Work continues on democracy. I am thinking of doing a basic skeleton website for it tomorrow, somewhere to store upcoming screenshots. I've been reading reviews of the recently released "political machine" by stardock. It seems to get good reviews (I must get a copy...) but i'm not worried about it being a direct competitor as it (and president forever) are:

1) Based entirely in the US, as though the rest of the world doesn't buy games or have politics...
2) Mainly concerned with personalities, TV campaigns and speeches, rather than real politics.

I view Democracy as being closer to NationStates than either of these games.
I must promote this website. I got the link from Slashdot. Basically it looks like some guy got wound up by some spammers and set up some JavaScript to constantly reload images from their pathetic viagra-toting websites constantly. Spammers deserve a fiery death, so feel free to let that page run in the background as you surf. I've already leeched 90 MB from these drug-peddling swine ;)