15 scenarios · 7 attributes · about 5 minutes

Your politics.
Your stat block.

Choose your reactions. Build your political character.

The corner shop is closing. A driverless shuttle is waiting. What do you do?

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Character sheetLVL 01

SOCSocial outlook?

COREconomic outlook?

PLUPluralism?

DECPower distribution?

TECTechnology?

HETIntellectual style?

COSWorld outlook?

Alignment? It is complicated.

The seven attributes & how scoring works

This is a playful snapshot of the reactions you chose, not a scientific test or a prediction of your vote.

SOC / Traditionalist ↔ Progressive. Preserve inherited social norms or welcome changes to how people live.

COR / Egalitarian ↔ Market-oriented. Favor redistribution and limits on corporate power or markets and entrepreneurship. These are broad bundles, not exact opposites.

PLU / Ends-first ↔ Rules-first. Prioritize your side’s goals or protect opposition rights and fair rules even when your side loses.

DEC / Centralized ↔ Decentralized. Concentrate decisions or distribute control, regardless of which side holds power.

TEC / Precautionary ↔ Accelerationist. Wait for stronger safeguards or adopt new technology sooner despite unresolved risks.

HET / Consensus-oriented ↔ Heterodox. Give established agreement more weight or favor challenges to prevailing views. Neither score measures intelligence or accuracy.

COS / Nation-first ↔ Cosmopolitan. Prioritize your own national community or people across borders equally.

The first seven scenarios each give one attribute a signal. Later scenarios affect more than one attribute. Their signals have half weight.

Each reaction has its own signals, ranging from −2 to +2. It can move two attributes in opposite directions. Passing removes the scenario from every affected attribute.

For each attribute, we divide the weighted sum by twice the answered weight, multiply by five, and round to the nearest integer. Exact halves round toward positive infinity. No answers means ?, not zero. The number of signals varies by attribute and appears beside each score.

Feats are playful labels for scores of at least +3 or at most −3, with at least two scored scenarios. They do not certify a belief.

