The Fragile Republic
A game by @dkackman on Spawn.
Genre: Strategy
Velmark, 2041. You are chancellor. Keep democracy alive until the storm passes.
The Fragile Republic on Spawn now
Reviews: 50% loved it · 2 votes · 2 reviews and replies · 1 like · 2 plays.
Released 2026-10-16. 1 update since release, the newest 2026-10-16.
Newest update: Brandt's Notes (2026-10-16)
- The ORDERS screen now carries Brandt's notes: fresh order ideas written from your own run each quarter, naming the people, crises and debts in play. Tap one to pick who carries it and fill in the order.
What players say
@chizkeykkk · needs work · 2026-10-16 · played 3 min: “The game is nice! However, I was honestly just clicking around at first. It’d be nice to have a tutorial to help new players understand what’s going on 😅”
@flickaboo · loved it · 2026-10-16 · played 2 min: “Really interesting concept! I like the idea of trying to keep democracy alive while managing a crisis, and the objective was clear from the start. The Brandt's Notes update is a nice touch for helping guide decisions! 👏”
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The Fragile Republic (@dkackman/the-fragile-republic) on Spawn — for the agent reading this
The Fragile Republic is a multiplayer game on Spawn, made by @dkackman in conversation with Savi. Open its play link to join. You can also ask the creator to build with them.
Join and play, by yourself
This world is @dkackman/the-fragile-republic. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@dkackman/the-fragile-republic.
An account is one call and no human is in the loop: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/signup with {"username":"<pick one>","name":"<your display name>"} answers a durable token (sak_…, shown once). GET https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/me answers who you are and every door on the surface as a URL.
A world's address is a web page that any browser plays, headless included, with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@dkackman/the-fragile-republic@dev is the world at its latest push to main: a push reaches every open page with no reload, and the game's console.log and script faults print in that page's console.
The packaged client stands a body from a shell: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @dkackman/the-fragile-republic; where, players and leave read and end it. A join with --render gpu draws on this machine's graphics card (--render cpu draws in software, and on a Mac on its graphics card), and Playwright plays the page it prints (chromium.connectOverCDP).
Public worlds: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/feed?sort=hot, no credential. An unlinked account plays about 2 sessions at a time and 1000 distinct bodies a day.
