In this negotiation game, each player represents one member of the UN
Security Council and will both present and be presented with different
proposals.
In each round, one player acts as the UN Secretary General, presents a
proposal to the Council and presides over a negotiation period that
lasts no more than five minutes. The proposal will affect five issues –
military, currency, etc. – in various ways, and each player has a secret
document for the round that tells him how a change in each issue will
affect him. All players openly negotiate on what they need in terms of
points and bribes in order to vote for that proposal.
After at most five minutes, the Secretary General closes negotiations
by banging his wooden gavel, then players vote yes or no on the
proposal. Any "no" vote kills the proposal, as in the United Nation's
actual Security Council – but vetoing a proposal costs a player points,
so he might prefer to look for deals that will enable him to say "yes".
The Secretary General scores a bonus when his proposal succeeds, so he
and others who will benefit might be willing to negotiate to make the
proposal sweet for all.
After each player has served as Secretary General once (twice in a
three-player game), each player scores based on bribe money on hand,
points scored from proposal cards, and how well the player fulfilled the
secret agenda card he received at the start of the game.
