Glorious Leader

I found out someone made a video game called Glorious Leader where you play as Kim Jong-Un riding a unicorn. It’s real. You can download it for PC or mobile right now.

The premise does all the work by itself. There’s no irony needed, no setup—it’s just Kim Jong-Un, a unicorn, a game ostensibly about bringing peace and human rights to North Korea. The absurdity arrives fully formed, complete. If I tried to write that as a joke, it wouldn’t land the same way, because jokes need structure and punchlines. This just is what it is.

That’s where the actual comedy lives—not in the game itself, but in the fact that it got made. Someone pitched this to other people and those people said yes. Artists sat down and drew Kim Jong-Un on a unicorn. Programmers wrote the code. It went through testing and approval and release cycles. The entire machinery of game development was invested in finishing this specific absurdity.

And now it just exists, downloadable, real, sitting in app stores like any other game. You can download it. Some percentage of people presumably have. It’s out in the world.

Sometimes reality is absurd enough that you don’t need to do anything but acknowledge it’s there.