Building my perfect dictatorship in 'Democracy 3: Africa'

Positech’s Democracy game series has always offered a grotesque caricature of politics. I’ve put tens of hours into Democracy 3 (D3) in recent years, and the lesson I’ve learned is that what starts as a nuanced game about balancing policies to keep a society happy more often than not devolves into a hilariously entertaining social-engineering simulator. This week, the one-man British developer released a standalone expansion to the game titled Democracy 3: Africa (D3:A), and the changes it brings add a whole new dimension to the series.