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I've definitely noticed it with grand strategy games, take this with a grain of salt but I assume that it is because these kind of games let the players live their political fantasies, which I guess it's more appealing to people who want a different kind of society than the one they live under IRL. This is all just speculation though.
I personally like these games precisely because of that reason, I like building up socialist countries in Victoria 3 because that's currently the only way for me to "have a taste" of socialism, even when it's just a bunch of pixels on screen.
Pretty much this. Anyone can have daydreams or fantasies about their ideal society, but when yours involved detailed plans about train schedules, economic policies, and realpolitiks, you have some pretty strong Opinions about how things should be run.
Think also that it depends on whether the user gets the humor. Liberty Prime, the Imperium, etc. aren't things to support what they stand for at face value, yet some do.
Like, I remember a while ago seeing a thread on reddit where some dude was saying that Fallout was a parody of communism, and not capitalism, and his argument boiled down to "when government does something bad, it's communism".