v1.6.53 — The United Nations Comes Alive

THE UN COMES ALIVE • Annual General Assembly — every September the Assembly convenes, and a Breaking News card brings the session to your desk. • Non-permanent Security Council elections — the ten rotating seats now turn over the way they really do: ~five up each year, allocated to the five UN regional groups (Africa 3, Asia-Pacific 2, Latin America & Caribbean 2, Western Europe & Others 2, Eastern Europe 1), each for a two-year term. • Everyone votes — the AI world and you. Cast your delegation's ballot in every contested region from the United Nations screen. • Run for a seat — declare your candidacy for your own regional group and win or lose on GDP weight, diplomatic reputation, and your web of allies and rivals. Win and you take a real non-permanent vote on Council resolutions for two years. • Every result is acknowledged — win, fall short, or just watch the cycle, the election is reported and brought to you to confirm.

INTERNATIONAL DOSSIERS • Every conflict and decolonization case now has a file at the UN and relevant organizations — Western Sahara, Kosovo, Palestine, Taiwan, Northern Cyprus, Somaliland, plus active wars and flashpoints. • Condemn, sanction, recognize, admit, refer to the ICJ, call a session, or mediate — routed through real UN votes with real P5-backer vetoes. Big developments arrive as Breaking News.

A LIVING WORLD STAGE • Alive AI rivals — great powers remember your history with them and act in character. • Run chronicle & legacy — a shareable record of your playthrough's arc. • Crisis theater — multi-turn flashpoint crises that escalate and offer off-ramps.

A MORE SOPHISTICATED MAP • Cartographic depth — graticule and ocean gradient. • Raised-continent land relief, baked once and faded by zoom — richer terrain at no performance cost. • Province and minimap colors fixed — de-washed fills, opaque silhouette, and borders drawn on top so colors never bleed past outlines.

FIXES • Fixed a rare game-start crisis popup that could fire on month one.