Is Democracy 3 deterministic?

All of the systems in this game are very complex. Policies have all sorts of knock-on effects, and voters are effected by any number of them.

But if I perform the exact same actions in multiple runs of the game, will I get exactly the same result?

It would be nice to know the answer to this question right down to the individual voter level, but probably only the developer could answer that, so I'd settle for an answer at the election level.

Solution 1:

Have a look at http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy3/modding.html, where the game model is described. Most of the game turns out to be deterministic, however some things like dilemmas can use _random_ as input, i.e. some events happen randomly. As an example, my Prime Minister was recently assassinated, but upon reloading the autosave (the game crashed) he had instea survived.

So tl;dr: If you do everything the same, the randomness of some events will still yield a different outcome which may be severely different.

Solution 2:

According to a few let's plays I've watched, the game starts with different stats every game. So if that was correct, doing the same thing every time would lead to a different outcome for each game.