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Control is a game in which you try to maintain a balance of health, happiness, and economical success while fighting off menacing intruders in the two, closely related worlds that you rule.

Remember to keep your Save Code in a place where you can find again. A new day occurs every five minutes, and effects take place.

Your ultimate goal is to obtain five unique Death Star parts and rule over the great expanses of the universe.

* To view the source, click "See inside" on the project page.

# TUTORIAL # (Added at the request of commenters)

In Control, every five minutes is a year. You may pass bills that will apply their effects at the end of the in-game year. Every "year," your two worlds' stats get gradually harder to manage, so you must control your stats by passing bills that might improve the stats your citizens are complaining about in your email. (You can view the effects of each bill in the code, but it's supposed to be secret.)

Sometimes, other worlds might declare war on your world. In that case, you should fund the military. At other times, epidemics may start in your two worlds. While there's an epidemic, you might want to increase your public health funding.

Once your nation stats become good and you eliminate debt in both worlds (or get a large surplus), you can buy a Death Star fracture which will take a heavy toll on your world. Note that the more fractures you have, the harder it is to get the next. Once you collect all five unique fractures, you win the game.

You can view what stats you should improve by reading the email, which reflects what your constituents think of your ruling.

By the way, the music is a mix of two tracks that are randomly generated each time you play the game from a library of drum and piano sounds.