This game is a gem. Instead of being a Cities: Skylines clone with a socialist theme, it instead takes mechanics from the likes of Factorio and puts it into a city builder, and it actually makes sense. You can make your towns and/or cities look good, but what matters most is if they're functional or not. You need to produce and deliver goods, extract resources, etc.

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You are put in charge of a planned economy, socialist, 25x25km backwater state, and it is your job to turn it into a self-sufficient, Marxist-Leninist utopia.

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It's better if I give an example:
Let's say you want to build an oil refinery to make fuel. To build it you'll need resources, and for those you need a construction industry set up (If you don't have those, you can import resources and foreign labor but it'll cost you a lot). Now that you have a refinery you'll need oil, and you get it with oil drills. To transport that oil, you'll need pipes, and for those you'll need pumps (if too far away), and depending on how far you oil drills are, you'll need trains or trucks to be more efficient. All that requires power, which needs a power plant, and that power plant has its own production chain.

The tutorials give you a good grasp of the basic systems in place, but you'll have to figure it out by trial and error how to perfect them.

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They get the job done. Not good, not bad. It has a good artstyle, so the graphics won't "age" like in other titles.

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My latest republic (what maps are called) has fully green energy. Without mods, this would've been extremely hard to pull off, cause in the vanilla game there are only nuclear plants (hard production chain), wind turbines and solar power (unreliable). I installed some hydroelectric and geothermal plants into the game and now it's possible to use 100% green power. Beware that there are OP mods as well, such as infinite resource miners and such.

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This game is insanely fun. It doesn't have any political biases or anything of the sort, it's just a fun, addicting, extremely well thought out game. The devs put a lot of love into it and it shows.

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Sidenote:
As a socialist myself, I'm very biased toward any socialist games or games with socialism in them, but this one is the only one that truly shows how a planned economy works. Even if you're not a leftist like myself, I strongly recommend this game to anyone who is interested in economics and/or history.

Cheers, and don't forget your drink, comrade.