In addition to an economy emulator, there might be an activity that incorporates real time data from the real world. What is happening with water supplies, crop land, fisheries, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and so on? The rules of the game could be along the lines of the World Game, as invented by Buckminster Fuller, "to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone."
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Another great activity would be SimWorld with the game linked to actual data of the world's resources.
In addition to an economy emulator, there might be an activity that incorporates real time data from the real world. What is happening with water supplies, crop land, fisheries, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and so on? The rules of the game could be along the lines of the World Game, as invented by Buckminster Fuller, "to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone."