Geoplanetical is a political strategy and simulation game in which the player takes control of a real-world nation. Played mostly through detailed menus and a global map, it covers economic management (taxes, budgets, laws and GDP), energy production and power grids, natural resources and trade, a large research tree that extends to the colonization of the Moon, domestic politics with parties and elections in which the player can lose power, diplomacy, and military command up to nuclear strikes.