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Capitalism, Hey!: BARiTONES
[ Everything fades to black...and you awaken in a run-down one-room shack, with the distinct feeling that the people around you are your family, if you didn't already have such a bond with them.
You're wearing raggedy versions of your uniform, and a newspaper informs you that you are currently in %COUNTRYNAME%, in the year %CONTEMPORARY%. The newspaper is otherwise actually fairly unhelpful, aside from something detailing a recent high-profile murder having been solved: despite confusion on the part of the authorities conducting the initial investigation, it turns out the victim had been tragically murdered via gun in the knife.
What do you do? ]
You're wearing raggedy versions of your uniform, and a newspaper informs you that you are currently in %COUNTRYNAME%, in the year %CONTEMPORARY%. The newspaper is otherwise actually fairly unhelpful, aside from something detailing a recent high-profile murder having been solved: despite confusion on the part of the authorities conducting the initial investigation, it turns out the victim had been tragically murdered via gun in the knife.
What do you do? ]

YEAR 1
SET YOUR BUDGET.
Housing - 1000
Food - 900
Medicine - 200
Clothing - 300
LUXURIES: NO RECOMMENDATIONS
Alcohol (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Other Unspecified Drugs (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
FANCY Clothes (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Books (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
One Eighth Of An Automobile (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Nice Furniture (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
CURRENT JOB - COAL MINER. YEARLY INCOME - 1800 MONIES.
Will you pay taxes this year?
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. . .Okay, I'm not working in any stupid mine.
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YEAR 2
SET YOUR BUDGET.
Housing - 1000
Food - 900
Medicine - 200
Clothing - 300
HAPPINESS: 120
Alcohol (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Other Unspecified Drugs (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
FANCY Clothes (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 3
Books (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
One Eighth Of An Automobile (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Nice Furniture (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) - 3
CURRENT JOB - COAL MINER. YEARLY INCOME - 1800 MONIES + 200 REMAINING.
Will you pay taxes this year?
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EVENT 1
As a result, you all become horribly emaciated as you use up the last of your food stores. You're barely eating enough to make it through the week, and at almost all times the pangs of hunger strike you almost unbearably.
Your family is STARVING.
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EVENT 2
You are UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR MURDER.
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YEAR 3
SET YOUR BUDGET.
Housing - 1000
Food - 900
Medicine - 200
Clothing - 300
HAPPINESS: 120
LUXURIES: 0
Alcohol (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Other Unspecified Drugs (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
FANCY Clothes (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Books (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
One Eighth Of An Automobile (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Nice Furniture (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
CURRENT JOB - PANHANDLER. YEARLY INCOME - 500 MONIES.
NEW CRIME ABILITY UNLOCKED: MURDER - Now...you've lost it. You know you can kill. You can take another unit's entire yearly income with this.
But, you know, they die.
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EVENT 1
At least you still have that happiness. . .
EVENT 2
Well, what the fuck.
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YEAR 4
SET YOUR BUDGET.
Housing - You're in jail.
Food - 900
Medicine - 200
Clothing - 300
HAPPINESS: 120
Alcohol (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Other Unspecified Drugs (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
FANCY Clothes (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Books (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
One Eighth Of An Automobile (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Nice Furniture (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
CURRENT JOB - PRISONER. YEARLY INCOME - 0 MONIES.
NEW CRIME ABILITY UNLOCKED: RIOT - This enables you to SERIOUSLY HARM OR KILL a random number of units (up to 5, and you can specify which 5 you'd like to get hit), but you will escape jail and receive 300 happiness in addition to a large amount of luxuries.
No taxes this year.
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EVENT 1
That's about it.
EVENT 2
You COULD work together to RIOT, get 7 units seriously harmed or injured combined, and both make out with 400 happiness and a large amount of luxuries.
If you BETRAY them, more units will die.
I mean, you can only win, here.
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EVENT 3
Aw shit.
TURN IN
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THE END.
You put your trust in the family imprisoned alongside you, and together you charge into the heart of darkness. And you come out the other side in one piece.
You clash with a worker's revolt, and the military arrives to stop you, but you refuse to let yourself die. Not here, not now.
What the prisoners do next is up to them -- you and your stalwart allied family part ways, with each of you off to live new lives and have new adventures away from this place. You recover from your sicknesses and wounds, though the scars never quite fade.
Proceed to ENDGAME.