Yeah this is what a lot of people have been saying for a while. It is a meaningful difference.
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Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic. It doesn't have bike lanes but you can set a fully pedestrianised city, as emergency vehicles can use footpaths if needed. It also has trains, trams, buses and trolleybuses. Also helicopters, which are cool but impractical most of the time. The public transport line management is pretty in depth too, you can have pick up only spots, spots specific for workers or students, drop off only, or a bunch of other parameters. It's really good.
It also has resource management, but the difficulty settings are really granular so you can adjust it to however you like.
A good documentary, on the USSR though not modern Russia, is The Human Face of Russia. You can find it on YouTube. It's Australian as well so it's interesting seeing a look into the Soviet Union from the point of view of a country that is aligned with the US but without so much Red Scare propaganda.
If you're looking for something weird narrative wise with a hint of tragedy and is also short, I can't recommend Slaughterhouse Five enough. I won't go into it too much, but it will almost definitely be at your local library, and won't take too much time to read.
Atlantic Canada and the Maritimes refer to the same thing right? I'm not from there so I get the terms confused, but I hope to see a Nova Scotia/New Brunswick/ P.E.I. team eventually.
Surely it would be better to put teams in more passionate hockey areas? Seattle made sense but Atlanta really seems like football country. Quebec, Hamilton or the Maritimes seem better and more interesting to me, especially Quebec or the Maritimes. I'm sure I read a study about how Canada could support far more teams despite their smaller population due to the higher proportion of hockey fans.
I know dignity when I see it!
At least this take is honest about the disregard for human lives as long as it furthers the interests of the US.