DemocraCity creates the energy of a real election in your classroom. Civics education becomes an active and exciting experience.
DemocraCity is designed with a selection of modules, which can be combined to create a range of itineraries. Teachers can choose from a suggested itinerary or design their own.
Each game module is supported by robust educational resources designed to help teachers plan and deliver targeted lessons, consolidate student understanding, and assess civics knowledge in creative ways.
DemocraCity can be played on laptops, tablets, Chromebooks or phones. Follow the link for detailed instructions.
Download and installYou may need permission from your school, department or other authorities to whitelist or provide access to download the game. See our Technical and Policy FAQs.
DemocraCity has been approved or whitelisted by some State and Territory Education Departments. The AEC is working with each jurisdiction to seek endorsement of the game. For more information contact your IT Department, relevant authority or Democracitygame@aec.gov.au.
These devices are known to be compatible with DemocraCity. If your device is older than these devices, it may not be compatible. If your device is newer and not listed, please contact us.
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Yes, both are available on the downloads page.
The only site that needs to be accessed is https://democracity.aec.gov.au/ . This is the only domain DemocraCity communicates with. If it can’t be accessed, you may need to ask relevant authorities to specifically whitelist or exclude it.
The website is accessed by teachers to use the Control Panel and by the DemocraCity game to create data connections.