FACEBOOK has this great application called “Nations,” which lets you create a nation and solve issues that come up every day. Your nation is then graded on certain characteristics, such as Economic Freedom, Crime Control, and Health.
This morning, one of the issues was:
Two major automotive companies are going out of business, and come to you for a government bailout. You:
The options were something along the lines of bailing the company out or letting the free market decide its fate — and of course, I chose the free market approach, and I got this response:
Two major automotive manufacturers have gone out of business in Acrylic Paint when Preston Mui refuses to bail them out with government funds. Two new auto groups have bought the old manufacturing plants though, and are producing new automobiles in Acrylic Paint which seem to be more in line with what citizens want, at a price which people can afford.
Nations has the right idea.
#1 by The Invisible Hand on May 16th, 2009
Oh man, I haven’t played this game in so long haha…I got addicted to Geo Challenge instead.