Money is printed through loans in the modern economy, which means you need someone willing to hold trillions of ious. That’s not something that’s going to happen. It’s also not a long term solution since the government spends more than it makes every year, so borrowing would need to happen again immediately, which no one is going to do for similar rates after the money printing. This puts the government in the position of getting fucked even harder or starting the hyperinflation cycle as they print money again.

There hasn’t been a single country that’s successfully printed their way out of this problem. The best case is probably Japan like and the US has 20-30 years of stagnation or gradual decline. The worst case is probably Weimar Germany.

I think the game just has too many mechanics and it doesn’t work that well together.

This is probably a good thing as these tend to be shit jobs with high turnover. Dealing with angry people for hours on end isn’t great for anyone long term.

Palworld comes close to what you want. There’s not a ton of story and you can skip all of it if you want, there’s not much gated behind what the main quests are. There’s several different types of random events, you can configure the frequency of some of them as well. It is third person and the tech is more gun focused though.

If you give up the single player part, FF 14 is basically what you want.

There’s not a ton of options because it’s a tough type of game to make, and you have to be better than someone’s experience of yet another Skyrim run.

I’d say it’s more passing intentionally vague laws so if one doesn’t get struck down it only takes the executive branch to make 90% of guns illegal.

These laws are written by groups that want to ban guns outright. They don’t have interest in actually learning anything about them, they just want to make it sound as scary as possible. That way it seems like a common sense baby step towards a full ban.