State Sandbox

State Sandbox is an experimental game for socioeconomic simulation. It uses Large Language Models to simulate the world and complex policy impacts.

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Features

• 🌍 High dimensional game play (people, economy, media, crime, environment, etc).
• 🎯 Make arbitrary policy decisions and see the impact.
• 🌪️ Realistic randomized events and natural disasters.
• 🧠 Powered by powerful o1 reasoning models.
• 🏆 Leaderboard for comparing your nation to others.

Setup

Environment Configuration

See backend/config.py for the environment variables that are used to configure the app.

Development

• cd frontend && npm install && npm run dev
• cd backend && pip install -r requirements.txt && python main.py

Deployment

Railway (docker + postgres).