Unemployment Simulator 2018 [video]

FWIW, this game was the author's MA thesis defended last year at the Estonian Academy of Arts: https://eka.entu.ee/api2/file-65881

(OP is not related to the author in any way. I just really liked the extra dark humor of this whole project. Might indeed be a great coping mechanism in a situation like this. And executing it with such perfection is also very... Finnish. :)