Об игре
Democracy is under pressure. Your team of 2–6 players must work together across six rounds to hold it together and push back against the forces trying to tear it down. It's a cooperative game. You succeed or fail as a team.
Three tracks sit at the center of the board: Build, Win, and Sustain. Each represents a pillar of democratic health. Every track starts above zero and must reach 8 or higher by the end of Round 6. Let any one of them drop to zero, and the game is over. You lose immediately. But keeping the tracks healthy isn't enough on its own.
Looming over every game is a single Root Threat, a systemic force like Rising Authoritarianism or Electoral Distrust that grows more dangerous the longer it goes unchallenged. It has its own tracker, its own requirements, and its own defeat threshold based on how many players are at the table. You can have all three Tracks maxed out and still lose if the Root Threat isn't defeated. This is the game's central tension: you can't just play defense.
Every round, your team faces the hard choice: protect the tracks or advance on the Root Threat? Ignore the round threats and your BWS Tracks erode. Ignore the Root Threat and you'll reach Round 6 with healthy tracks and still lose. The game is won by teams that communicate, coordinate card trades, and make deliberate decisions under pressure.