About This Game

Take Command of the Modern World

Global Protocol: New World Order is a data-driven grand strategy game set in the world of 2026. Pick any of 221 countries, from global superpowers to fragile states, and steer it through modern economics, politics, diplomacy, and war, alone or with friends online.

Every country starts with real-world data: GDP, population, military strength, alliances, resources, and political systems. What happens next is up to you.

Every Nation, Your Way

Lead the United States and maintain global hegemony, guide Brazil through economic transformation, or take on the ultimate challenge with a fragile state fighting for survival. Each country has its own difficulty rating, and you decide how warlike the AI should be, from Peaceful to Armageddon.

A Nation That Pushes Back

Your economy, your politics, and your people are tied together. Inflation and unemployment move voters, young adults without jobs fuel unrest, and a failing government can fall to a coup or a revolution. Every nation has a full population pyramid: people are born, age, migrate, and vote, while your laws, healthcare, and education shape how long they live and how many children they have.

Choose Your Path

Steer your country's ideological and technical future through the Knowledge Network. Each tier demands a difficult trade-off: picking one rival doctrine permanently locks out the other two.

Shape the Global Order

Negotiate trade deals, forge and break alliances, open embassies, and send envoys to win friends or meddle in elections. Push sanctions through the UN Security Council under the shadow of the P5 veto, or wage economic war with trade wars, currency manipulation, and debt-trap loans. Behind the scenes, your intelligence agencies steal technology, sabotage rivals, and fund opposition parties abroad.

The world won't wait for you. Every AI nation follows its own personality and a grand strategy it rethinks each year, while domestic crises and scripted events drawn from 2026 flashpoints keep the pressure on.

Command Your Forces

Deploy everything from infantry and armor to drones, destroyers, and submarines. Base air wings at airfields and on carriers, ship armies across oceans for amphibious landings, and keep the oil and manpower flowing. Fog of war makes intelligence as valuable as firepower, and when the guns fall silent, war score decides what the peace deal can take.

Nuclear Deterrence

Nine nuclear powers start with arsenals based on real-world estimates, and DEFCON tracks your readiness from Peace to Imminent. Order a nuclear launch and you are at DEFCON 0: Exchange, with no recall. Missile-defense batteries can intercept incoming strikes, and a nuclear power under attack can fire back before your warheads land. Strike first, or hold your arsenal as the ultimate deterrent. Mutual Assured Destruction is not just a theory; it is a game mechanic.

Play Together

Online multiplayer puts up to 8 players in the same world, each leading a nation while the AI runs the rest. Invite friends through Steam and play across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Peace offers from another player wait for your answer, and if a friend drops out, the host can let the AI hold their nation until they rejoin.

Victory on Your Terms

• Military Hegemony — dominate through territory and unmatched military power

• Economic Superpower — command the world economy and its trade

• Diplomatic Leader — lead a broad alliance, win over the major powers, and hold a Security Council seat

• Technological Ascendancy — lead the world in research

• Nuclear Deterrence — keep the peace through nuclear strength and a wide network of allies

Or play without a finish line: there is no end date, and you can keep playing after any victory.

Make It Yours

Change countries, doctrines, units, buildings, laws, and events, build your own starting world in the in-game Mod Builder, and share it on the Steam Workshop.

Key Features

• 221 playable countries and 4,600+ provinces, based on real-world data projected to 2026

• Online multiplayer for up to 8 players, with cross-play on Windows, macOS, and Linux

• Population pyramids and elections, with parties in every country (104 modeled on their real-world party systems)

• 54 goods on a world market and 70 building types

• 150 doctrines across the 10 branches of the Knowledge Network

• 17 unit types across land, sea, and air, plus 7 missile types and missile defense

• 22 major alliances and treaties, from NATO and the EU to ASEAN and BRICS+

• 5 victory conditions, with no end date

• Mod Builder and Steam Workshop support

• 13 languages and Steam Cloud saves

Development Roadmap

Global Protocol is in active development. Planned features include deeper naval and air warfare, railroads, peacekeeping operations, and a space race, and you can follow the live development roadmap on our website.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

This game uses generative AI in the following ways:

Art assets: Store page capsule art, in-game UI icons (unit types, building types, resource types, cursors, notification icons), and promotional imagery were created with the assistance of generative AI tools, then reviewed, composited, and finalized by the development team. Country flags are real-world flags sourced from public datasets, not AI-generated.

Audio: Sound effects and music tracks were generated with the assistance of AI tools, then curated, edited, and mixed by the development team.

Map and terrain: Map textures, heightmaps, and province geometry are derived from real-world public domain geodata (Natural Earth shapefiles, NASA SRTM elevation data), not generated by AI.

Game data: Country statistics, province data, economic figures, and military data are sourced from real-world public datasets (World Bank, REST Countries API, Natural Earth) and processed through deterministic data pipelines, not generated by AI.

Gameplay and simulation: Game logic, AI behavior, economic formulas, combat resolution, and diplomacy systems were developed with the assistance of AI coding tools, then reviewed, tested, and refined by the development team. No generative AI is used at runtime during gameplay.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Global Protocol: New World Order is a grand strategy game that depicts modern geopolitical conflict, including warfare, military operations, nuclear weapons strategy, economic sanctions, and espionage. All content is presented at a strategic map level using unit icons, province overlays, and statistical readouts; there is no graphic violence, gore, blood, dismemberment, sexual content, nudity, or disturbing imagery. Nuclear strikes are represented by map effects and statistical consequences, not graphic depictions. The game involves themes of war, occupation, regime change, and global power competition in a political/strategic context appropriate for a general audience.