Tropico 5 is a humorous, tongue-in-cheek city-building and political simulation game developed by Haemimont Games and published by Kalypso Media. Players assume the role of "El Presidente," the absolute dictator of a remote Caribbean island nation, tasked with guiding their country from colonial times into the modern era while balancing the economy, pleasing rival political factions, and pocketing wealth in a Swiss bank account.