If Playground Else Crossfire

import random

def main():
    # Stage 1: Initial peace terms ("playground")
    peace_terms = ["children laughing", "farmers harvesting", "markets bustling", "schoolbells ringing"]

    # Stage 2: Early warnings ("society's anxiety")
    warning_signs = ["tense negotiations", "border conflicts", "journalists silenced", 
        "arms shipments arriving"]
    
    # Stage 3: Conflict begins ("violent streets")
    full_on_war = ["families separated", "hospitals burning", "mass graves dug", 
        "bullets whizzing through playgrounds"]

    # Stage 4: Aftermath ("only refuge")
    aftermath_terms = ["empty playgrounds", "broken ceasefires", "orphans weeping", "war crime trials"]

    # Hope terms (can appear in later stages)
    hope_terms = ["peace talks restart", "diplomats arrive", "peace commission formed"]

    # Initialize poem with peace terms
    poem = peace_terms.copy()
    stage = 1  # Tracks progression from peace to war
    vetoes = 0

    print("UNSC PEACE PROCESS SIMULATOR")
    print("\nEach veto removes protection. After 2 vetoes, warnings appear.")
    print("After 4 vetoes, conflict erupts. After 6, we see the aftermath.")

    while True:
        # Occasionally show hope in later stages
        if stage >= 3 and random.random() > 0.25:  # 70% chance hope appears in Stages 3 & 4
            hope = random.choice(hope_terms)
            if hope not in poem:
                poem.append(hope)
                print(f"\nHOPE: '{hope}' appears")

        # Get user input
        user_input = input("\nPress Enter to veto (Q to quit): ").upper()
        if user_input == "Q":
            break

        # Ensure only peace terms and hope terms are vetoed
        remaining_peace = [t for t in poem if t in peace_terms or t in hope_terms]

        if not remaining_peace:
            print("\nNo peaceful terms left to veto.")
            break

        # Choose a term to remove
        term_to_remove = random.choice(remaining_peace)
        poem[poem.index(term_to_remove)] = "[vetoed]"
        vetoes += 1
        print(f"\nVETO {vetoes}: Removed '{term_to_remove}'")

        # Check stage progression
        if vetoes == 2 and stage == 1:
            poem.extend(warning_signs[:2])
            stage = 2
            print("\nWARNING SIGNS APPEAR")

        if vetoes == 4 and stage == 2:
            poem.extend(full_on_war[:3])
            stage = 3
            print("\nCONFLICT BEGINS")

        if vetoes == 6 and stage == 3:
            poem.extend(aftermath_terms)
            stage = 4
            print("\nAFTERMATH PHASE")
            break

        # Display current situation
        print("\nCurrent situation:")
        print(" ".join(poem))

    # Show final results
    print("\nFINAL RESULT:")

    if stage == 4:
        print("The playground is now a battlefield.")

    elif stage >= 2:
        print("We traded peace for crossfire.")

    else:
        print("The birds still sing... for now.")

    print(f"\nTotal vetoes cast: {vetoes}")

    if vetoes >= 4:
        print("The violent streets won.")

    elif vetoes >= 2:
        print("No refuge was built in time.")

    else:
        print("The saints kept their playground.")

main()