One world. Every government in it is a player.
Mine your region, trade on a global market, found a party, win a seat, and pass the law that closes your borders. Everything of value in the economy was produced by somebody.
Create a citizenEnergy, not attention
A check-in is two minutes. Energy recovers over about ten game hours and your health decides how fast — so hazardous work trades recovery for wage.
A real economy
No country has every industrial input. Extraction, manufacture, tariffs and scarcity make trade and migration worth arguing about.
Politics with teeth
Elected parliaments pass typed laws that actually change the rules: who may cross your border, what industry pays, who may settle.