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EVE Online is known for its complex player-driven economy and politics. Basically capitalism with lasers.

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Its economy is largely controlled by players—manufacturing, trading, territorial war, and alliances function like a chaotic sandbox nation-state simulator. That’s why EVE stories often read like headlines from a sci-fi Wall Street + geopolitics mashup.

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