The whole point of computers is that you can make little virtual civilizations/people/zoos etc. and play god, right? Well check this out:
SimCity Societies. Where you could, hypothetically,
build your own Ankh-Morpork. The only thing better than playing god is playing patrician. Check out the Big Brother screen in The People's Republic of Steve. It's not very Vetinari but I think I want one anyway.
I'm not even going to bother commenting on the three demo cities being a guy running Ayn Rand's idea of Paradise, another guy running the aforementioned industrial totalitarian state and a woman running "Romantic City. There's a whole lotta love here - and plenty of fountains. Production is as flighty as its citizenry," and so on. Yes. Definitely not going to bother commenting on that. Did you know "a currency of hugs won't keep your city afloat"?
I'm still going to buy the game, anyway.