Aha yes this neural network biz is the way to go, All the numbers are gibberish, but I can now cut spedning on schools and see the effects on my popularity. bwahahahahaha!
High on my todo list is to come up with a flexible 'fuzzy' system for voter generation. At the moment, being Men doesnt prevent them being women too (or neither) I need some way of making groups mutually exclusive or mutualy unlikely. I think adding the data for this game will actually be great fun (in a geeky kind of way).
I like the idea of being able to get a random focus group on the screen:
"Doug is a retired gay socialist who has 44% approval of your transpiort policy" etc etc