See also Universalis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalis http://www.indie-rpgs.com/ramshead/

I'd love to be able to come up with something like Nomic in which the rules are expressed in a programming language.

I suspect it would be incredibly cumbersome, but it's on my list of things to try.

Here are two code nomics you might enjoy:

http://nomic.info/perlnomic/ http://groups.google.com/group/ecmanomic/web/getting-started

I miss Nomic. I played a few games of it back in, wow, 1995?

There were a good number of people playing online versions like Ackanomic and Internomic.

Great game with lots of high-level cleverness.

Pure Nomic works really well as a geek drinking game, try it.

interesting, immediately reveals the flaws of democracy.

reminds me of Flux

Hey look, it's congress!