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The Chicken Council found illegally laid eggs
A farm laid forty thousand eggs over its quota. By law an egg without an allocated quota cannot be sold. The farmer came to the studio holding a tray and asked what exactly the hens are guilty of.
KNESSETSIMULATOR
Build a coalition out of people who cannot stand each other. Survive a year.
A satirical simulator of Israeli politics. No signup, runs in your browser.
120
seats in the Knesset
61
needed for a coalition
13
parties with their own red lines
52
weeks you have to survive
What actually happens here
The election takes a minute. Then the real thing starts: you go party by party and haggle. Each one wants a ministry, a budget or a law, and almost every demand enrages somebody else at the table. Reached 61 seats? Congratulations, now govern with it for 52 weeks. The promises you handed out come due. Or they do not, and then people come for you.
We barely had to invent anything
The institutions and rules we joke about are real. The people, parties and storylines in the game are not.
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Ministry appointments are sold on Telegram. Discount for two
The passport backlog runs to seven hundred thousand applications. Programmers built a bot to catch cancelled slots; scalpers took it over within a week. A slot with a clerk now costs a hundred dollars, with a discount for two.
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The state sells all its bread to one man
Before Passover the entire chametz of the country is sold to a single non-Jew for a twenty-thousand-shekel deposit. His predecessor was removed when it emerged his grandmother may have been Jewish.
How it plays
- 1
Election
120 seats split between thirteen parties. The threshold is real: somebody will not make it, and that is funny right up until it is you.
- 2
Negotiation
Work the parties, accept or refuse demands. The cabinet preview shows who ends up with Defence — and who you have already offended by promising it.
- 3
The term
52 weeks of events, crises and promises coming due. Partners issue ultimatums with a visible countdown. A government can fall in six different ways.
Voices at the table
Every leader speaks in their own register. The AI writes their reactions in character, not from a template.
«Twenty years I have been saying it. Twenty. Nice to be right once while still alive.»
«The yeshiva budget is untouched, I hope? Because if it is not...»
«A mistake. Tactical.»
Questions people ask
How long is a game?+
A full term runs about an hour. Most governments do not reach the end, so often it is quicker.
Do I need an account?+
Not to play — open it and go. An account unlocks the live lines written for your exact decision: free for the first 13 weeks of the term. After that it is either a subscription, or the game continues on pre-written lines — which were also written by humans.
Which languages?+
English, Russian, Hebrew and Spanish. Hebrew with full right-to-left support.
Is this about real politicians?+
It's satire and parody. The characters, parties and storylines are invented, and any resemblance is the genre at work. The institutions and rules we joke about, however, are real: the Chicken Council genuinely exists, and that is unfortunately easy to check.
Is it hard?+
Building a coalition is easy. Holding it for a year is another matter: a careful prime minister reaches the end roughly one run in three. Governments usually fall not from a mistake but from success — the promises you keep tear the country apart.
The president asks you to form a government
Not that he believes in you. There is simply nobody else.
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