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<span class="mu-s">Winning Conditions and Stakes</span>
You are playing against a previous set of players, and a current set of players. Another set of future players might be playing against you, based on your choices.
You have <span class="mu-s">10</span> units of <span class="mu-s">Apparatus Body Points</span>. If this number is reduced to <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">5</span></span>, the remaining of your number will have fled the government and said government is likely collapsing. At the very least there will be a civil-war or a coup.
That means you're dead at worst, but you could be blackmailed or some flavor of powerless, middle class, and unable to ever achieve much of anything ever again.
If this happens, [u:lit]all of you <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">lose</span></span>[/u:lit].
>Every week or other week, there will be a secret vote.
In that secret vote, it will be possible for you to <span class="mu-r">switch sides</span> to one of the covert factions. If you do this, you will get a payout and there is a chance they will be strong enough to prolong your life, or even your time in power and high status.
There also will be chances to take a bribe and <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-g">Cash Out</span></span>.
>1st. Highest Score possible, Victory
Being inside the winning side, surviving, and being high status with multiple vacation homes.
>2nd Highest Score possible, Millionaire
Cash Out into the US and go work for Lockheed Martin
>3rd Highest Score possible, Old Dog
Be spared by the winning side as having not done anything to anger or get in their way. You're just some boring policy wonk or congressman who just keeps their job.
>4th Highest Score, Ex Pat
You cash out and go live in the Bahamas or something, maybe France. You might be like a diplomat or something. This is the safest option as the nation can completely go up in flames and technically, that would mean you "won".
If you're not rich and alive, you don't get a score, you just lose.
