Did anyone ever tried to analyse the world of Papers Please from a marxist point of view? Is Arstotska really a socialist country? Something akin to a late USSR or modern Belarus? Or some sort of social-fascist state? Does imperialism exist in this world, and if yes, where the imperial core is supposed to be?
"papers, please" is, like "beholder" 1, 2 and 3, "organs please", etc, are all directly inspired, without a doubt, by "1984", the book. Said book has explicit anti-communist propaganda, just like most depictions of "communist authoritarianism" in liberal western media. In my experience, they are all basically the same, if there is an marxist analyses of 1984, you have an analyses on all of these games
Having a quick look at the papers please wiki, most countries are likely based on real world nations."Impor" is probably a imperial japanese microstate, obristan is boring nation where spoilers you can escape to in one of the endings, antegria and republia are microstate dictatorships fighting each other. Aparently republia has its own game by the same game developer. Kolechia looks like arztotzka, but "worse". The united federation is probably based on either the united nations or the united states.
Honestly, not much to analyse, there is not much to work with in those games. I nowadays just find then boring.