What's the Story?

Citizenship is the world's first board and app game aimed at promoting awareness of protecting the rights of asylum seekers. The game is premised on national citizenship tests, and on the resettlement 'queue' that some refugees are said to jump.

Citizenship tests are mandated by United States and Australian Governments and imposed on all immigrants, including those seeking humanitarian visas. By nature they are unfair, discriminatory and a poor test of how good a citizen a person will be (this is why all our immigrant playing pieces have worry lines on their foreheads). Test yourself with your friends and see whether you would qualify for entry into your own country when confronted by the faceless bureaucrats of your government.

The playing characters in the game represent a variety of nationalities that players can adopt. Players interrogate each other with question cards from the app, and if answered correctly, progress in the immigration queue. Along the way players will confront a faceless bureaucrat who may set them back, or progress them toward citizenship...more or less like in real life. The first player to reach the end of the queue wins the game and attains citizenship.

Aside from raising awareness of asylum seeker issues, we intend to donate profits to organisations that help asylum seekers in their process of attaining refugee status.

Rules of the Game.
To play the game, download the free app & buy the board.

• All players choose an immigrant playing character to be placed on the 'Queue Here' space in the immigration queue on the game board.
• A nominated player becomes the starting interrogator, takes this mobile device and 'interrogates' the person to their left with three question cards from the app.
• If the player on the left of the interrogator answers the questions correctly, they move forward in the immigration queue on the board for the amount of spaces shown on the question cards. If the answer is incorrect, the first of the remaining players to answer the question correctly moves the indicated spaces in the immigration queue.
• Once the three questions are completed, the player holding this mobile device passes it to the player on their left who then in turn interrogates the player on their left with the next three questions.
• This is repeated until someone attains citizenship.
  

• If a player lands on a 'Faceless Bureaucrat' space, they must pick up a Faceless Bureaucrat card and do what it says on the card.
• If the same question comes up twice, you can press the refresh button on the question card in the app to display a new question.

Have you got a question to add to the game?
Contact us to suggest additional questions for your region, we'd love to add them.