Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. ~ John F. Kennedy

The year is 2012. Elections are fast approaching the United States, and the world is beginning to ignite. In Africa and the Middle East, the voice of democracy, once a whisper, is now the roar of the people. The Arab Spring has not left many of those countries unscathed, and now Syria is plunged into a civil war. In Europe, economic crisis in Europe is forcing the EU to make tough decisions on Greece. Civil war rocks the Ukraine, and Russia is playing a dangerous game of tug of war. In Asia, South Korea and Japan eye an increasingly dangerous China, all the while North Korea expands its nuclear program.

While all of this happens, a new threat is rising from the ashes of Middle Eastern war, one that threatens to tear apart the world brick by brick...

Madames and Sirs, Monarchs, Presidents, and Tyrants: Command a nation in these turbulent times, and drive it towards victory, or defeat.