Cooperation usually beats out competition though. Which is why for all that things look bad right now, alliances of at least modestly liberal countries have handily dominated and out-competed most autocracies. And the autocracies that have thrived have mostly done so by liberalizing, at least a little.

That game / simulation is fantastic. Thanks for sharing, I'm gonna pass it on at work.

More than fantastic, it's beautiful.

By that logic, every single human should be a psychopath by now.