This game is a very complex simulation of capitalist economics. You build a business and try to achieve profit. This is VERY HARD, even on Very Easy, yet it's the most rewarding experience I have ever had. Managing raw material collection, feeding it to factories to make goods to sell in department stores has never been so much fun, neither has researching technology to better the goods nor investing in the stock market! The best part of this is the hot seat multiplayer, which can also be used like the old play-by-email games we loved so much. And of course, regular hot seat is fine, and you can even try managing many companies with different strategies and seeing how they stack up. One disadvantage is there's no stock market in multiplayer, but I suppose that's for good reason. I mean, if you could buy your human opponents, that would kill the fun, and perhaps bug the game as well. Still, this game is a pure capitalist's dream, and I give it my full blessing!