>>2134387
ah yes, nothing screams memegame like 20,000 sorbian artisans in cootbus churning out artisanal clipper ships in the marshy floodplains of lower lusatia, 300 kilometers from the nearest ocean. every morning jan and sławomir roll out of their shoelace hovels, sit by the spree river, and handcraft three-deck ocean-going vessels with nothing but twine and leftover manure, which are then instantly teleported to liverpool’s docks because the sky vending machine decreed britain needed them yesterday...
the game cheerfully ignores the fact that not a single tree in the area is large enough for a mast, and that the local carpentry guilds have never seen a ship longer than a bathtub. logistics, literacy, material shortages, and physics? irrelevant. every clipper magically arrives fully crewed, fully provisioned, and with a navigation system that somehow knows the wind patterns of the atlantic decades in advance. even better, cootbus pops continue their normal daily lives of tending tiny vegetable gardens behind cramped brick hovels, mending worn-out shoes for the local aristocrats, grumbling about the latest prussian tax edicts and composing minor poetry about the floods of sprjewja while simultaneously fueling the global trade economy with zero infrastructure investment, because memegame2 firmly believes that a dozen shoelace-mending blokes arguing by the spree all morning is all a nation needs to dominate global commerce, not a book that's called "how to build a sailboat 101"

meanwhile, the politics are just as trash as the economy. forgor riots in the streets, patronage networks, or sussy backroom deals.. in memegame2, political life is basically pops pulling a political banner and instantly unlocking massive ideological grindset. one week your peasants are docile monarchist farmers doing the goofy ahh lightskin stare while tending wheat, next week they all wake up locked in as Jacobin sigma males after watching a tiktok clip that yaps about karl marx being lowkey goated. whole swathes of prussian unc flipping ideology overnight like “ja blud, it’s communism o’clock.”
and reforms? another common memegame2 L. you don’t pass laws by decree, parliament, or movements, no, you must wait until exactly 7.8% consciousness hits the sigma threshold and suddenly every doctor in your country collectively invents healthcare overnight like they just downloaded a DLC.
liberals don’t own newspapers, conservatives don’t run the officer corps, shoelace factory workers don’t form unions, nah, politics is just a deck of Pokémon cards with rigid stances on tariffs, military, and reforms. the liberal Pikachu card will gleefully tank your rifle production mid-WWI because “factory subsidies ain't bussin fr”
your pops, meanwhile, cheerfully treat ideology like a Spotify playlist shuffle. communists this election, fascists the next, monarchy restored the year after. and somehow it all happens peacefully, without riots, coups, assassinations, or even a single angry shoemaker lobbing a cobblestone at parliament
social change isn’t driven by poverty, struggle, or hunger. it’s driven by invisible "who put this here" ahh thresholds. peasants don’t crash out because there kids are starving, they do so because a tooltip says “+0.02 militancy per month due to kaiser gyatthelm the gooner aura loss”