economy strategy game - play as a socialist nation?

[apostrophefz]

Hey all.

Do your know any good economy/trade game (akin to paradox games) focused or which allows the control of a socialist goverment?

[Comrade_Rory]

Well there are the Supreme Ruler games but I'm not sure how good they are (never really played them much).
There's also Democracy 3 which was pretty fun but it's entirely political based. There's no map or anything.

[eXistenZ]

Democracry 3 is fun, but one "bad" aspect of it is that it almost completly ignores international politics.

How about Superpower 2? I have it in my steam library (not played yet), but from some gameplay I have seen what you look for should be in the game. Doesnt victoria 2 has some internal politics as well?

[GreyFox]

Distant Worlds Universe maybe? You can take a high-level view of your economy and strategy, or get as nitty-gritty as you like.

[apostrophefz]

I mean,
I really know nothing of the ins and outs of any socialist theory or ideology, but I'd very much to see a game focused on management of this universe.
I suppose a player could configure his play style to fit loosely according socialism, but what I ask is is there a game strictly built to put the player in the place of a socialist governant, for good or ill, and to savor the (probable) benefits and downsides of it.
I learn a lot through gaming, and playing this would complement my geopolitical intellect.

[leviath]

Victoria 2 aka Socialism Simulator.

[apostrophefz]

Victoria 2 aka Socialism Simulator.

I don't own Victoria 2, please dissert on sir.

[SLN445]

Victoria 2 is the paradox game that covers the Victorian era to roughly post WW1 with a focus on populations, industrialization and what follows suit, since this is the period that the ideas of socialism emerge the game allows you to push a socialist party to power with the flow on effects onto the economy and social platform.

[apostrophefz]

Another reason why I should buy victoria 2. There could be a sale in steam. THank you all!

[Thanatos]

If you're still interested, the Tropico series lets you run a socialist "utopia."

[★Bandiera Rossa☭]

The Geo-Political simulator series is a diamond in the rough - it lets you do a huge amount of stuff, but for this very reasons a lot of its features are broken or nerfed. It also has a shaky idea about the politics of real-world parties and regimes..for example: Fatah is portrayed as a Communist Party..and in the Vanilla game you're stuck with equivalents of real-world parties. (The Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians are the only options for the U.S. for example) It's also extremely expensive.

If you're still interested, the Tropico series lets you run a socialist "utopia."

It's a good series, but it's more like economic nationalism. By default the government by default builds the majority of buildings and everything, but the extent to which you can actually do socialist types of things is pretty limited. You can't really have a free-market regime either, at most you can be a kleptocratic regime with high inequality.

[Knight of Heaven]

Hum the new Tropico 5 gives you more flexibility. The political edicts shape your policy, and then there is the constituition options.
You dont need to have a nationalistic society at all if you dont want to. .