THE SPLINTERNETFragmentation. Sovereignty. Digital Power.

Tariffs, borders, conflicts, and competing digital regimes are redrawing the map of the internet. The question is no longer if it will fragment — but how, where, and at what cost.

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★ About the Game

An immersive, high-stakes simulation for the digital age.

Designed for policy professionals, legal experts, and institutional leaders to navigate the "balkanisation" of the digital world.

Nations are asserting control in the name of security, cultural values, and economic resilience. The Splinternet places you inside that moment of decision.

You assume the role of a stakeholder — government, civil society, local business, think tank, or tech giant. Each with distinct incentives and constraints.

Negotiate Build Alliances Trade Influence Shape Policy

★ What Makes It Different

Every decision reshapes the digital landscape.

Real Stakes

Every decision triggers ripple effects across trade, human rights, security, innovation, and trust. The internet's fate is in your hands.

Hidden Agendas

Secret Agenda Cards define what success looks like for you. Your objectives may align with others — or directly conflict.

No Two Games Alike

A dynamic tug-of-war between national agendas, business profits, and civic rights. Outcomes depend entirely on player choices.

★ A Note from the Creators

The idea for The Splinternet came from a simple discomfort.

Conversations on internet fragmentation feel increasingly abstract and distant from how decisions actually unfold. In practice, digital policy is shaped by pressure, negotiation, trade-offs, competing risks — more often than not, all at once.

We wanted a way to surface that reality.

The Splinternet was created to bring stakeholders into the same room, give them different incentives, and see what happens when principles meet constraints. Not to argue for a single vision of the internet, but to explore the forces that quietly push it towards openness, control, or fracture.

"Digital sovereignty debates are often abstract. This experience makes them tangible."

Bring The Splinternet to Your Organisation

We run facilitated sessions for policy teams, universities, think tanks, and corporate leadership groups. Get in touch to book a session.

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