The Sims is set in a world where buying things is always awesome and everybody is twenty-five until they're sixty. The Sims is loaded with assumptions about the way that people function and about the way that success in life is gauged, but it feels churlish to point them out because it's all just a bit of fun, isn't it. The series is softly apolitical in the way that a Barbie house is apolitical, and by that I mean that it isn't apolitical at all. There's a blithe naivety to the way that life is presented in The Sims that is either comforting or a little disturbing depending on your mood.
