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You play as...a person. Who? Well, that's up for the game to decide. When you first start up the game, it automatically generates a random character who, theoretically, could be any average person in just about any country (the website boasts 190 possible countries). Your objective is to get this person through life, from birth to death. Hopefully dying of old age instead of, say, being tortured in prison.

Oh, yeah. Since this is supposed to be a [[Real Life]] simulator, it tries its hardest to present how life is actually lived in ''(insert country here)''. That includes the bad stuff: being permanently paralyzed after an assault, having nearly all your possessions stolen from you, [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking|your girlfriend breaking up with you...]] The difficulty is determined largely by which country your character lives in: a rich first-world country (for example, the US or UK) is considerably easier to live in than, say, China or India.

Oh, yeah. Since this is supposed to be a [[Real Life]] simulator, it tries its hardest to present how life is actually lived in ''(insert country here)''. That includes the bad stuff: being permanently paralyzed after an assault, having nearly all your possessions stolen from you, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|your girlfriend breaking up with you...]] The difficulty is determined largely by which country your character lives in: a rich first-world country (for example, the US or UK) is considerably easier to live in than, say, China or India.

To further help the "education" part (after all, this was meant to be played at schools), ''Real Lives'' also includes random facts about the country your character lives in. Some facts have a...quite dubious educational value. (For example: "Americans watch and play many types of sports.")

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* [[Simulation Game]]

* [[Vanity Window]]: The map in the center of the screen is the only window which can't be hidden. It's also the window most likely to get in your way (especially if you're using a widescreen monitor)

* [[~~Videogame~~ Caring Potential]]: It's surprising how much you can feel it when your virtual "favorite" sibling dies.

* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: It's surprising how much you can feel it when your virtual "favorite" sibling dies.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Not a lot of this, but it's there. Go ahead, divorce your spouse and make him/her take all 6 of your kids. Go ahead, ruin that guy's life so you can get a few extra ''(insert currency here)''. Go ahead, leave the dying guy out on the street to rot.