Dr. Robert Blain, professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, co-developed a board game with Bob Gill, Cooperation: The Wealth of Nations Game, as a teaching tool for his sociology classes. It teaches students, who are the end users of Cooperation, about the various paradigms of government and societal structure. Cooperation includes four levels of play: Barter is a simulation of a primitive economic system, Majority Rule models a socialist society, Making Money is a representation of a capitalist system and Autonomy is a blend of the best aspects of socialism and capitalism, the ideal society.