Gamernomics

There is absolutely nothing "possible" about organ harvesting from political prisoners. The CCP has murdered tens of thousands of political prisoners for their organs. They've killed so many people for organs they built an entire transplant infrastructure around it, thousands of transplant centers, in a country with one of the lowest voluntary donation rates on the planet.

Yeah, we're got a pretty poor record in building institutions; a big bump in spending and better focus on viable states could be effective. The real issue I see is our tendency to leave dictators in charge who then subvert any institutions to maintaining and strengthening their rule. From a geopolitical strategy standpoint, which is where these decisions ultimately get made, it probably feels almost mandatory to go this route as you're able to better control a tyrant with a potentially restive population than you are a functioning state with popular support. Egypt is a great example of this; a dictator focused on stability and power maintenance with strong ties to the US is usurped by a popular uprising that ends up putting the Brotherhood in charge. So we look the other way, or maybe more, when the military says enough is enough and installs first itself and then Sisi; effectively bringing the whole thing full circle in what, 24 months?

So at the end of the day here, how do we go about managing all these states we seem doomed to meddle in without installing dictatorial regimes?

Holy shit I love your game! My problem however is that none of my friends will play it with me more than once! Something about getting nuked and over run by terrorists, or falling victim to realpolitik in action. How do I get them to play more than once?

Yeah i was going to mention the stabilizing influence that some dictatorial regimes can have so I'm glad you brought it up. I was also going to add the caveat that smooth transitions are rare and the stability is often accompanied by significant domestic repression, which is a bad thing.

Do you have insurance covering the criminal risk? Can you PM me the agency if so? I'd love to learn more about the underwriting environment.

If you don't have insurance on this, I'd recommend trying to get it. You may also want an opinion letter from a well positioned law firm to fall back on.

I'm finding the whole interplay between state and federal laws fascinating. What is the procedure if the status of your license is challenged (suspended/revoked) with respect to the cannabis in inventory that you possess?