   CityStates
  New web-based political strategy game.  www.citystates.net.  Give it a try, the beta test is free.   
  looks rather fun and interesting, altho I don't know how many people will invest real money into it. I'd definitely play if I could get far and powerful without having to use real money. Good luck with it.   ;  I'm unsure how much I would want to spend real money in this kind of game, and even less sure how much I would trust it in the hands of a company that can't spell "ad".Anyway, you make it sound like the point is to make the best bulletin board and get the most visitors that click on ads.  In that case, I could just make my own bulletin board, and keep the ad revenue to myself.  Am I missing something?   ;  is this a clone of nationstates? because nationstates was very cool   