I went through a simulation where we had to pay taxes like the colonist did but instead with mints as candy. We would had a chosen person as king and two more as tax collectors. The king will pull a card for example, pay 2 mints if you have jeans so you would drop two in one of the tax collectors bins they carry around. I lose all my mints at the end so i knew how it felt for colonist that when broke in the taxes, plus i knew that colonist could go to jail for not paying their taxes.