About
🏛️ The Regime: Rise to Power
A geopolitical grand-strategy simulation where you rule a single nation on the real world map. Command domestic politics, economy, diplomacy and war to rise as the world's leading power.
- 🌍 174 real nations — pick the country you rule directly on the globe
- 🏛️ Politics & factions — manage the demands and polarization of the military, business, populace, bureaucracy and religious factions
- 🤝 Living AI diplomacy — trade, alliances, non-aggression, spheres of influence and betrayal, driven by each nation's personality (expansionist, mercantile, hegemonic, defensive, opportunist)
- ⚔️ War & coercive diplomacy — bend rivals without war through military and economic leverage, or push the front and break them
- 🛡️ Anti-hegemony coalitions — grow too strong and the world forms a balancing coalition against you, ideology aside
- 📊 Deep simulation of military tech, economy, stability and legitimacy · 15-language support
🎮 Demo — play the 2025 scenario for 12 years. All eras (1953 Cold War → 2045 near future) and unlimited campaigns await in the full version.
Game Systems
How to Play
You pick one of ~174 real nations and lead it. The goal is to reach #1 in the world by 2050 — top the eight power rankings and you earn the title "The First Power". (The game is called The Regime; The First Power is the top spot you’re aiming for.) The 2025 demo gives you 12 years to play.
The fun is in how everything connects. Raise taxes and the treasury fills, but business cools on you and growth slows. Grow too strong and the neighbours get nervous and band together to check you. Politics, economy, military and diplomacy all feed into each other, quarter by quarter.
You don’t need to memorize any of it. Whenever you’re unsure, just ask the AI Chief of Staff — it reads your nation as it stands and points you to what to do next. Browse the systems below to see how each one works, and the advice will click into place.
