I've written down a lot of the thinking behind Syphilisation while developing it. The following links will give you a good overview of these thoughts if you're interested in it.

Core Concepts

• Manifesto[whynotgames.in]
  
• The Big Question of Ideological Games[whynotgames.in]
  
• Colonial, Non-Colonial and Decolonial[whynotgames.in]

Civilization

• L'etat, C'est Moi - Identity in Civilization[whynotgames.in]
  
• The Recreation Commons of SMAC[whynotgames.in]
  
• One More Turn[whynotgames.in]
  
• The Villages of Civilization[whynotgames.in]
  
• Cycles of War in Civilization 6[whynotgames.in]
  
• Searching for Postcolonialism in Civilization 6[whynotgames.in]
  
• The Pleasure of Translation in 4X Games[whynotgames.in]

Postcolonialism

• The Rewards of Building Ideological Games[whynotgames.in]
  
• Solving ICS Through Postcolonialism[whynotgames.in]
  
• Postcolonial End Games[whynotgames.in]
  
• Postcolonial Monster Hunter[whynotgames.in]
  
• Postcolonial Stardew Valley[whynotgames.in]
  
• Postcolonial Breath of the Wild[whynotgames.in]
  
• The General Question of Postcolonialism[whynotgames.in]