Obvious answer is "an excel sheet" or "don't" but tbh I play alot and it makes me feel like a weirdo 
The best I got is that it kinda reminds me of a more strategic sim city, but with a world map. You have a bunch of little people like sims and you control their lives by deciding things like taxes, what the country builds, and what the laws are. Oh, and you can be an imperialist colonizer and invade other peoples countries 
An economic and political strategy game set in the Victorian period? Grand strategy with a focus on economy and politics? Fun?
