Will the villagers wipe themselves out in a witch-hunt?

If I had to call it something, perhaps...

Civil Royale

Treaty Jam

Governot

Pavillion Shorts

Rotator Commandant

I dunno, something to that effect.

There's a general task that everyone (often even called a "crew" in space based flavors) has to complete to win, but there are people who are essentially secret saboteurs who are trying to complete a different objective that often explicitly causes the rest of the players to lose.

Look up Secret Hitler, which explicitly has you voting for government leader, different factions, and voting for which actions to take as a government. Your goal as the crew is to vote for democracy or uncover hitler, and your goal as hitler or a facist is to do facism.

It increases the score of the person doing that, but also increases the mass of the ship and speeds up sinking. The crew gets a fishing bonus.

You see in order to fish, you need:

1) to learn to fish with the proper fishing education. I’ll set that up and teach you but it will cost you. You will pay with 33% of the fish you catch for the remainder of your life.

2) a rod And bait following your education. I’ll also supply that, but again it will cost you. Since you can’t pay up front, I’ll extend you credit, and you will also pay as a percent of future fish. This time with a Variable Interest Rate up to 25% as permitted by the crews’ usury laws (after all we wouldn’t want you being exploited).

3. permit applications, and lucky for you I’ll help you with that also, but there is the matter of my fee as well as the fee for the permit which must be paid annually. As a courtesy I’ll waive my fee so long as you give me the first 100 fish you catch as a second in line creditor to the permit office which gets the first 50 fish you catch.

4. Taxes for the luxury of being on the ship and fishing from the ship. These are progressive taxes to make this fair for you and so taxes are determined by the total number of fish you catch. It’ll be somewhere between 10%-40% of your fish. Technically you could pay 0%, but the bad news is you’ll starve to death if you pay 0%. Note if you mess up the calculations there are extra penalties and fees, and potential jail time if you are found intentionally cheating on your fish taxes. Once again you’ll probably want my services to figure out your fish taxes, because let’s face it, I specialize in counting/managing your fish & you’ll need every minute to dedicate to fishing if you ever plan to have something to eat for yourself.

Roughly you will owe about 98% of every fish you catch to creditors and taxes, this is after the first 150 fish which come right off the top.

Don't forget, the fish tax collection agency already knows how many fish you've caught, but won't tell you what they think your numbers are. Instead, you need to independently provide your numbers and hope they match. Or you can hire one of their "partners" who will help you file your fish taxes correctly, for a fee...

Good luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_State

The ship is doomed, then. A captain must have total leeway to decide for a ship to survive and thrive. There must be no external limits to his power, but morale is a thing, and when morale gets bad enough there is mutiny. Which is why the real limits to power must be internal, called "self-restraint", and therefore the success of the ship rests in large part in the ability of the crew to identify this virtue in a captain, in addition to his ability to run the ship.

The virtue of self-restraint is dying in today's world; many successful leaders are famous for not just not having any, but actively deriding the idea of having any. Sadly, the only way humans seem to learn this lesson is full-blown Collapse. The cognitive dissonance we need is to both fight for self-restraint and so against Collapse, and also accept the inevitable defeat with equanimity.

If you are doubtful of the value of self-restraint, look to all the countries and governments that embrace the strong-man philosophy, and see how they are miserable places to live, to raise families, to grow up. Especially for intellectuals, geeks and nerds, because they are the ones that see the problems and are helpless to change it, and if they don't quickly learn camouflage themselves, they get murdered. And camouflage is dishonest, and so they live despising themselves. Imagining this dystopia is one way to motivate oneself to fight, and fight hard, to avoid this fate.

Funny how, when I originally read OP's game, I thought he was talking about COVID response, but then realized he was probably talking about climate change. It's spooky how no matter what the crisis is, we seem to collectively respond to it in the same futile, guaranteed-to-fail way.

The leaders of that group can even periodically fly their private helicopters off the ship, to meet and discuss how great they are for keeping the ship from sinking, even though the weight of the helicopters is helping it sink faster.