Creating a card game but need help

These days I've been thinking of making a new card game. I want a game that's set in a banana republic in which the objective is to become president. Becoming president will be possible on three different ways: getting >50% of parliament on your side, getting >50% of the supreme court on your side or getting several generals on your side and stage a coup. I've already thought of a rough outline for the game, but I still need many card ideas and especially good rules, so perhaps some of you might help. This is what I thought of so far:

The game is set in the capital of the country. The map will be completely made up from cards, every card being a building (or park, water or other natural object). Some cards/buildings will have special characteristics, others won't. By making the map out of cardsyou'll be able to create a different city every time you play the game.

In the city there will be numerous characters (soldiers, police, doctors, engineers, etc. see below for a list) who all have different functions. I will probably make those characters out of cardbords, and place them in standards of several colours. The colour of the standard shows the alignment of the character, so a character with a red standard is onwed by the red player, etc. In the beginning of the game most characters will be neutral, which will be represented by grey standard. You can get neutral characters on your side by bribing or threatening them (and perhaps other ways, any suggestions?), you can also try to get other players characters on your side, but that will probably more difficult. And of course it's also possible to assasinate other players characters. Somehow it should also be possible to create new characters. You can make scientists if you control the university, doctors if you control the hospital, etc., but I still have to figure out how that will work. Probably the game will need some sort of money as well.

A very preliminary list of characters and their functions, suggestions more than welcome. Of most characters there will be more than one:
* policeman, will be able to kill, bribe, arrest and extort
* soldier, probably the same as the policeman, but stronger
* pilot, to use planes
* captain, to use ships
* scientist
* engineer, to sabotage and blow up things, and perhaps to create machinery
* doctor and/or nurse, to heal or reanimate people
* maffia boss, gangster and/or hired thugs
* bank director, to get money
* businessman
* bishop/priest
* union leader
* ambassador, I can also make an embassy building instead of an ambassador character, which would provide a safe haven for characters.
* tv broadcaster or other media characters
* general, needed to stage a coup
* judge, for in the supreme court, needed to become president using the supreme court
* PM, for in parliament, needed to become president using the supreme court

any ideas? additions? suggestions? especially proposals for rules are welcome, because so far I don't have any real rules.

Haven't ever played Junta? It's almost what you describe. 




Another very interesting (more "serious") game of that style is Republic of Rome.



Well after reariding your post. They don't seem exactly what you say... but Junta at least may approach it.

If you want a new scenario every game, you better make a computer game with a random scenario creation feature.


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Maybe ministers,pimps,officers(to form a group against coup probably),farmer,worker, different political group representatives or political wings...

Good luck.

I am sure it is a bored game you are describing...