Hi, I think this is an interesting idea, thanks for raising it. People have raised this a few times before, mostly in science fiction. You might wonder why countries don’t do this already.
The main issue is lack of enforcement mechanism. If someone does well with their videogame armies, the loser could agree to abide by the rules. Or they can “cheat” and just invade your country with a real army anyway. And there are strong incentives for cheating!
I think this idea is theoretically workable but it’s pretty hard to get it to work. You probably need an external enforcement mechanism somehow.
This paper has a bunch of jargon but might be related.
Hi, I think this is an interesting idea, thanks for raising it. People have raised this a few times before, mostly in science fiction. You might wonder why countries don’t do this already.
The main issue is lack of enforcement mechanism. If someone does well with their videogame armies, the loser could agree to abide by the rules. Or they can “cheat” and just invade your country with a real army anyway. And there are strong incentives for cheating!
I think this idea is theoretically workable but it’s pretty hard to get it to work. You probably need an external enforcement mechanism somehow.
This paper has a bunch of jargon but might be related.