One of the best turn-based strategy games I ever played, only improved upon in Imperialism 2. The production team really cared about this title and frankly, it shows in the final product.* I have played this game hundreds of times and still own the original release CD. Like most political AI's it's somewhat rudimentary on that front, but not out of line with any product of it's day and not far off from current implementations, imho. My hats are off to SSI mgmt for green-lighting this one! :-) SSI Webmaster (at the time) * I am biased, I still have my Imperialism coffee cup and Box art mock up, and I designed the original official web site for the product. But I also know they cared because I interacted with the associate producer and other publisher side assets daily.