                          Kingdom



This is a land and resources management game in which you

have been elected to a 5 year term of office as ruler of

your kingdom. Your country is about 30 miles by 70 miles

and has an area of 2,000 square miles, of which half is

useful for agriculture and mining. Your job is to decide

upon the budget for your country for each year. Your

currency is in Rods and each of your countrymen need to

have 100 Rods per annum spent on them to survive. You may

plant your land at a cost of between 10 and 15 Rods per

square mile and the crops, when sold, will fetch about

60 Rods per square mile. Crop yields, however, may be

adversely affected by pollution. You may also sell your

land for mining to foreign industry at about 100 Rods/

square mile. Foreign workers will join your country but

the industry will provide all of their needs. As industry

grows, so does pollution, although you can limit this by

spending money on controlling it. Pollution kills the

crops, kills your countrymen and also destroys  wildlife -

thus making the country less attractive to tourists who

are another valuable source of income. On average, tourists

spend 30 Rods each whenever they visit.

  There are several ways in which you can be thrown out of

office. If you allow your countrymen to starve when there

is money in the treasury, or if more than one hundred

people die in one year, or if your nation's population

drops by more than a thirds, then you will find yourself

withour a job. Another threat is posed by the foreign

workers in your country, who, when they outnumber your

nationals, are likely to revolt.

  Good luck.