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Tiny Nation: Serious Power

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LENGTH

15 Minutes

GRADES

5
6
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8

CAPABILITIES

ES
Spanish Language Support
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Description

Tiny Nation: Serious Power is an educational strategy game where players guide a tiny civilization through the evolution of government. Starting with tyranny, they collect Political Units, respond to crises, and build institutions while learning how different systems balance power, rights, participation, and the rule of law. Inspired by Aristotle, Magna Carta, Athenian democracy, and the U.S. Constitution, every gameplay mechanic teaches a core civics concept.

Vocabulary Words

Autocracy
Authoritarianism
Constitutional Democracy
Direct Democracy
Federal System
Limited Government
Representative Democracy (Republic)
Unitary System

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Forms of Government. Suitable for Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.

Main Concepts

Constitutional democracy protects liberty and representative government more effectively than systems that concentrate power without legal limits.
The founders chose a republic rather than a direct democracy because they believed a representative government could better protect liberty and control the dangers of factions.
Analyze how totalitarian regimes such as communist and fascist governments restrict political participation, control information, and suppress individual rights.
Compare how power is distributed geographically in unitary, confederal, and federal systems.
Political systems vary in the extent to which citizens can participate in political decision-making.
Authoritarian governments restrict political participation and concentrate decision-making power.
Constitutional governments limit the power of government through laws and written constitutions.
In representative democracies, citizens elect officials to make laws and policy decisions on their behalf.
In direct democracies, citizens participate directly in lawmaking and public decision-making.
Democracies distribute political power broadly among citizens or their elected representatives.
Autocracies concentrate political power in the hands of a single ruler or small elite group.
Governments can be categorized based on how political power is distributed and exercised.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

In an ancient Greek direct democracy, every citizen voted on every single law. Why did the American Founders decide that a representative republic would be more practical and safer for a large, growing nation? What stops a constitutional democracy from turning into an autocracy or a dictatorship? Why are written laws and constitutional limits so vital?

After the Game

The Founders worried that small groups with special interests ("factions") could ruin a democracy. How does elected representation help protect the rights of minority groups against the rule of an angry majority?

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