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Pandemic: The Virus Outbreak

Are you good enough to make your country overcome the pandemic? Try it out! You're the president of a new country, In 1/1/2020 a pandemic started and you have to manage the country balancing 8 constantly chaging statistics using isolation measures or budget investments.

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John's Project
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John's Project
Release
June 4, 2020
6 years and 60 days ago
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A government simulation game in which you're the president and have to strategically plan what actions to take to balance the statistics of your country during a pandemic.

Are you good enough to make your country overcome the pandemic? Try it out!

Want to know what happens if there are no reactions to a pandemic? Try it out!


You're the president of a new country, that is now part of the earth, in 1/1/2020 a pandemic has started.

You have to balance 8 statistics: Infections, Deaths, Recovered, Economic growth, Unemployment, Reputation, Health system workload and vaccine development.

There are 2 main action types you can take to balance the statistics

Isolation measures
- Force masks
- Close country borders
- Close schools
- Stop tourism
- Close stores
- Stop industry
- Stop events

Budget Investments
- Vaccine research
- Health System capacity
- Economy propaganda
- Virus propaganda
- Aid package for businesses
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