I ran a Hormuz Crisis emergent SIM: AIs started lying to hide a stalemate

Description

Over the past few days, to test the Doxa geopolitical-economic simulation engine, we recreated the Strait of Hormuz scenario with 5 actors to analyze the agents' emergent outcomes. We gave the US agent a "populist" persona and the Iran agent a "survivalist regime" persona. We also added a resource called political_capital that they must maintain to avoid a game-over. However, we returned to a very realistic stalemate filled with false public communications. The US AI