Feature launches and design notes from the team building Lawmaker — what just shipped into the living world, and why we built it that way.
The Supreme Court has arrived. Any party can appeal against an unconstitutional law, a lawless minister, a rogue president, or an amendment that can't stand — and if the court agrees, the remedy happens automatically. The bench is anonymous, the votes are secret until the ruling, and a tie goes to the status quo. Find it under Justice → Supreme Court.
Read the dispatch →Global Decisions is live: world-wide dilemma events hit every country at once, no warning given. Each country's parties vote Yes or No — one party, one vote, cast by the leader, with a public reason locked the moment it's submitted. Twelve days later every country resolves on its own, and the world's answers can split however the politics falls out.
Read the dispatch →A country's GDP growth used to be a single dial. Now it's the blended result of twelve industries — Technology, Oil & Gas, Financial Services and nine more — each moving with the world economy. Pick an economic focus at founding, from Petrostate to Technology Powerhouse, and watch that specialism compound.
Read the dispatch →Your constitution's 18 executive powers just started doing something. Ban, arrest, and pardon are live today, with fifteen more on the way. Use them and your party earns autocracy — a new reputation that fades over time but costs you votes for as long as it lasts. Find it under Characters → Executive Actions on your country page.
Read the dispatch →The social feed just got two upgrades. Every country now fields a press corps of up to four journalists — broadsheet, tabloid, gossip, and a numbers -literate wonk — each covering the news in their own voice. And ordinary electors have started showing up in the same feed, posting honest reactions and the occasional genuine change of heart.
Read the dispatch →Voter Demands & Pledges is live in the alpha. The voters name your worst fiscal weakness and dare you to fix it — pledge for free, ride the People's Pledge boost through the next election, then discover two elections later that the promise you made alone can only be delivered together. Fail in power, and Broken Promises lands before the votes are even counted.
Read the dispatch →Runaway deficits finally have a circuit-breaker. When a nation's debt hits 200% of GDP, the IMF takes the budget out of your hands — 50% taxes, spending slashed, a year-long recession, and a "Destroyed Economy" brand for every party that voted for the slide. There is one carrot. It's 5%.
Read the dispatch →The law catalogue has more than doubled — from 37 laws to 95, with 445 positions across 21 categories. Guns, nuclear power, AI, asylum, blasphemy, organ donation — plus a new Laws Explorer to see how every country in the world has settled each fight. Your legislature will never run out of arguments again.
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