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Learn how power is organized by trying to use it.

Constitutions are the rulebooks governments play by. Here you step into a scenario, make a few decisions, then replay the same crisis under different rules to see what the rules were quietly doing all along.

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1 · LIVE IT

You get a role, a goal, and three decisions. No reading assignment first.

2 · REWIND IT

Same you, same goal, different rulebook. Watch the danger move somewhere else.

3 · COMPARE IT

See how real countries have handled the same problem, without anyone telling you which is best.

Topics

One question at a time. Each takes a few minutes.

Who runs the government? live

And who can remove them? Prime ministers, presidents, and the stranger options.

Play the adventure →Compare all five answers →

One chamber or two? next

What a second legislative chamber is actually for.

How votes become seats planned

The same votes can produce very different legislatures.

Who checks the checkers? planned

Courts, rights, and how hard a constitution is to change.

Where power lives planned

Central, shared, or local.

Build your own someday

Combine your choices and see where they clash.