How many restarts does it take to turn AFGHANISTAN into a LIBERAL DEMOCRACY? 

"I'm happy to call that a fifty percent success" - The US pulling out of Afghanistan

This kind of challenge may have been better for Democracy: Africa since it has 3rd World issues better represented.

What fascinates me about 91.631 is that you managed to pick out a prime number, but not only that, it's also bigger than its prime predecessor by exactly 10, meaning there is only one digit difference. All that is to say, 91.631 is a really cool number.

"Why is violent crime going up?" I mean, you cut military spending in the middle of a civil war...

I think it's just easier to go for a Soviet/American invasion

"we'll be a liberal democracy, we'll be horrendously in debt, but we'll be a liberal democracy" I mean, yeah.

1:16 Ah Machiavellianism an old classic

You nailed politics within the first minute and a half. "Keep the class warfare going so we have emergency powers to try and 'fix' things."

Oh boy here we go

what if next time you tried something like Kongo or some other country which is internal turmoil while having not the greatest economy? Sure, it may not sounds as extreme like North Korea, and I also have no idea if such country is in the game, but I still would like to see your way of attempting to fix it.

1:46 The US said the same thing.

"The whole world must learn our peaceful ways...BY FORCE"

Amazing but it feels like I know and don't know what's changing at the same time

Why environmentalists support was so high at the start of his term?

I really enjoyed this. Afghanistan is the most challenging country in the game. I made countless attempts at this and failed many times. But eventually I figured it out. The trick is to keep the Middle Income voters happy. Giving them mortgage tax relief, health tax credits and school tax credits plus the welfare fraud office will help to win that second election. Great video, thanks for posting 👍

Did he use a mod to play as Afghanistan? I've never played this game before.

Can you please tell me which mods you use to play with different nations?

WooAH I just looked outside, somehow in this video game, you actually did it in real life! Afghanistan's a thriving, liberal democracy now! Women actually make slightly MORE than men now! Theres no war, and the UN called it more democratic than Norway! The economy is booming, and they're currently celebrating the President's marriage to her new first lady! Every sitting party sent their leader to support the wedding, to get some patriotism points in the polls.

Alternate title: guy gets extra demonitized while playing a game that gets him demonitized

I can see the thumbnail making ppl angry

You should play Venezuela, it would be a good one

1:33 Afghanistan is Sunni I think, but at least with Shia that does not seem too out there. I have heard that in Iran there are a lot of transwomen, since homosexuality is outlawed, but transitioning is legal (obviously forced gender-reassignment is really fucked up, but this entire situation is really interesting imo and shows how even fundamentalists can interpret the same texts differently.) As far as I know their reading is "gender-reassignment surgery is not specifically outlawed (since it was not something people back then could even imagine was possible) so it is allowed." which is kinda neat I guess...

I remember there being something the US was working on called the "gay bomb". I guess this playthrough is what if they actually used it on Afghanistan

Play as iran too!

Afghanistan, like many other non-Western contries, isn't really an ethnically homogenous nation state like people in the West tend to presume. Most African and many Middle-Eastern countries are characterised by a variety of different ethnicities or tribal groups that have been incorporated together, either by an arbitrary colonial power or historic conquest, and are ruled over by a privileged minority who typically were installed by a colonial power or exploited the upheaval it created. With regard to Afghanistan, the Pashtun people (formerly known as Afghans until that name became associated with the multi-ethnic state) occupied lands in the south that were ruled by the Mughal Empire in the east and the Persian Safavids in the west, and took advantage of the upheaval between them to establish an independent state under the Hotak dynasty. They were quickly supplanted by the Durrani dynasty, who expanded the area of Pashtun control and established the Afghan Empire, which was later supplanted by emirs of the Barakzai dynasty who ruled until the monarchy fell in 1973. Despite their political dominance, however, the Pashtuns only constitute about 39% of the Afghani population, barely more than the Tajiks who are the next largest group at 37%, not to mention the dozen others. Although the Durrani dynasty set a precedent of ethnic inclusivity in their empire, it has not always been upheld over the years and ethnic tensions have always continued to exist, with Pashtun governance facing constant challenges by other ethnic groups in the country. Even today, most political groups or movements within Afghanistan are drawn along ethnic lines, with the Taliban arising during the Afghan Civil War to champion Pashtun interests and political dominance, primarily against the Jamiat who were the Tajik faction dominant among the mujahideen, and who thus posed a significant threat to traditional Pashtun hegemony if they were allowed to entrench themselves in the new Afghan government nascent in Kabul. Contrary to popular imagination, the Taliban isn't about religion, it's actually about ethnic dominance with only the trappings of religion.

12:15. You mean a positive feedback loop.

I got baited; thought it would be an eu4 vid. sadge :'(

wow

Hi!

helo

The CIA has been asking this question since the 70s

This is insulting

Constitutional monarchy foreign education of elites, foreign private schools in country, parliament, religious tolerance

BEHOLD! Afgaynistan.

Lmao

Do more xcom 2

Here's the problem you will literally never make enough money so you might aswell just spend money on the biggest possible projects and not care

Lmao W vid

= D

Fun fact : Afghanistan isn’t becoming democratic and liberal because it is a islamic nation with a conservative belief

So many adds ffs.

Quran doesn't prohibit gender transition, therefore it's allowed

Make a conservative communist america

the Afgan is heroic people who defeat the Soviet Union and USA 💪💪

First?

If you want the liberal Afganistan experience, just move to California!