Rise to Power: Banana Republic

The dictator is dead. Democracy is for sale.

Welcome to Isla Paraíso. After decades of iron-fisted rule, El Generalísimo is gone — and for the first time in its history, the island is holding free elections. Parties, newspapers, unions and courts are being born overnight. All of them fragile. All of them up for grabs.

You are nobody: an ordinary citizen with no money, no allies — but boundless ambition.

How far you rise — and how dirty your hands get on the way up — is entirely up to you.

CLIMB THE LADDER OF POWER

On Isla Paraíso, power comes in layers — provinces, regions, the central state — and you'll have to climb them all. Win a seat in a provincial assembly. Take the governor's office. Fight your way into the National Assembly. Every rung grants real power over the simulation — and real opportunities to abuse it.

WIN ELECTIONS — OR RIG THEM

Build your platform, court the party bosses, knock on doors, fill the squares, watch the results roll in on election night. Or take the other road: plant scandals and rig the ballot. Public opinion is a weapon. Learn to aim it.

BUILD A STATE WITHIN THE STATE

Reach the top and you won't just govern — you'll appoint. Ministries for your allies. Courts and state companies for your loyalists. And in the shadows, the agencies: the secret service answers to whoever holds the leash. Every institution can serve the republic — or you.

A LIVING ISLAND THAT REMEMBERS

Isla Paraíso is not a backdrop: 500+ politicians with their own ideologies, ambitions and grudges compete for the same power you're after — at every level, from the provinces to the capital. Rivals remember betrayals. Allies expect favors. The economy reacts to your budgets, the streets react to your scandals — and if you push too far, the army may decide the experiment with democracy is over.

EVERY RUN WRITES A DIFFERENT HISTORY

No scripted story, no fixed path. Become a beloved reformer, a cynical technocrat, a puppet of the banana lobby — or the next Generalísimo.

• 400+ elected and appointed offices across provinces, regions and the central state
  
• 120+ laws to draft, amend, pass or sabotage
  
• 30+ state institutions and agencies to reform — or capture
  
• ∞ distinct endings shaped by your choices

A NOTE BEFORE YOU BUY

Rise to Power is a systems-driven simulation told through menus, maps, charts and text. If you love political sims, grand strategy and management games where the story emerges from numbers and decisions, you're in the right place. If you're looking for 3D graphics or action gameplay, this probably isn't your game — and we'd rather tell you now than after you buy it.

The island is waiting. Wishlist now — and choose what kind of history you'll write.