Better yet, the biggest losers of all are those oil-producing states that need high prices to sustain their economies.

Clear signs are emerging that the twin engines that have sustained the economy in recent years - the high street and the housing market - are feeling the effects.

Along with reducing emissions, the player must also balance the production and consumption of electricity, water, food and garbage while sustaining the economy.

Subsequently, with large expansion of sheep farms, this export trade has sustained the economy of the country substantially.

And since the housing bubble isn't coming back, the spending that sustained the economy in the pre-crisis years isn't coming back either.