The year is 2013. Through a bewildering array of circumstances you find yourself the President of a small newly-formed country: Espland.  But now you're faced with a problem: How do you make Espland prosperous? In this class we will try to work out an answer to this question.  Since you're the president of Espland, we will be focusing on polices and political institutions, how and why they work (or don't). In the meantime we will also cover game theory in government, heterodox economics, political history, and historical examples of how countries developed.