>>23829
If you've ever taken part in some piece of Chanadian politics, while there's not a lot of international relations grandstanding, it's the closest feeling you get to real world local politics.
You might not like the nitty and gritty aspects of local state/municipal politics, but I do, so that's why one of the main reasons I tend to invite *channers to civcraft.
For example, you should have seen how Versailles used to hold town hall meetings, in game, in an in-game town hall that they built. They had someone who managed who got to speak up at the pulpit, and took turns voicing their opinions in local chat before coming to a policy resolution/vote.
It was brilliant and beautiful to see such chaos managing itself.
You might think it's anti-intellectualism, but in all honesty, anyone who calls themselves an "intellectual" so openly very likely isn't one.
Furthermore, real world politics lacks intellectualism.