A History of Government Simulator
Prologue
Government Simulator was a small scale role playing experiment initialized by a user on BAND that now goes by the name Epik Berm. Much of the history of the experiments have been lost to time with the exception of a few pieces of art.
The following is an excerpt from the creator of the simulation posted several years after the project fell apart and was thought to be disbanded. The excerpt was posted Feb. 6, 2024.
The Founders Final Words
“Hey world
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Mr. Leader here, or whatever name I used to go after, lol.
I doubt anybody will ever read this, but, I just have been taking the time lately to go back to a lot of my roots, the thing that make me into the dude I am today.
I randomly decided to look here because I saw some old documents in my drive and, whoo'eh, this place is exactly how I remember it. One of my brightest ideas I ever had, turned sour and burned to the ground because of...
Well, to set the stage really quick, when I made this band, I was not yet even an adult, and had a middle school understanding of politics; I was literally a starry-eyed teenager who liked strategy games and thus wanted to replicate what much I knew of them.
I had no idea what an economy plan was, and ideology to me was in Sid Meier and Hearts of Iron Terms: democracy, communism, and fascism.
When I made this group, my target goal was, generally other teenagers- or really nobody, since I didn't grasp how big the internet was and had never really done video game stuff with adults before, so I didn't know they could like.. yknow.. be on the internet.
Then came along the monarchists, with their big smart vocabulary and actual understanding of politics and the sorts; a lot of people who, reading back, I now realize were 20 FECKIN YEARS older than me rolled out the royal carpet and expected me, a barely competent brick wall to understand their mumbo jumbo, when I was trying to put out a rather-- well I think this was pretty primitive- It was cool and glittery, but SUPER primitive.
I also had a huge fucking complex lmaoo; not really of power or anything but, like, Jesus I did not understand jokes and everything I wrote always came off so gritty and stern, and I could never understand why people were so mean to me; please do accept my late apology of being a completely socially inept teenager all those years ago, lmao, I've done a lot of improving--
especially right after this experience. I like to establish this as probably being the birthplace of my modern stalwart self, having first-handed been, from my perspective, thoroughly cyberbullied here. I literally cried for nights and screamed in rage, thinking nothing about this and how everything was going wrong and bla. This was a passion project, and it still stings to this day that I had to smother it to death because I had no idea how else to handle a raving intangible digital band of people who didn't share my mindset (I mean who could really even understand me at all based on how I talked LOL I was so contradictory because I had 13 different thoughts going through my head and fingers)
So in conclusion, I just wanted to.. leave this as a passing piece, to those of you who remain, who might possibly see this for some reason, or not, that I thank and appreciate absolutely all of you for being apart of this all those years ago. You all really defined my future, and a lot of your names are still fresh in my head; I have a lot of your art too, lmao, and other tokens of the time we had together.
Please, if any of you see this, I go by the name of Epik Berm nowadays, contact me if you can, let's catch up and stuff!
I might also make another system like this, I miss it; but now I know what I'm doing, lol.
Anuways, thanx for reading, and for the fun time we had. God bless you all!!!!!!!
-EB”
