I'm new to Atlasia, so I really don't know what is going on. Can you help me? lol
It is a simulated political environment, where you run for office, vote for candidates. There is a limited game moderator system that attempts to enable policy making once in office though it sometimes doesn't work or gets ignored when it does, which detracts from the game.
You can also do polling, run/found a newspaper or political pressure/advocacy group, so there is some degree of civic activism outside of running for/holding office.
There are two levels of Government:
Federal: Two House legislature (People's House and Regional Senate), President, Supreme Court (five Members). The People's House is 9 members elected At-Large and the Senate is six members, elected by the regions.
Regional: Two Senators (in the Regional Senate) each, a Governor, State legislatures, and Regional Associate Justices who also serve on the national Supreme Court. There are 3 Regions, Lincoln (north), Fremont (West) and the South (We don't have a name, because like with everything involving the South, there is either a bad history, drama or both).
We have two major party's:
Federalist - Right of Center. We have three major factions and three caucuses that try and represent them, though getting people to participate in them has been difficult at best. They are:
The Main Street Partnership - Moderates, center-right types and and even a few center left and liberals.
The Coolidge Society - Social Conservatives, Conservatarians, and some Libertarians
Non-Interventionist - Libertarians, centrists and people of all ideological stripes who oppose foreign intervention.
There is of course some overlap between all of those groups.
Labor - The major leftist party in the game. Generally split between two groups on foreign policies and a divide between what in real life would be the Clinton-Sanders divide. But I am not an expert on that side so I will just leave it at that.