Anyone familiar with Sid Meier’s glorious Civilization games will know how life-sappingly addictive they can be. But one-man has taken this dedication to a whole new level, with an ongoing 10-year plunder.

More alarmingly, it sounds like the world in the game could be a realistic portrayal of things to come. Come the year 3991 AD there are just 3 remaining superpowers;The Americans (predictable), The Celts (Braveheart spirit gets you everywhere) and The Vikings (ok, maybe they’re a bit out of place) and the world has descended in to an inhabitable swampland contested over via near-constant pixelated nuclear warfare.   

Here at Firebox towers we’ve been taking notes as we start our plan for world domination.

[via Reddit]