Tropico

You, the newly installed dictator of an obscure Caribbean island, must create a life of prosperity and happiness for your people.
Build farms to feed them, tenements to house them, pubs to lift their spirits and churches to save their souls. Follow a socialist path of factories, mines, logging and fishing, or chase capitalist dollars by building resorts to lure Yanqui tourists.
Success will bring the praise of your people along with a fat Swiss bank account.
Failure? Well, there's always martial law.