Jed wrote a long thing about RPGs, and I was skimming it, and thinking about what I like about gaming, and I realized that most of my favorite games are about managing scarce resources + building a better world (Civilization, Polytopia, Terraforming Mars, etc.)…
…and um, that’s a lot of what I like about being an elected official. It’s the same process / job, though generally with fewer bowls of potato chips on the table.