The game actually is Eastern European. The devs are from Eastern Slovakia.
This CIA officer must hate his fucking life; “Johnson! you’re assigned to the steam department!”
“Oh god, no! Tell my wife and kids I love them.”
This reminds me of the time that I encountered one of my cousins whom I hadn’t talked to in 10 years at a family event. When he asked me what I had been up to, I told him that I was really into the Tropico series, and how I’ve been building a little communist island society and was having a lot of fun. His first response was, “Oh cool, so you have bread lines, secret police, and all of your citizens are poor af?”
It does have secret police, and ratings for how loyal workers must be to work in places like schools. At least it did when I played it. He should ask the pro Palestine students if their political affiliations have resulted in a loss of opportunities.