Read all scenarios, reactions, and signals

The family wedding
Your cousin asks you to help plan their wedding ceremony. The family has used the same vows and roles for generations. The couple is open to keeping them or trying something different.
- I write a new ceremony with them, from the vows to who walks in first.SOC +2 × 1
- I change the roles and wording, but keep the familiar shape of the ceremony.SOC +1 × 1
- I keep the traditional vows and roles, and personalize the music and clothes.SOC −1 × 1
- I help arrange the customary ceremony. I want it to connect them to earlier generations.SOC −2 × 1
The surprise game hit
The game your small studio made is a hit. Wages and bills are paid, and there is a large profit left. As the founder, you have the final say on the bonus pool.
- I give the team a substantial bonus and leave most of the profit with the owners.COR +1 × 1
- I split the profit equally among everyone who worked on the game.COR −2 × 1
- I distribute the profit according to ownership stakes. Those were the agreed terms.COR +2 × 1
- I give most of it to the team, with a smaller share for the founders and investors.COR −1 × 1
The midnight curfew
Arson attacks threaten your town's night market. The mayor proposes a week-long curfew starting tonight, before the usual court review. Campaigners ask for your signature.
- I ask for an emergency court hearing before the curfew starts.PLU +1 × 1
- I sign for the immediate curfew. The court can review it after the week.PLU −2 × 1
- I support blocking the curfew until residents can challenge it through the normal process.PLU +2 × 1
- I sign for one night only, with a court hearing tomorrow.PLU −1 × 1
Three squares to rebuild
Three neighborhoods are redesigning their public squares. You trust both the town council and the neighborhood organizers. A ballot asks who should control the money and the plans.
- I give the council the final decision, after it hears what each neighborhood wants.DEC −1 × 1
- I give each neighborhood its share of the money and let its residents decide.DEC +2 × 1
- I give the council one budget and ask it to produce a coordinated plan for all three.DEC −2 × 1
- I let each neighborhood choose its design within a few town-wide requirements.DEC +1 × 1
Your ride has arrived
At a technology fair, a driverless shuttle opens for its first public rides. It has completed its test runs. An ordinary bus is also waiting at the stop.
- I try the short demonstration ride with a safety operator on board.TEC +1 × 1
- I take the bus. I want a few years of everyday use before I ride without a driver.TEC −2 × 1
- I book the first fully driverless ride. This is what I came to see.TEC +2 × 1
- I watch today and wait for an independent safety review before I try it.TEC −1 × 1
The museum's awkward discovery
You are helping plan a museum display about your town's founding. A researcher presents documents that challenge the accepted story. Most local historians still favor the existing account.
- I build the display around the account most historians accept.HET −2 × 1
- I commission an independent review of the documents before I choose the display's story.HET +1 × 1
- I build the display around the researcher's account and include the disputed documents.HET +2 × 1
- I keep the accepted account, but add a panel about the disputed documents.HET −1 × 1
The flood-relief jar
Your neighborhood stall raises money for flood relief. There is a relief fund in your country and another across the border. You have been asked to send the donations.
- I divide the money evenly between the two funds.COS +1 × 1
- I send it all to the fund in my country. I want to help our own communities first.COS −2 × 1
- I ask where the money can help most people, then send it there regardless of the border.COS +2 × 1
- I send most of it to the fund at home, and a smaller share across the border.COS −1 × 1
The national holiday concert
Your town funds a concert for its national holiday. You help choose the performers and program. The usual plan is a band from your country playing traditional songs.
- I commission a band from my country to rewrite the old songs into something new.SOC +2 × 0.5 · COS −1 × 0.5
- I audition bands from any country and let the chosen band create a new program.SOC +2 × 0.5 · COS +2 × 0.5
- I book a band from my country to play the traditional set.SOC −2 × 0.5 · COS −2 × 0.5
- I invite a band from abroad to perform our traditional songs.SOC −1 × 0.5 · COS +1 × 0.5
The corner shop closes
Your local grocer is retiring. A supermarket chain wants the shop. The staff want to buy it together. A local entrepreneur is also looking for investors.
- I buy a share in the staff cooperative and leave the staff in charge.COR −2 × 0.5 · DEC +2 × 0.5
- I help the local entrepreneur buy and run the shop.COR +1 × 0.5 · DEC +1 × 0.5
- I campaign for the town to buy it and run it as a public shop.COR −2 × 0.5 · DEC −1 × 0.5
- I support the chain's takeover. Its central operation can offer a wider range.COR +2 × 0.5 · DEC −2 × 0.5
The railway through town
A government you trust plans a railway through your town. Local councils want route changes, and residents have filed appeals. Work cannot start until the route dispute is settled.
- I campaign for one national route, with the appeals heard before work starts.PLU +2 × 0.5 · DEC −2 × 0.5
- I campaign to give the local councils the final say, without a further appeal.PLU −2 × 0.5 · DEC +2 × 0.5
- I help the councils agree on a route, with residents still able to appeal.PLU +2 × 0.5 · DEC +2 × 0.5
- I sign the fast-track petition: one national route, no more local appeals.PLU −2 × 0.5 · DEC −2 × 0.5
The keys to everything
Your apartment building is trying smart locks. One version lets each household manage its own lock. Another gives the building team control through one app. Regular locks can stay for now.
- I install the shared-app version now and let the building team manage access.TEC +2 × 0.5 · DEC −2 × 0.5
- I keep my regular lock until the technology matures, then choose a lock I control myself.TEC −2 × 0.5 · DEC +2 × 0.5
- I install a smart lock now, with my household holding the keys and settings.TEC +2 × 0.5 · DEC +2 × 0.5
- I ask the building team to wait for more testing, then manage one system for everyone.TEC −2 × 0.5 · DEC −2 × 0.5
The robot cleaning crew
At a town meeting, you see a proposal for street-cleaning robots. A private operator can start this month. The town could run its own fleet, but an early launch would need extra public funding.
- I vote to keep the public crews while the town runs its own trials.TEC −2 × 0.5 · COR −2 × 0.5
- I vote for the private operator to start this month.TEC +2 × 0.5 · COR +2 × 0.5
- I vote for the extra funding so the town can launch its own robot fleet now.TEC +2 × 0.5 · COR −2 × 0.5
- I vote to wait until private operators have proved the robots work in other towns.TEC −2 × 0.5 · COR +1 × 0.5
A few extra decades
A clinic offers you a place in a trial of a treatment intended to slow aging. It has published early results and has ethics approval. Most medical associations advise waiting for larger studies.
- I help fund an independent trial, but do not take the treatment yet.TEC −1 × 0.5 · HET +1 × 0.5
- I read the clinic's data and enroll in its monitored trial.TEC +2 × 0.5 · HET +2 × 0.5
- I leave the trials to researchers and wait for the medical associations to recommend the treatment.TEC −2 × 0.5 · HET −2 × 0.5
Rights for people you despise
In a faraway country, a population group seeks independence. You strongly oppose its ideology, but the movement is nonviolent. The government has begun executing its members.
- I campaign for sanctions to stop the executions and defend the group's right to promote its beliefs.PLU +2 × 0.5 · COS +2 × 0.5
- I condemn the executions and defend the group's rights, but oppose involving my country.PLU +2 × 0.5 · COS −2 × 0.5
- I campaign to stop the executions, but demand that the group abandon its ideology before it gets political rights.PLU −2 × 0.5 · COS +2 × 0.5
- I ask my government to stay out and say the group should be barred from political life.PLU −2 × 0.5 · COS −2 × 0.5
The border on television
A faraway country's leader goes on television to argue for annexing a neighboring territory. It belonged to that country a few generations ago, and its current regime is corrupt. Both claims are true.
- I share the speech in support of annexation. Restoring the old border and replacing a corrupt regime are enough for me.PLU −2 × 0.5 · DEC −2 × 0.5
- I campaign for a free, independently monitored vote in the territory, and accept either result.PLU +2 × 0.5 · DEC +2 × 0.5
- I petition for an international legal ruling on the claim before any border changes.PLU +2 × 0.5 · DEC −1 × 0.5

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Your politics.Your stat block.

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