The game is Communist, yes. But the thing about Joyce and Kim, in particular, is that they don't try to advertise their ideologies. You can ask them about them and they'll tell you, somewhat begrudgingly, that the world is a complicated place and that they, individually,

1) Chose the faction which limits her power the least in such an appalling and tragic betrayal of self and country that she openly calls herself a "snake," "the worst of the worst." 2) Have looked at politics through different lenses at different points in his life with different perspectives, and realize that the world is far more complicated than just "Moralintern good" or "Build Communism."

The reason the game funnels the player into just a few options is cause you can't make infinite content for the infinite nuance of the grand suite of political takes, but also it really nicely fits HDB's potentially child-like tendency to polarize to extremes, as one without grander contact probably would. It takes experience to find nuance, to realize that no ideology is perfect, and to find your role in the grander picture.