R13: Feeding the ideological engine in Democratic Socialism Simulator

Molleindustria is a maker of (usually) free, short-form, online games. Many of their games comment on current events, politics, and ideologies. You can see a 7-minute review of some of their past games here (not required to complete this reading assignment): https://vimeo.com/166296194

Molleindustria's latest game, Democratic Socialism Simulator, was just released at the end of last week. As part of the game's release notes, the developer surprisingly shared a spreadsheet in which they've authored much of the game's textual content.

Spreadsheets are a very common tool for defining and maintaining game data. A spreadsheet created in a tool like Microsoft Excel can easily be exported in the CSV (comma-separated values) format -- a simple lines-of-text format that can be quickly loaded in most game engines. Some developers opt to use cloud-based spreadsheets (e.g. Google Sheets) so that their game prototypes can automatically pull in the most up to date data each time a new core gameplay session starts (dramatically speeding up some game balancing activities). Here is one such story (optional reading): https://medium.com/@urpi/spreadsheet-tools-in-game-design-57511eac68c

Read through the release notes for Democratic Socialism Simulator (DSS) here: https://www.molleindustria.org/blog/democratic-socialism-simulator-release-notes/ (noting the giant link to a Google Sheet in the middle)