Gulf of Trump

An alternate-history grand strategy game where a language model is the game master. Pick a turning point of the 20th or 21st century, pick any country, write your government's orders in plain language, and the model plays the rest of the world — on your own ChatGPT plan, through OpenAI's official Sign in with ChatGPT. No tokens to buy, no subscription to the game.

It is a free, open-source take on the idea behind Pax Historia, which is a good game with a paywall in front of every turn.

Beta. A sandbox: no goals and no victory screen — your country, your plan. Nine dates; about 2,700 provinces with terrain, people, resources and railways, and fronts that run between the towns each side holds; an army counted piece by piece; an economy for every country with trade, sanctions and trade deals; seven directions of research racing history; eight ministries led by the real ministers of the day; parties, a parliament and the street; letters to any government, summits and sessions of the UN. Single player.

Ministers of the day in eight ministries, with interests of their own, who report after each turn	Politics at home: parties, elections, sittings where you speak for your bills	An economy that keeps its books, in money of the day
An army counted piece by piece, with its armies and fronts	Research racing history in seven directions	Other countries as you know them: wars, pacts and, under fog of war, estimates

The world as any country sees it on the diplomatic map	Seven maps of about 2,700 provinces

Any turn can be shared as a picture, and the whole game replayed as a timelapse video of its borders:

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Scenarios

Date	Scenario	Start
28 June 1914	The Shot at Sarajevo	The Archduke is dead; the July Crisis has not started. The war can still be avoided.
30 January 1933	Hitler Comes to Power	Hindenburg makes Hitler Chancellor in the depth of the Depression; Japan holds Manchukuo and eyes Jehol, Bolivia and Paraguay fight over the Chaco, Mao's soviet holds out in Jiangxi.
1 September 1939	The Invasion of Poland	The Wehrmacht crosses the border; London and Paris have two days to decide.
25 June 1950	The Korean War	North Korean tanks cross the 38th parallel; the Soviets boycott the Security Council, Mao eyes Taiwan, France fights in Indochina.
4 October 1957	The Space Race	Sputnik is in orbit and America is caught off guard; France fights in Algeria, Turkey's army stands on Syria's border. Every country's rocket programme races history's feats, from the first satellite to the Moon.
2 August 1964	The Gulf of Tonkin	Torpedo boats attack the USS Maddox. The Viet Cong hold half the South's countryside, the Pathet Lao the Plain of Jars; Sukarno confronts Malaysia.
6 October 1973	The Yom Kippur War	Egypt crosses the Suez Canal and Syria storms the Golan; the oil embargo is days away, Nixon sinks in Watergate, Portugal fights three colonial wars.
25 December 1979	Into Afghanistan	Soviet troops cross the Amu Darya; Khomeini holds the American hostages, Vietnam occupies Cambodia, Rhodesia's ceasefire is three days away.
19 August 1991	The August Coup	Gorbachev is isolated in Foros, tanks are in Moscow; the USSR still exists. Every Soviet and Yugoslav republic is playable.
24 March 1999	NATO Bombs Yugoslavia	Rambouillet has failed; Allied Force begins without a UN mandate. Play Milošević, NATO, Russia, the KLA or Đukanović's Montenegro.
16 January 2014	Euromaidan	The eighth week of the Maidan; parliament has passed the "dictatorship laws". Yanukovych's police are loyal, the army wavers, the oligarchs wait.
24 February 2022

Every country on the map is playable, plus the republics that hold no land yet (play Yeltsin's Russia or Kravchuk's Ukraine inside the USSR and break out). Interface in Russian, Ukrainian and English; the game master writes in the language you play in.

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