The Successor

The president is dead. You are the lawful successor, with 23% approval and an election in 18 months.

Create your president and guide a fictional constitutional republic through 78 weekly turns. Negotiate with a divided chamber, appoint ministers, confront insurgency, fund reforms and uncover the assassination’s fixed hidden perpetrators.

Two major decisions and a scheduling choice shape each week. Public funds, campaign donations, personal wealth and charity stay separate. Policies take time; courts and lawmakers constrain power. Build trust, organize your campaign and face a national popular vote—or a peaceful defeat.

A self-contained, authored strategy story with recurring governing dilemmas, three modes, hourly emergency branches, monthly reviews and portable browser saves. Custom wording is recorded and resolved through a selected policy intent using local rules, not live AI. The campaign ends at election certification; later terms and a fully open-ended world are not included.