Poleconomy

Poleconomy (Board Game)

Publishers	World Games
Players	2–6
Setup time	5–10 minutes
Playing time	about 3 hours
Chance	Medium (dice rolling, card drawing, luck)
Age range	8-Adult
Skills	Simple mathematics; such as counting, finding percentages and multiplication, economics, governmental procedure,Social skills,Negotiation

Poleconomy is a board game designed by Bruce Hatherley in 1977 and published by World Games. Players compete to acquire properties and investments through stylized economic and political activity. This involves the purchase of real-world companies and advertising using artificial money. The players take turns moving around the board via the roll of the dice, landing on the gameboard squares and carrying out instruction according to the square's contents or player decision.

Poleconomy was first available from 1983 in New Zealand and Australian editions. It was later exported to South Africa, the United Kingdom and Canada in localised versions.

The game is unusual in its mirroring of real-world businesses for which it has licenses to use their trademarks. It also illustrates how political events such as governmental decision and taxation effect the economy. The players take turns at being the Prime Minister or President through elections. Once in power they have the ability to dictate the levels of inflation and so increasing or decreasing rents for property owners.

More than 1.5 million games of Poleconomy have been sold internationally, incorporating the participation of 260 major corporate sponsors who have leased advertising space in each of the separate national versions.

List of Companies Licensed within the game

New Zealand Edition		Canadian Edition
Company	Advertising	Company	Publicite
DRG	Permaglide	Crane	Pentax
Mitsubishi Forklifts	Sellotape	I.P. Sharp Associates	Global Television Network
Armourguard	Pakatoa Island	Bombardier	Central Trust
Anchor	Nylex [1]	Molson	Iona
Mount Cook Line	Decrabond	William Mercer Limited	Avco Financial Services
Van Camp	Amalgamated Marketing Ltd	Allied Van Lines Limited	Edmonton Oilers
Tux	Air New Zealand	Penmans Canada	Wynn's
NZ Forest Products	Team McMillan Ford	Maple Leaf Mills	Loblaws Companies Limited
Europa	Stewart Wrightson Ltd	Kaufman Footwear	Lepage
Hallmark	Pizza Hut	Dynamic Funds	Teleglobe Canada
Hertz	Kiwi Bacon	Fraser Institute	Cheerios
IBM	Dulux	Midland Bank Canada	Caldwell Luxury Towels
ICI	Marac	Kraft	Golden
NZIG	Mitre 10	Delta Hotels	Actualite Newsmagazine
Watties	Heylen Research Centre	Neilson	Texmode Fashion Sheets
Whitcoulls	Choysa	Dow Chemical Canada	Scott
Reidrubber	Amco		Victor
Donaghys	Hylin Laundry Services		CP Air
Lucas Service	Ralta		Ikea
Winstone	Atlantic and Pacific travel		Esso
	Network consultants		David Ingram's CENTRA
	GSI
	Northern United Building Society
	NZSE
	Heylen Research Centre
	New Zealand Times

External links

• Poleconomy Rules
• UK Poleconomy
• Slideshow of people playing Canadian Poleconomy