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Which is kind of funny to me because compared to games like CK2 that focus on a specific part of history Civ's application of a single set of unified mechanics to the whole of human history ends up creating a kind of state realism that is not without political implications of its own. Like, Civilization is a series in which the entirety of human history is described in terms of a competition with explicit winners and losers between entities with strictly defined borders and policies enforced within them, i.e. nation-states. It's not a very big leap into nationalism and it's arguably a testament to the durability and strength of democratic and egalitarian cultural norms that the series has evolved the way it has instead of becoming something more actively right-wing.
Isn't Hearts of Iron IV the game of choice for people who want to explore victorious virtual Third Reichs?
Only the noobs conquer the world with the third reich, the experts use decolonialist South Africa to take over the world.