Republic of Türkiye: The Most Detailed Management Simulation

# Republic of Türkiye — The World of Governance ## The Game World and Starting Point The scenario begins on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the Republic of Türkiye. It is based on the actual geography, public institutions, political parties, and public officeholders serving as of the start date. Public roles of real individuals and fictional developments created for the game are treated as distinct from one another. The player can select from existing political or administrative characters or create their own. The game offers various career paths across national administration, politics, public service, business, and social life. ## State and Politics The executive structure of Türkiye consists of the Presidency, vice presidents, ministries, affiliated/related institutions, and provincial organizations. The Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM) is represented through its members, parliamentary leadership, committees, and political party groups. Judicial bodies and regulatory/supervisory institutions are separate corporate actors. Actual political parties are represented with their leaders, deputies, organizations, members, platforms, and voter bases. The balance of power between the government and opposition, parliamentary arithmetic, intra-party competition, alliances, local politics, and the election agenda can shift within the game. ## Player Roles and the Character World The starting roster includes the president, vice presidents, ministers, deputies, parliamentary leaders, governors, mayors, and high-level public officials. The player can define their original character's name, age, profession, background, political affiliations, city of residence, and goals. Characters are represented via their public duties and the fictional attributes defined for the scenario. The private lives or unverified personal allegations regarding real individuals are not part of the starting world. ## 81 Provinces and Local Life Türkiye's 81 provinces are represented with their administrative hierarchy at the provincial, district, town, neighborhood, and village levels. Each province has a governor and governorate; each district has a district governorship; and where applicable, there are metropolitan, provincial, district, or town municipalities and municipal councils. Mukhtars serve as the local representative authority in neighborhoods and villages. In provinces with metropolitan status, village legal entities have been converted into neighborhoods, so current administrative status is used in game records. The names of districts, towns, neighborhoods, and villages are matched with official administrative records; names of incumbent governors, district governors, mayors, and mukhtars are added only from verified public sources. No official's name is fabricated if the source cannot be verified; instead, the office title is displayed until the record is confirmed. If a settlement does not have its own cell on the map, its administrative attachment is preserved at the record level, and the existing map geometry is not shown as altered. **Provincial Inventory (81):** Adana, Adıyaman, Afyonkarahisar, Ağrı, Aksaray, Amasya, Ankara, Antalya, Ardahan, Artvin, Aydın, Balıkesir, Bartın, Batman, Bayburt, Bilecik, Bingöl, Bitlis, Bolu, Burdur, Bursa, Çanakkale, Çankırı, Çorum, Denizli, Diyarbakır, Düzce, Edirne, Elazığ, Erzincan, Erzurum, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Hakkâri, Hatay, Iğdır, Isparta, İstanbul, İzmir, Kahramanmaraş, Karabük, Karaman, Kars, Kastamonu, Kayseri, Kilis, Kırıkkale, Kırklareli, Kırşehir, Kocaeli, Konya, Kütahya, Malatya, Manisa, Mardin, Mersin, Muğla, Muş, Nevşehir, Niğde, Ordu, Osmaniye, Rize, Sakarya, Samsun, Siirt, Sinop, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak, Sivas, Tekirdağ, Tokat, Trabzon, Tunceli, Uşak, Van, Yalova, Yozgat, and Zonguldak. **District Inventory:** Each of the 973 districts nationwide will be added as a separate record and linked to its respective province. In this initial recording phase, the coverage of 81 provinces has been defined; the specific names of districts, municipal types, and the names of officials are not yet considered complete. Neighborhood, village, and mukhtar records will be added once district connections are verified. The Turkey Administrative Divisions dataset (CC BY 4.0) updated on 2026-06-19 is the starting reference for district/neighborhood/village lists; official institutional records are used for the names of officeholders. Dataset citation: open-admin-data, Turkey Administrative Divisions. **İzmir Province — District Records (30):** Aliağa, Balçova, Bayındır, Bayraklı, Bergama, Beydağ, Bornova, Buca, Çeşme, Çiğli, Dikili, Foça, Gaziemir, Güzelbahçe, Karabağlar, Karaburun, Karşıyaka, Kemalpaşa, Kınık, Kiraz, Konak, Menderes, Menemen, Narlıdere, Ödemiş, Seferihisar, Selçuk, Tire, Torbalı, and Urla. Each district is attached to İzmir province. Names of district governors, mayors, neighborhoods, and mukhtars await verification until matched with the official current record. **Verified starting roster in İzmir:** Governor Dr. Süleyman Elban; Metropolitan Mayor Dr. Cemil Tugay; Balçova Mayor Onur Yiğit; Buca Mayor Görkem Duman; Güzelbahçe Mayor Mustafa Günay; Karşıyaka Mayor Behice Yıldız Ünsal; Narlıdere Mayor Erman Uzun; Seferihisar Mayor İsmail Yetişkin. The other 24 district mayors, 30 district governors, and neighborhood and village mukhtars will be added as they are verified with official current records. **Economy and Public Finance The economic world consists of households, employees, employers, SMEs, large corporations, agriculture, industry, services, energy, tourism, logistics, banking, public finance, and foreign trade connections. Taxes, public spending, debt, investments, and incentives are the fundamental policy areas of the national economy. Economic reports track currency and gold, monetary-credit conditions, prices and wages, production and employment, budget and debt, foreign trade, energy costs, and financial confidence. Data for Türkiye as a whole and regional differences are assessed separately. ## Foreign Relations and International Environment Türkiye has diplomatic, economic, cultural, and security relations with various countries, as well as contacts, agreements, trade ties, and foreign missions with international organizations. Regional crises, great power competition, decisions by foreign central banks, global commodity prices, and supply chain developments are external conditions that affect the country. ## Society, Media, and Public Opinion Media organizations, journalists, public opinion polls, civil society, professional organizations, and citizens evaluate developments from different perspectives. Public opinion trends may differ based on city, age, income, and social segments. Purchasing power, access to rent and housing, food security, income distribution, migration, demographics, and access to education/health services are part of the social agenda. ## Institutions and Public Services The Presidency, the Grand National Assembly (TBMM), ministries, high judicial bodies, and regulatory/supervisory institutions are distinct institutional actors. In the field of internal affairs, there are the General Directorate of Security, the Gendarmerie General Command, the Coast Guard Command, the Presidency of Migration Management, the General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs, the Police Academy, the Gendarmerie and Coast Guard Academy, and coordination units. The National Intelligence Organization is an institution with a separate legal status. Institutions are not represented as individual character icons on the map, but rather as institutional actors within the management and event system. ## Management Dashboard and Decision Agenda On the main dashboard, public confidence, administrative stability, parliamentary support, budget flexibility, inflationary pressure, employment outlook, quality of public service, disaster preparedness, social cohesion, and the balance of foreign relations are monitored. These are 0–100 indices designed for the game; they are not official statistics. Three files stand out on the opening agenda: public budget and economic outlook, the performance of public services, and disaster preparedness and local coordination. The player determines their own priorities. ## Economy Table as of November 3, 2026 The most recently published indicators to be used at the opening: - USD/TRY: 49.9993 selling; EUR/TRY: 55.9471 selling (CBRT reference rate, 03.11.2026). - CBRT policy rate: 36% (decision on 22.10.2026). - CPI: October 2026 monthly 2.58%; annual 29.77%; 12-month average 31.23%. - Unemployment: September 2026 seasonally adjusted 8.4%. - CBRT gross reserves: 169.1 billion USD as of 16.10.2026; 5-year CDS: 251 basis points as of 21.10.2026. - TRY deposit interest rate 42.9% and TRY commercial loan interest rate 41.9%: week of 16.10.2026. Since there is no verified data for the same period for GDP growth, budget balance, public debt, and current account balance in this opening record, no figures are fabricated. The dates of the data vary; they are not presented as measurements from the same day. Opening figures are initial data for the specified periods; they are not assumed to be live data.