The Capitol
You are a bill. The building is your path: hopper, referral, committee, report, rules, floor, the other chamber, conference, enrollment, and one desk upstairs. Doors stay locked until the procedure says they open, and every locked door tells you the real reason. Walk it in 3D or in text mode — same rooms, same sources, same lesson.
Most runs end in committee. That is not the game being unfair — it is the game being accurate, and the ending says so with the real numbers. Start another bill knowing which door matters most.
You are in the Hopper Lobby. A plain lobby with a wooden box on a pedestal — the hopper. Every House bill starts as paper dropped in a box. A stairwell in the corner climbs to the Judicial Gallery, which is not on the bill's path — that is the lesson of the stairwell.
You are standing in the hopper lobby with a bill in hand. Walk with the arrow keys, WASD, or the on-screen pad; turn in quarter turns; read the stations you find; doors stay closed until the procedure says they open. Text mode — always available below — walks the same building room by room with buttons. Moving spends calendar days, because in this process distance costs time.
The building is a model, the procedure is real. No room here has the real chamber's shape, the calendar numbers are modeled — not measured — and the committee's dice are a stand-in for a scheduling decision a chair makes. What is real is the order of the rooms, the reason each door is locked, and the sources on every station.
Nothing here is scored, saved or sent anywhere beyond this browser’s own arcade record. The building is a model; the procedure, the thresholds and every station’s source are real. No real person is named or depicted — the offices hold empty desks and nameplates by title only.