Sheeple - the game of extreme politics (and geology)
Tectonic Geopolitical History of Sheepledom
In the beginning, the landscape of Sheepledom was relatively featureless. Sure, it was cold in the upper part, hot in the lower part, wet to the left, and dry to the right. Rivers flowed. There were some hills, but there were no mountains or seas to impede travel. Still, some discontented sheeple thought a highway between left and right would help organize things.
For a while, the Spectrum Highway, as it was called, did organize sheeple between the swamps on the left and the deserts on the right. Most of the sheeple from the upper part did not think this was too useful, but they seemed happy to keep to themselves. The lower sheeple, however, were not happy at all. They were not happy to keep to themselves; they loved to tell each other what to do. The traditionalists among the lower sheeple thought they should connect to the new highway on its right end; the progressives thought the left end.
Eventually, some very un-sheeple like leaders emerged in the lower part. They argued and fought about where the highway should go. A few of the upper-left sheeple came to the lower part and suggested environmental impact studies. They were enslaved. The end result was a huge environmental impact.
Somehow, the psychic energy of this conflict pushed the land of the lower sheeple apart. The tectonic plates underlying Sheepledom started to rotate around Centerville. The Statist Faults developed below Centerville through the land of the lower sheeple, causing massive earthquakes and a rift valley. Above Centerville, what used to be called the Libertarian Hills started to lift into mountains. The upper area sheeple became so deeply divided by these mountains that they mapped a new Cultural Divide.
The eventual effect in the lower area appeared even greater; the rift valley cause by the Statist Faults widened, deepened, and filled with water to become the Totalitarian Gulf we see today. The Spectrum Highway was finally finished, with those escaping to the rocky left side of the Gulf getting an extension called the red section, and those on the sandy right shore getting the violet section.
The highway now runs from Pol Pot Point on the left to Bin Laden Beach on the right, and serves all of Sheepledom except the upper part. Most of the sheeple there still did not care, but some thought they at least needed a way to tell their friends on the other side of the Cultural Divide (which now separated the green and blue regions) that they were not really that far apart. They finally discovered the two dimensional Nolan Chart (represented by the grid printed on your gameboard) that, while still oversimplified, helped organize their thinking much better than the one dimensional Spectrum Highway ever could.
Map/gameboard available at:
http://www.sheepledom.org/
