I bought it. I couldn't get it to run on Linux so I spent a couple of hours on Valgrind figuring out what went wrong where. I finally gave up and figured out t

I bought it. I couldn't get it to run on Linux so I spent a couple of hours on Valgrind figuring out what went wrong where. I finally gave up and figured out that all copies on Steam's servers were bad (they had some AU/NZ server issues back then I believe), so with some hackery I downloaded a previous version. I played it. It was great. But as the other commenter mentioned, it is pretty shallow. It's easy to "beat the game". The challenges come from one self though. For example, to win the game in any country except US, the easiest course is to direct that country to be a socialist utopia. One of the challenges I set myself to win was to make it a religio-anarchy type of of government. That's when the game gets fun IMO. Also, US is challenging no matter what your plans are.