&gt; The real interesting part of the game in my view is that conquest is no longer an option<p>Isn&#x27;t it though? Russia seemed to do OK with the conquest of Crimea. Anyway the suggestion of Europa Universalis is probably the closest you will get right now. If Paradox made a post-cold war sim I&#x27;d play the hell out of it, but I think it would be hard to do right and be interesting precisely because without real conquest and wars, there isn&#x27;t much that is interesting for a game on the global level.