As many have pointed out, it's very biased. You can't, for example, build a Socialist utopia, not one with a functioning economy. Unemployment is mostly tied to GDP, which is mostly tied taxation. If you want your people to have jobs, let corporations go wild, which is antithetical to how it works in real life. Even if we pretend that the USSR was a truly Socialist country, its planned economy actually worked at a certain point, and its collapse wasn't proof of its inadequacy, but was rather linked to a series of other issues. But building something like a modern-day Scandinavian nation? Forget about it.

Still, it's pretty fun for about 8 hours, after which point you reach the point where you've done all you could and are now simply maintaining what you have. That's when it becomes really boring.