)It is a macro game; you build a city - roads, railways, sea port, airport, forests, industrial estates, residential zones - you deal with taxes and police and health policy - but no individual people at all. The city itself is the focus of the game (though it's not really a game, as you can't "win" it). It's kind of organic but the attraction for me is the complicated decisions required in running an economy and infrastructure.
I guess it's a little anal. There really is a reason I graduated as an urban planner.
