Mr. President : Geopolitical World Simulator :

Lead a country. Choose your strategy.

Geopolitical World Simulator - NationShift is a single-player geopolitical simulator and strategy video game. Lead any of 208 countries on a living 3D Earth built from World Bank and Ember observations. Pass laws, balance a national budget, answer foreign leaders and decide when to fight. The United States, Brazil and India each start with different resources, budgets and pressures. Which country would you lead?

What you're seeing

1. War replay. Alpes-Maritimes changes hands, month by month, in Monaco's war with France.
2. Power-grid room. Pick a plant, place it on the map and see the output before you pay. Here, a solar farm in Japan.
3. "What if Hormuz closes?" Close a strait and see which imports, prices and power plants it would hit.
4. War room. Posture, supply and the tug of war over each front.
5. A leader's ultimatum. A hostile France sets a deadline: recognise its interests, propose talks or defy it, with a forecast for each choice.
6. "Why?" on the treasury. Every line that moved your cash this month.
7. Transport room. Sea lanes, pipelines and chokepoints behind every import.
8. Election night. Regions report one by one until a majority is declared.
9. Data maps. GDP per person replayed from 2000 across the globe.
10. Building. A committed plant: 2 GW, $1.52B, power in 12 months.
11. Start screen. Six suggested starts, any country, or one of the scenarios from our videos.

Know what to do next

• Taking office. Pick one of six suggested starts or search any country, read a short situation brief, then choose how much help you want.
• The Agenda. Needs attention, deadlines, opportunities and watch items, sorted by impact. Every row opens the screen where you act.
• "Why?" on key numbers. See what moved approval, the budget or prices this month without pausing the game.

Govern with real trade-offs

• Laws. Browse a catalogue of laws, forecast the vote before you propose and win over factions with concessions.
• Treasury. Draft taxes, spending and borrowing together, preview the years ahead and your credit rating, then apply the package.
• Power grid. Build plants and watch reserve margin, cost and emissions change before you commit.
• Research. 50 technologies across 8 domains, with labs and visible prerequisites.

A world that talks back

• Leader messages. Foreign governments write to you with offers, requests and warnings, and they remember how you answered.
• Data maps. Over 100 map layers, including GDP, inflation, energy mix and debt, with a timeline replay across the globe.
• War room. Plan fronts, set posture, order operations and negotiate peace terms. Every operation is paid for from your budget.
• Elections and opposition. Run a party, fight scandals and debates, then watch election night seat by seat.
• Crises with consequences. Unrest can bring down your government, and losing office lets you keep playing in opposition.

Play the scenarios from our videos

Five decision moments from our videos are built into the game. On the start screen, choose Scenarios… (or Load…) and pick a card. There's nothing to download or import:

• Canada · Mar 2027 · $58B treasury: the US holds Alberta and offers to end the war if you give it up. Accept or decline?
• Monaco · Feb 2026: your income-tax cut was just rejected 0 to 300. Can you get a law passed?
• Guatemala · Apr 2027: you hold Toledo, and Belize offers peace if you give it back. Accept, or keep it?
• Monaco · Mar 2027: Monaco holds Alpes-Maritimes, and France proposes peace if you give it back. Keep Nice, or sign?
• Belize · Apr 2027: Guatemala holds Toledo, and your peace offer is waiting. Hold out, or fight back?

Your own campaign is never replaced. Loading a scenario keeps your last save as a Backup card.

Would you fix the budget or fund research first? Try your approach, save your campaign and tell us the decision that changed it.

Free Mac and Android playtest

Apple silicon Mac and Android 8+ (64-bit ARM) · English · no payment required. This is an unfinished playtest: balance, AI behaviour and some screens are still in development. Saves from 0.42.0 and 0.43.0 continue.

The app is ad hoc signed, not Developer ID signed or notarized. The Android APK is sideloaded. Other platforms are not included yet. Country baselines come from real observations, but events, wars and outcomes are a game scenario, not a prediction.

Generative AI assisted code, text and selected UI illustrations; purchased assets are also used. Promotional narration uses ElevenLabs. Footage shows actual gameplay.