist groups there.

* AmericaTakesOverTheWorld[=/=]ChinaTakesOverTheWorld[=/=]JapanTakesOverTheWorld[=/=] TakeOverTheWorld : Possible but difficult. You can get points in competition mode by expanding your territory. May cause other problems that [[PyrrhicVictory outweigh your triumph]].

* AvertedTrope:
** {{Qurac}} and ArabianNightsDays are averted by giving each Middle Eastern country its own government, economy, military, etc.
** AllNationsAreSuperpowers: quite to the contrary, you can choose to play as the weakest, poorest countries in the world.
** DarkestAfrica and {{Bulungi}} is averted by giving each African country its own government, economy, military, etc.
** {{Christianity Is Catholic}} doesn't happen, instead, you have UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} divided into Catholic (led by UsefulNotes/ThePope in Rome), Protestant ([[CriticalResearchFailure inexplicably all united and led]] by the "[[UsefulNotes/AmericanChurches Pastor of New York]]" and UsefulNotes/{{Orthodox Christianity}} (led by the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarch_of_Constantinople Patriarch of Constantinople]]).
** The tropes UsefulNotes/ChineseDialectsAndAccents, JapaneseRanguage, FunetikAksent, [[UsefulNotes/AustralianAccent Australian accents]] and UsefulNotes/CanadianAccents are simply avoided by NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.

* MisplacedAccent[=/=]NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent:

* SpySatellite / KillSat: Military satellites exist in this game, they can be bought by anyone without sanctions and their purpose is to allow viewing of submerged submarines and numbers of military personnel/equipment that other countries have. There is only one way they can function as a [[KillSat Kill Sat]], which is that when they encounter another nation's satellite, they can be ordered to destroy that satellite, otherwise, satellites can't damage anything else.

* ZergRush[=/=]{{Conscription}}: Some poor authoritarian regimes like North Korea have large armies which are poor quality (1 star rating) but quickly replenish losses due to conscription. Most countries with conscription have 1 star military rating [[UsefulNotes/SwissWithArmyKnives with a]] [[UsefulNotes/IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles few exceptions]].

** [[spoiler: The player character's mother, however, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming openly praises the player]] when they achieve 75% or more popularity]].

** You can [[GoldenAge make your country rich]], [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure stamp out corruption, invest in public services, improve your human rights record]] and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming build refugee camps for any wandering groups of refugees]].

* OppressiveStatesOfAmerica: It's possible, though an {{Understatement}} to say that with much difficulty, you can turn America or any other country into a totalitarian regime.

* PoliticalIdeologies: All countries have political parties ( [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny even if just one]] ) backing the leader in power. From left-wing to right-wing, they are:
** [[CommieNazis Totalitarian extreme left]], [[DirtyCommunists Communist]], {{UsefulNotes/Socialism}}, Centre Left, Centre, [[FoxNewsLiberal Centre Right]], Right, [[GoodOldWays Conservative Rightist]] and [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Extreme Right]].
** [[GreenAesop "Ecologist" parties]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin are political parties that have a pro-environment agenda]]. They can be Socialist, Centre Left or Centre only.
** 2 exceptions to this rule are [[GeneralRipper Authoritarian, military parties]] and [[TheEmpire Royalist parties]]. Authoritarian, military parties aren't concerned with infrastructure or social policies, because they only care about keeping the current military junta strong through a large army,[[DayOfTheJackboot media censorship, banning unions and associations and having a highly politicized legal system featuring unfair trials and executions]]. Royalist parties, [[DemocracyIsFlawed while sometimes part of a multi-party democracy, exist solely to maximize the monarch's power]] and do this through [[NotSoDifferent a large army, media censorship, banning unions and associations and having a highly politicized legal system featuring unfair trials and executions]].
** The fact that Totalitarian Extreme Left and Extreme Right parties have many similarities is [[TruthInTelevision based on a real-life political phenomenon]] known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory the Horseshoe Theory]]

** The most likely in-game conflicts to start are [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar North Korea vs South Korea]], [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Russia vs Ukraine]], [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict Israel vs Palestine (or less commonly Jordan or Syria)]], [[UsefulNotes/IranIraqWar Iran vs Iraq]], [[CubanMissileCrisis USA vs Cuba]], [[UsefulNotes/TheCongoWars Congo-Kinshasa vs Rwanda]] and [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar China vs Japan]].

