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They have a portrait of Stalin hanging in their office and gave thanks to Marx and Engels during their VGA award acceptance speech. Maybe some part of it is ironic and/or they're like the portion of /pol/ who like to use Hitler and the swastika as edgy symbols despite not being neo-nazis themselves, but it's not as straightforward as just being anti-Soviet anarchists.
I feel that has to be a psy-op on their part, getting the clueless idiots in gaming journalism on their side.
In-game communist are portrayed as bloody handed idealists who leave corpses in their wake, slaughter a small computing company for no good reason and manage to build a nuclear reactor but fuck it up and get their very own meltdown. They replace a corrupt monarchy with something that doesn't work and it all ends in a bloody failure.
Moralintern is deeply weird. Eh. Dammit, I hoped for a second game.
Moralintern is basically EU. Crossed with NATO, but mostly EU. The conversation with the Moralintern bureaucrat who has a thing going on with the guy smoking in the balcony makes this very clear to anyone with even a passing familiarity with EU rhetoric. Moralism is basically equivalent to EU's functional guiding ideology, stripped of the federalist impulse: ever-present, continuous progress at a snail's pace, so slowly one might not even notice it at all times... but above all economic stability ("constant 2 % inflation rate" and so on).
That part (the EU bureaucrat being a homo sex tourist) made me chuckle.
It's too bad people who make up the EU bureaucracy are working from false premises. I could imagine being in favor of a Moralintern. It works, sort of.
EU doesn't. But EU is absolutely wrong on energy policy, immigration, education and also defense. It's not actively working to kick yanks out, it's wrong on education and the energy debacle is absolutely a catastrophe. Mind you, yanks are now talking about how to drag EU into their China war because they have 'saved us' from the Russian menace in Ukraine.
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