This is a game for five to eight players. Each of the players is a member of a political party attempting to earn points by winning elections or joining forces with other parties to win elections. Like in the Liberals v. Conservatives game, elections are won by finding the policies that appeal to the broadest cross-section of the electorate. Also as in that game, the electorate has widely differing opinions on the best policy, but each voter will always choose the party which has the policy closest to them.
Parties compete with each other to produce the policy which commands most support.
Above each policy position is a column on which we will later place a counter to represent the number of voters favoring this policy. The counter will be moved up and down from election to election. At the beginning of the game electoral opinion is distributed as shown by the lightly shaded areas on the board. Note that, at the beginning, the main body of electoral opinion is clustered in the middle, with high or low tax rates being less popular. Each party is given 5 points in campaign funds.