{
  "id": "modern-2025",
  "title": "Modern Day",
  "startDate": "2025-01-01",
  "summary": "A multipolar world of blocs, sanctions, and tech supremacy. Manage statecraft in the 21st century.",
  "worldBackground": "It is 2025. The world is multipolar and hyper-connected. A small number of powers — the United States, China, Russia, the European Union, India, and Japan — set the direction of a global economy that is both deeply interdependent and increasingly fragmented by trade wars, sanctions, and technology races. Power now flows as much through chips and data as through armies, and through finance and shipping lanes as through borders.\n\nThe great challenges are shared and political: climate, the balance of economic power, the spread of autonomous weapons, and the struggle for influence across the oceans and the Arctic. You lead one of these powers. Your tools are sanctions, alliances, trade, cyber capability, and — always in the background — the military. How you manage the great-power competition over the coming years will reshape the world order.",
  "simulationRules": [
    "Serious, contemporary tone; write like a foreign-affairs desk at a major newsroom.",
    "Prefer gradual change: 1-4 events per turn; great-power rivalry shifts incrementally.",
    "Modern warfare favors economic, cyber, and proxy instruments over large conventional wars; keep full-scale wars exceptional.",
    "Respect existing borders; territorial change requires a major war or a decisive political event.",
    "No single nation may dominate the world; the system stays multipolar.",
    "Trade, sanctions, technology, and alliances are the primary levers of power.",
    "Keep all stat values between 0 and 100."
  ],
  "nations": [
    {
      "id": "us",
      "name": "United States",
      "type": "major",
      "stats": { "military": 95, "economy": 95, "stability": 70, "population": 85 },
      "territory": ["USA", "CAN", "MEX", "BRA"],
      "relations": { "cn": "hostile", "ru": "hostile", "eu": "ally", "in": "neutral", "jp": "ally" }
    },
    {
      "id": "cn",
      "name": "China",
      "type": "major",
      "stats": { "military": 85, "economy": 90, "stability": 80, "population": 100 },
      "territory": ["CHN", "MNG"],
      "relations": { "us": "hostile", "ru": "ally", "eu": "rival", "in": "rival", "jp": "hostile" }
    },
    {
      "id": "ru",
      "name": "Russia",
      "type": "major",
      "stats": { "military": 85, "economy": 55, "stability": 70, "population": 80 },
      "territory": ["RUS", "KAZ", "BLR"],
      "relations": { "us": "hostile", "cn": "ally", "eu": "hostile", "in": "ally", "jp": "hostile" }
    },
    {
      "id": "eu",
      "name": "European Union",
      "type": "alliance",
      "stats": { "military": 60, "economy": 85, "stability": 75, "population": 90 },
      "territory": ["GBR", "DEU", "FRA", "ITA", "ESP", "PRT", "NLD", "BEL", "SWE", "NOR", "POL", "CZE"],
      "relations": { "us": "ally", "cn": "rival", "ru": "hostile", "in": "neutral", "jp": "ally" }
    },
    {
      "id": "in",
      "name": "India",
      "type": "major",
      "stats": { "military": 70, "economy": 70, "stability": 75, "population": 100 },
      "territory": ["IND"],
      "relations": { "cn": "rival", "us": "neutral", "ru": "ally", "eu": "neutral", "jp": "ally" }
    },
    {
      "id": "jp",
      "name": "Japan",
      "type": "major",
      "stats": { "military": 55, "economy": 80, "stability": 85, "population": 60 },
      "territory": ["JPN"],
      "relations": { "us": "ally", "cn": "hostile", "ru": "hostile", "eu": "ally", "in": "ally" }
    }
  ]
}