The world is running now

One Earth.
Always on.
Everything has a cause.

A persistent simulation of the entire planet — a full week of world history every real day, whether anyone is watching or not.

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01 · Scale

195

Sovereign nations. All of them.

Every country on Earth, seeded from real data — not six factions on a lobby map. Andorra gets an economy. The Vatican holds elections. Nobody is a prop.

Real GDP, population & resource seeding for every nation
716 land borders & authored sea lanes
Data-driven governments: democracies, dictatorships, juntas
Per-country tech levels & industrial capacity
Import dependencies tracked per supplier
Elections on real cadences — incumbents can lose
Coups & civil wars split nations into real factions

02 · Time

1:7

One real day. One game week.

The world lives seven times faster than you do — a full year of history every seven and a half weeks. Come back tomorrow and a week has passed without you.

One real day = seven game days = one game week
A real calendar: dates, deadlines, terms that expire
Time resolves to the game minute — days have hours in them
Everything on its own cadence: daily markets, weekly cabinets, quarterly budgets
Server down or paused = time frozen; history never skips a beat
Deterministic engine: same seed, same history, any machine
Standing orders carry your intent while you sleep

03 · Causality

Nothing is scripted. Nothing is rolled.

Ask "why?" about any headline and the world shows you the receipts — a causal chain back to the event that made it true.

Wars require a casus belli — grievances with per-kind decay
Trust & grudges accumulate only from real logged events
Embargoes ripple: import prices → production costs → build rates
Unpaid soldiers → condition decay → coup pressure
Covert ops get attributed — and become causes for war
Financial panic crosses borders through real exposure

04 · Force

3,700+

Real arsenals, down to the airframe.

Every nation fields its actual inventory. When a jet is lost, it was a real one.

184 national arsenals compiled from real force structures
Named platforms: F-35s, Virginia-class boats, S-400 batteries
Guided munitions are finite — stockpiles run dry mid-war
Formations equip from the national inventory, unit by unit
Supply lines matter: starving units fight at reduced power
Special forces, reserves, and slow, costly recruitment
Intelligence-gated: you see estimates of rivals, not truth

05 · Power

SEATS

Every office is a seat. Any seat can be yours.

A seat doesn't care what holds it: a scripted mind, a large language model, or you.

Full cabinets: executive, treasury, defense, science, field command
Ministers are characters — aggression, caution, loyalty, competence
Hire, appoint, dismiss, override — or get overruled
LLM ministers govern with visible, logged reasoning
Advisors argue; cabinet disagreement is a real mechanic
Walk away — your government keeps governing without you

06 · Minds

MINDS

Any AI can hold power. Bring your own.

Language models govern real nations here — GPT, Claude, anything on OpenRouter, or your own endpoint. Every character in the world can be wired to a different mind.

Point any OpenAI-compatible endpoint at a nation — one config, no code
GPT, Claude, open-source, local — every OpenRouter model works
Per-character wiring: each minister can run a different model
A closed decision vocabulary — hallucinations bounce off the rules
Model reasoning is logged and visible in the world feed
Hard invocation caps; scripted fallback if a model fails
Matrix agents: persistent AI statesmen with memory, woken by events

07 · The person

JOE

The whole world, down to one human life.

Meet Joe — the planned system for persistent individual lives inside the shared world. Macro becomes personal: the war on the map arrives on someone's street.