GOG.com has a special "Shutdown Promo" underway for those government employees that are affected by the shutdown of the United States' Government.

For those that aren't employees, you can save 50% on select titles. If you are a government employee, simply shoot an email off to thanksobama@gog.com with a picture of you holding the official furlough letter you received. If you get those emails in prior to October 11 at 12:00 (ET), GOG will give you all of the titles included in this Shutdown Promo for free.
The Guild: Gold Edition is a great place to see where the term "Machiavellian Politics" originated from. If you're looking to find a land where earning power was the key to success in the political arena, look no further. Meanwhile, in Capitalism Plus and Capitalism 2, you can get the best economic sims that money can buy half off and see for yourself how a demand economy functions. Tropico Reloaded is 50% off as a reminder of what can happen when governments go awry, and Alpha Centauri (with the Alien Crossfire expansion!) has more different styles of governments modeled than you can shake a stick at. So, really, these games are a quick lesson in civic government. Because we're concerned for you guys.

There has been a lot of furor over health care in America leading up to this shutdown, and we think it's a shame so many people are upset about medicine and how to treat each other. To help further our educational mission for this promo, we figured we'd put Theme Hospital in the sale as well, because that way you can judge for yourself just how tricky it can be to balance the needs of sick patients against limited budgets. Finally, for reasons entirely unrelated to who may or may not have been involved in shutting down the US Government, we also appear to have Redneck Rampage on sale 50% off.

That's awfully nice of the GOG.com crew for doing this, though I can't help but remark that they really should have made the email "thanksgop@gog.com" but who am I to tell them what to do.