Country simulator games: run a nation with other players

A country simulator puts you inside a state and lets you push it somewhere. Some games hand you the whole country on day one; the ones on this page make you share it with thousands of other people, and most of the game is talking to them.

Last checked: November 8, 2026

What counts as a country simulator

People use the words country simulator, nation simulator and political sim for the same idea: a game where the state itself is the thing you play with. You set taxes, write laws, pick ministers, sign alliances or fall out with neighbours. War can be part of it, but in a political strategy game a vote is often worth more than an army.

In single player games of this kind you are the whole government. In the online ones on this page, power is held by players: someone wins the election, someone sits in parliament, someone runs the economy office. You rarely start at the top. You start as a citizen and work your way up, and the people around you decide whether you get there.

What to look for before you join

• Who actually holds power. In some games you alone are the government; in others the leader is whoever wins the vote. A nation simulator feels very different when the president is someone you can message.
• How often power changes hands. Elections every few days keep a country moving; elections every few months make it slow. Look for how long a term lasts and who can stand as a candidate.
• Whether laws do something. A good political sim ties laws to the rest of the game: taxes change wages, a border rule changes who can work where, an alliance changes a war.
• Room for parties and press. Parties, articles and comments are where politics happens between elections. If a game has no way to argue in public, it is mostly a management game.
• Where you can play. These games are played in short visits through the day, so a browser version and a phone app make a real difference.

Political strategy games you can play online

From the full list, these are the games whose own pages talk about politics or about running a country. Genre, platforms and price are as each official site or store page says.

Each row comes from the game's official site and, where it has one, its Steam, App Store or Google Play page, checked on the date above. Where a site told us nothing, the row says so. If something is wrong or out of date, write to us and we will fix it.

Checked on October 27, 2026, as their sites did not open for us this time: eRepublik, Rival Regions.

How Hegemonia does it

In Hegemonia the map is the real world, split into hundreds of regions, and a region can belong to a state, each led by a player. A state's leader and its parliament are elected every 7 days. Parties put forward the leader candidates, and parliament seats are shared out by party votes.

Parliament writes the laws. Taxes, treasury transfers and alliances are fast laws the leader or the minister in charge can approve alone; other laws go to a 24 hour vote. The leader appoints ministers for the interior, foreign affairs, education and the economy, and a state can even become a dictatorship with an 80% vote in parliament.

Between elections you work in a factory, earn CASH, trade on the market, apply for a visa or citizenship in another state, and publish articles that other players read and answer. You can join a party or found your own.

Where to play Hegemonia

Hegemonia runs in your browser with nothing to install, and you can also get it from Google Play, the App Store and Microsoft Store. One account works on every device.

• Play free in your browser
• About Hegemonia

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