Covid Conundrum is a "civil policy simulator" that lets users experiment with the health and economic effects of various policies in a fictional county. Your county has 10,000 citizens and it's your job to keep them going in the best way you see fit.

All 10,000 citizens are modeled as individual entities. Some work and live in the same town. Others live in one town and work in another. Some don't work at all.

As in reality, you don't know who is carrying the virus--only who has been tested positive. If a town appears stable, there is still a risk in opening it up. On the other hand, prolonged restrictions may make your economy unrecoverable.

Your county hospital has a capacity of 25 patients. Exceeding this amount will dramatically increase the mortality rate.

The simulation runs for 120 days--from 1 March 2020 to 29 June 2020. It begins in the paused state, and speed can be controlled via the buttons on the lower-left. When all 120 days have been simulated, the option to reset will appear.

Model Limitations. The model is "tuned" to mimic real-world numbers in rural North Carolina, USA. There are some notable limitations, though. In particular, this model does not take into account traffic in and out of the county beyond a simple "mutation rate".

Of course, the project is open source--so you can always modify the model parameters if you feel they're wrong. The files Simulation.hx, Person.hx, and City.hx contain the simulation parameters. The project was made in Stencyl. You'll need that, and the "Text Utils" extension to recompile the simulation.