Democracy Playground

I would like to be able to simulate different styles of democracy and figure out which ones are the best. Best, of course, has different meanings, but basically I would like to be able to:

1. Define a process of simulating people in a democracy and their preference for abstract qualities or values
2. Define a process for selecting candidates with specific randomized traits (potentially tying into demographic simulation)
3. Examine the results of different democratic processes for a single or selection of electoral processes

Specifically I'm interested in:

• seeing how systems like these reflect underlying voter preferences:
  • first-past-the-post democracy
    • in a 2-party system
    • in a multi-party system work
  • ranked-choice election
  • scored-choice election
  • parliamentarian
  • direct democracy
  • liquid democracy
  • does being able to vote against someone change things
• seeing how gerrymandering works

Some things to be interested in (maybe basically just jumping from thing to thing in wikipedia)

• Arrow's impossibility theorem
• Condorcet Paradox