My first thoughts are: Add some sort of story or goals. Encourage business starting, innovation trying to get more futuristic or get to space or something? But

My first thoughts are: Add some sort of story or goals. Encourage business starting, innovation trying to get more futuristic or get to space or something? But to Achieve these goals, the player has to pass the right laws, manage their economy, ensure sufficient funding & taxes, etc. The core game loop being passing laws and seeing how it impacts behavior, then repeat to achieve a goal Could be an interesting colony sim or something