GAME OF STATES

Joué par Bohdan Slezkin, Jerzy Siewierski, Leszek Szymański, Tadeusz Strumff, Michał Slezkin, Wojciech Siewierski et de nombreux autres joueurs inconnus.

Game of States was created around 1947 in Warsaw when Poland was integrating the Socialist bloc. Created by a few teenagers, the game was developed in the greatest secrecy in apartments where diplomatic conspiracies and military offensives were carried out in miniature between fictitious states: the parliamentary monarchy “Tiny Empire,” the social-democratic kingdom of “Niam Niam,” the communist dictatorship of the “United Materialistic Socialist Republics” and the “Republic of Poland.” A fantastic maze of ideas and strategies, of official and unofficial plot twists imagined by its practitioners, Game of States has developed over several generations through letter exchanges, the creation of political characters, spies, media manipulations, fake accidents, and is still enriched today by Michal Slezkin. As a cathartic outlet, it has become the realization of an utopia where reality can be reinvented, dissolved and transformed from game to game.