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In trainingPublic policy

PolicyGym

Reason like a permanent secretary.

Policy is judged in hindsight on outcomes and built in the moment under uncertainty, political pressure, and binding constraints. PolicyGym puts you on the desk of a senior civil servant working a live submission: design the regulation, allocate the budget, weigh the distributional cost. K2 grades the reasoning a permanent secretary actually grades — constraint mapping, counterfactuals, distributional honesty, second-order effects, and the institutional realism that distinguishes a usable submission from an essay.

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The setting

The ministerial submission — minister wants it by 4pm.

Sample scenarios

01Designing a windfall tax with minimal chilling effect on investment
02Allocating a fixed health budget between prevention and acute care
03Phasing in a carbon levy without breaking the low-income consumer

Graded on

Dim 01

Constraint mapping

Dim 02

Distributional honesty

Dim 03

Counterfactual reasoning

Dim 04

Second-order effects

Dim 05

Institutional realism