** [[TheTroubles There are powerful Northern Ireland-based terrorist groups operating in the United Kingdom]].

Rulers of Nations is an {{Indie Game}} nation simulator by [[http://www.eversim.com/ French video game company Eversim]] that covers domestic policy, foreign policy, popularity, infrastructure, economy, trade and much more. Also known as Geo-Political-Simulator 2, it was released on is the second game in the "Commander In Chief" video game series, succeeding ''VideoGame/CommanderInChief'' and preceding ''VideoGame/MastersOfTheWorld'' - however, it is much more popular than both [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Commander In Chief]] and the [[GoodBadBugs infamously glitchy Masters of the World]]. It is relatively complex for a video game, thus many "Let's Play" videos have been made about it, [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Rulers+of+Nations+Lets+Play&page=&utm_source=opensearch as shown here]].

** [[ThePresidentsOfGermany German President]] Christian Wulff

** Firstly, the military could get annoyed of your cuts to military spending. Your advisor will then call you saying that tanks are headed to your residence, [[spoiler: followed by your death the following day, using the {{ShotAtDawn}} method. However, the newspaper will state that your character [[FaceDeathWithDignity chose not to wear a blindfold at the firing squad]] ]]. Unfortunately, this can happen even if you are popular among the masses (and possibly other parties and NGOs).

** German President Christian Wulff

* ForcesWithFirepower: All countries have militaries in this game, and they are all player-controllable. Even if they are woefully tiny, for example Iceland's in game military consists of ''a grand total of 237 personnel'' (37 infantrymen and 200 sailors on a cruiser).

* TheRestOfTheNuclearClub: One of the few games to show the true numbers of nukes each nuclear weapons state has. Also, it shows some countries, such as [[KaijuDefenseForce Japan]], [[WeAreNotTheWehrmacht Germany]], [[SouthKoreansWithMarines South Korea]], [[CanucksWithChinooks Canada]], [[UkrainiansWithDepletedUranium Ukraine]], [[TheOtherChineseArmy Taiwan]] and [[NewSpanishArmada Spain]] as capable of immediately building new nuclear weapons, while all other countries with nuclear power stations (e.g. Iran, Armenia, Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, Mexico, South Africa, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden) can spend about 2 in game years researching nuclear weapons before being capable of building their own nukes.

** {{Christianity Is Catholic}} doesn't happen, instead, you have UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} divided into Catholic (led by UsefulNotes/ThePope in Rome), Protestant ([[CriticalResearchFailure inexplicably all united and led]] by the "[[UsefulNotes/AmericanChurches Pastor of New York]]" and {{Orthodox Christianity}} (led by the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarch_of_Constantinople Patriarch of Constantinople]]).

** The most likely in-game conflicts to start are [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar North Korea vs South Korea]], [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Russia vs Ukraine]], [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict Israel vs Palestine (or less commonly Jordan or Syria)]], [[UsefulNotes/IranIraqWar Iran vs Iraq]], [[CubanMissileCrisis USA vs Cuba]], [[CongoWars Congo-Kinshasa vs Rwanda]] and [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar China vs Japan]].

* ZergRush / Conscription: Some poor authoritarian regimes like North Korea have large armies which are poor quality (1 star rating) but quickly replenish losses due to conscription. Most countries with conscription have 1 star military rating [[UsefulNotes/SwissWithArmyKnives with a]] [[UsefulNotes/IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles few exceptions]].

* GameBreaker: One [[GoodBadBugs rare glitch]] allows the player to continue playing even after the leader's replacement by their own party or assassination (but not impeachment),

** The tropes ChineseDialectsAndAccents, JapaneseRanguage, FunetikAksent, [[UsefulNotes/AustralianAccent Australian accents]] and CanadianAccents are simply avoided by NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.

** All trade unionists, regardless of citizenship, speak in a [[AmericanAccents Cowpoke (stereotypical Wild West) accent]].