Sun City is absolutely not an appropriate tool for modeling societal policy.
One of the original authors, Will Wright, gave an interview many years ago expressing his horror when he found out that city planners were doing precisely what you suggest.
Quote:
“I think if we tried to make it realistic, we would be doing something that we wouldn’t want to do,” Wright said in an interview in 1999.
But that didn’t stop companies from believing Maxis could design realistic simulations.
Will Wright didn’t believe that was even possible.
“Many people come to us and say, ‘You should do the professional version,'” he continued.
“That really scares me because I know how pathetic the simulations are, really, compared to reality.
The last thing I want people to come away with is that we’re on the verge of being able to simulate the way that a city really develops, because we’re not.”
One of the original authors, Will Wright, gave an interview many years ago expressing his horror when he found out that city planners were doing precisely what you suggest.
Quote:
“I think if we tried to make it realistic, we would be doing something that we wouldn’t want to do,” Wright said in an interview in 1999.
But that didn’t stop companies from believing Maxis could design realistic simulations.
Will Wright didn’t believe that was even possible.
“Many people come to us and say, ‘You should do the professional version,'” he continued.
“That really scares me because I know how pathetic the simulations are, really, compared to reality.
The last thing I want people to come away with is that we’re on the verge of being able to simulate the way that a city really develops, because we’re not.”
https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/