I noticed this can be pre-ordered now on Steam
Here are some of his other games
http://dukope.com/He seems to have a bit of a dystopian authoritarian nightmare thing going!
It reminds me of a game that I had ages ago, it's annoying but I can't think of the title. I seem to remember you were running some sort of republic (it's not Simcity and it's not Tropico). It was one of those games that was considered interesting but flawed. I think it was more strategy than building. It'll come to me.