The Constitution screen: nine ideology presets

About this game

Developer: Gaming Minds Studios · Publisher: Kalypso Media · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Government / Policy / Laws

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What to study

A constitution as a one-screen political machine: presets on the left for players who want an ideology off the shelf, the electorate plotted as data in the middle, and the actual law - eight articles with their current settings spelled out in plain words - on the right. The flavour text does the teaching with jokes that are also mechanics ('Military buildings have no function'), and the footer states the commitment device out loud: this locks until the next election. The matrix miniaturises the same citizen plot the game shows full-screen elsewhere, so the screen teaches its own map. Frame at about 0:57 in the Gameplay Trailer (Steam), a scene-change survivor (v0_0022 at 56.6s) inspected at full resolution in this run; the build's Work in progress watermark is burned into the trailer, disclosed in the elements.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

panel-grid side-panel detail-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Marker

Screen inventory

• left, ACTIVE CONSTITUTION: a 3x3 of illustrated preset cards - Communist, Authoritarian, Militaristic, Socialist, Own (highlighted), Theocratic, Socially Liberal (green tick, in force), Liberal, Capitalist - with a flavour ruling below in linked keywords: 'Free massage in hospital instead of driving a tank! ... good healthcare and rejects the military ... surveillance is severely restricted. Military buildings have no function.'
• centre, POLITICAL MATRIX with Show Factions and Show Tropicans both ticked: six pastel faction territories (Communists, Militarists, Intellectuals, Religious, Environmentalists, Capitalists) plotted with hundreds of citizen dots and two Presidente head markers; a footer adds the lock-in rule - the constitution may only change after the next election (Mar 2045) - over a Reset button
• right, AREAS OF THE CONSTITUTION: eight article rows, each a topic and its current setting with a blue arrow: Right To Vote - All Citizens; Military - Pacifism; Church and State - Atheism; Work & Pension - Pension Fund; Separation of Powers - Real Separation; Healthcare - Two-Tier System; Freedom Of The Press - Free Media; Personal Rights - Open Society

Top 3 colors

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Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Gaming Minds Studios / Kalypso Media, Tropico 7 screenshot: Tropico 7 - Gameplay Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Kalypso Media.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-22: scene-change survivor v0_0022.png (56.6s) inspected visually at full resolution in this run; keeper file constitution.png is a byte copy of that survivor

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-22); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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