Social Contract
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Social Contract Simulator
Start in the state of nature, sign a contract, and watch a century of little cartoon people living under your choices.
Year: 0 / 100
Panel 1 shows a loose “state of nature” camp. As you hit “Play 100 years”, each new scene fades in, showing your people building a society—or tearing it apart.
1. Set your society’s clauses
Each slider is a line in your unwritten social contract. Push them hard left or right to see how both extremes can hurt the people living in your world.
Quick presets
Money & the state
Rights, policing, culture
Democracy & minority rights
Push everything to one extreme—hard left or hard right—and hit “Play 100 years” to see how quickly your smiling citizens end up protesting, fleeing, or living under emergency rule.
Philosophical alignment & constitutionality
Most aligned with Locke · Constitutionality: 78%
Rights-based liberal democracy
Taxes and safety nets are strong, speech is broadly free, and courts protect individuals. The state is strong enough to govern but weak enough that citizens can still replace it.
Locke: People form governments not to surrender their rights, but to secure them more effectively than they could alone.
Happiness & quality of life
80
Very rough blend of liberty, fairness, stability, and moderation.
Liberty experienced
80
How free daily life feels for real people, not just on paper.
Stability & order
72
Risk of coups, collapse, civil war, or chronic chaos.
Fairness & equality
65
Whether people feel the rules apply equally to rich and poor, majority and minority.
Rebellion risk
28
How tempting it is to tear up the contract rather than reform it.
Watch for: If taxes and regulation climb while speech and minority rights shrink, a well-meaning contract can harden into an authoritarian project—left or right.
Closest real-world echoes (very rough)
This is a toy model. It’s influenced by real-world patterns (like high happiness in Nordic-style democracies and lower scores in many authoritarian or failing states), but it isn’t claiming any one country or ideology is “best.”