Disclaimer

Citizen was created to provide an engaging platform that demonstrates in a compelling way the actual workings of our legislative branch, in a real-world context that demonstrates multiple actual forces that influence the legislative process. Citizen also offers multiple perspectives on a wide number of contemporary issues, juxtaposed with a cross section of people, groups, and events from across our history that made significant change.  

All of the people and events depicted in Citizen have been researched to the best of our ability from multiple and diverse sources. Further, no outside influences, commercial, political, or otherwise, played any part in the selection of issues and entities reflected in Citizen. We did our best to check our politics at the door. It is our intention that any opinions that surface during the interaction and impact of these ideas, people, and events during play belong to the players alone. The only bias deliberately built into Citizen is the constitutional intent of our founders, whose cards offer players the greatest power.  

The information that appears on the cards for members of Congress is factual, based on the tenure of each member, their actual voting record from the previous session, and a small sampling of the industries represented by companies that contributed to the members’ most recent election. In the case of a new member, “non-raging” partisan status was assigned. Citizen in no way claims or implies any actual position any member may have on any issue.

Other people and events depicted in Citizen appear based on the researched impact of each at a given time in history. The icons and impacts that appear on each card are based on our best efforts at accuracy – any interpretations are our own. Absent any partisan documentation, a null symbol ( “O” ) appears. Just as with the Congress, no assumptions are made or implied regarding any person’s actual political positions or beliefs. Many of the people and events depicted in Citizen had impact far beyond what we could capture in a game and still keep it fun.

No sponsorship, affiliation, endorsement, or position is intended or implied from the factual information provided about the persons and entities depicted in Citizen. Any errors, omissions, or misinterpretations in Citizen are ours alone and unintentional.

At no point in modern political times have Americans been more divided, and we believe that basic civic ignorance is the primary dividing factor. We hope Citizen can be a gathering place to stimulate informed conversation, impart some much needed knowledge about how our democracy works, and bring people back together for some good old-fashioned fun.  

– Steve Barger and Gray Smith