Is SimNation a Utopia? | The Sims Lore

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Today we're exploring SimNation, the fictional world in which all Sims games are set in, and we're going to be posing the question: Is SimNation a utopia?
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[TheSimsLore]

PLEASE READ: I will be donating all revenue made on this video to MASI (Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland), so there will be more ads than usual. Please watch all the ads through, don't skip, to help raise money. Thank you, stay safe everyone. 💕 P.S. Sorry to unpin Gianmarco Victor Venturi's pinned comment, which read: There is a map of Italy in the school of Montevista :D (very cool thank you Gianmarco!)

[davidgregoryshair]

One of the things I like is the "un-realism" of The Sims. A little green kid with pointy ears goes off to school and can bring home any kid in the neighborhood, even little kids with lots of hair and pointy teeth! A plumbot takes the baby for a stroll. Witches fly around on brooms (little ones even with training wheels). It's fun because it's not taking itself seriously. And as for utopia? I think "normal" Oasis Landing is much cooler than utopia!

[giammarcovictorventuri]

There is a map of Italy in the school of Montevista :D

[CapnCrimson]

I once had a sim get really sad after she paid her bills, and I've never related as much to a sim as I did in that moment... That was a very real moment...
That being said, I do like the mix of reality in the game. I'd get bored if it was utopian, because everything would be perfect and there wouldn't be a challenge. If you've never had to sell a window to afford food, have you even played The Sims? I'd even go as far as to say The Sims 4 is too far removed from realism. No burglars, no real threat to getting sick, no mental breakdowns, just a few examples. That being said, it's not fun for it to be the exact opposite either. The Sims 1 was really hard, and while I enjoy the game, sometimes it makes me want to pull my hair out because my sims are forever hungry and crying in puddles of blue urine, because they're smelly and nobody wants to talk to them.
I enjoy some of the unrealistic parts as well. Having a spellcaster and a vampire woohoo in a rocket ship is part of what makes The Sims unique. I think a good mix of realism and crazy is important to make the game challenging, but fun at the same time.

[daWhiteBAG]

The implementation of University tuition and loans doesn't make it more realistic - it just makes it feel more like America. Where I come from, students loans aren't a thing, so seeing it in a game just feels super alien to me (headcanon - aliens are responsible for students loans, lmao).

[lakeddieg]

We are the Gods of our sims but they still have free will . I swear I'll tell my sim to clean up and they just go play the sims on the computer -.-

[alexdelaloire]

I can't believe you mentionned Royalty without mentionning Princess Cordelia!!

[Life_Universe_Everything]

I end up modding out healthcare costs in my game, because I don’t have them where I’m from.

[arieltales]

I wonder why there's not a truly millionaire family in the Sims. The Landgraabs and the Alto only have 75, 000 simoleons on their respective bank account. According to the game that's more than enough to control the world.

[MRYJ.]

I'm Bolivian and I was suprised that you even mentioned that the lama is also our national animal, I literally screamed QUEEEEN😂 Love your content as always

[ch.g.]

That Sims 3 Trump will now follow me into my darkest dreams and haunt me 😅

[luckyduchesse]

I'll be honest, real life bores me. When I play sims, I like to create chaos, I like supernatural beings and I love the Grim Reaper. I think that if it exists that much of mods to create more drama, like the violence mod and all, it's because a lot of players want to have surprises and bad things happened to their sims. I don't want an utopia. I want CHAOS.

[loonaboop]

Fun fact : Talking about alphabet letters in sims series, In the sims 2, while children are playing chess they will sit on books to play, the side cover of one of the books will say stuff in simlish writing but it also says 'asdf fsads dfsaf asfasfd' in alphabet letters on the top of the simlish writing or something like that lol, And also, in the sims 3, in sunset valley, there is a school and inside the school on the second floor there is a map of America

[elia]

I love this topic about the sims lore, and I really liked this video, but I need to say a couple of things: Hidden Springs is suppose to be separate from Sim Nation because has, how you sayed in the video, a royal and ruling household. That means Hidden Springs is a separate kingdom from SimNation (I like to think of it like a sort of sim equivalent of San Marino). Something similar happen to San Mayshuno: the Career of politics introduced in City Living refers to a single parliament, but we know from the past games that SimNation has a parliament and a congress like the USA. That means that San Mayshuno is another republic separate from Sim Nation. And that is partially confirmed by the same devs, that sayed that the city is inspired by city states like Singapore and Hong Kong.
Obviously what I sayed here is not 100% facts because actually we didn't know much about how actually is managed SimNation if not some description.
My opinion about the question if Sim Nation is an utopia: I think not, from the real word is better in many ways, but in other is actually worse (criminality seem to be really rampant if the criminal careers has ads on news paper and web 😂). I think like every society Sim Nation has his ups and down.

[hubanimations]

I guess when we brought up "Utopia" in the sexuality video. we (or atleast I) used the word in the sense that it is a form of escapism for LGBT players to create sims who can be with who they want to be without the homophobic hate speech. In actuality, the Sim nation is a utopia for some and not for others. Some (like LGBT, people of color, etc) can experience an egalitarian perfection that they can't have in the real world. However, of course, there are sims that are poor sims that can loose their whole family in a fire or get their prized belongings stolen from them only getting back a few thousand, social services permanently separating families with no 2nd chance, no unemployment benefits. Some things are designed into the game to spice things up and add an incentive to try and make your sims work for what they have.

[SrMikicas]

Ey, would mind to explain what is a Plumbob? aka"The green Diamond" I think it should be interesting, specially looking from the sims 2 psp perspective because in this video you talked about the freewill and that's something so interesting, I think some people made a really bad movie about the Sims where the main topic was freewill.

[OmenaOmega]

From a european point of view (more specifically french) many details in the Sims 2 that make the game more realistic to Americans are actually what makes Simnation feel unfamiliar to me. For example, the mailboxes, the schoolbus, the food, the way college works, the way houses are built, and many details like the design of objects or cultural references...
I dont think the Sims is utopian. At best it is a sugarcoated representation of the US with a touch of parody. I'm glad Sims are colorblind, non homophobic, and that sexual violence does not exist though. We get enough of that irl, i dont play to see my sims suffer. I mostly build and rarely play live mode anyway...

[YasmineWaleed]

I think the sims is the perfect balance, it feels realistic yet it’s a game! It’s a way of escape but it’s still real

[LucasAlves-hymp]

Your channeI is amazing! I use it to practice my English skills and also to enjoy my time listening about my favourite game! A pefect combination haha

[kelly_seastar]

The various kingdoms in the Sims Medieval start out separate. You have to select them from the territory map to ally them, then complete a quest to annex them.