BUILD YOUR EMPIRE
Every player starts somewhere different.
Your Foundation determines the kind of power you begin with.
Your Power Base determines where that power enters the board.
From there, the country is yours to ruin responsibly.
BUILD WEALTH
Acquire productive assets and build the financial base needed to fund everything else.
BUY INFLUENCE
Expand your reach through political institutions, media systems, technology, logistics, energy, and other centers of power.
CONTROL TERRITORY
Capture strategic nodes across the country and establish regional control.
SHAPE THE COUNTRY
Your actions affect more than your own position. Strikes, unrest, investigations, economic instability, institutional decay, public opinion, and other national pressures can reshape the entire game.
CLAIM CONTROL
Eventually, being rich is not enough.
You have to decide what kind of ruler you intend to become.
THE COUNTRY FIGHTS BACK
OBTRTA is not a race along a fixed track.
The systems around you react.
Markets can destabilize.
Workers can strike.
Investigations can begin.
Rivals can retaliate.
Institutions can weaken.
Public opinion can turn.
Revolutionary organization can grow.
The strategies that make you powerful may also make the country harder to control.
Sometimes that is your opponent's problem.
Sometimes it is yours.