Abstract: The issues of applying simulation practices in both state and municipal management are of interest to the scientific community in Russia and worldwide. This study presents both theoretical and practical research of the corporate researches in the field of institutionalized simulation practices. We have studied the intentionality process of a social action in the development of the society. The study includes data of sociological research “Simulation practices in municipal management: their essence, mechanisms and social consequences” as well as its interpretation subject to the provisions of a social science. Based on the study a simulation orientation of the municipal bureaucracy is revealed. It has been found that the simulation images spreading in the modern society result in strengthening the process of people escape from the reality to visually pleasing, hedonistic and at the same time spiritually inauthentic worlds having arisen from the simulacra and serving as a space for game practices. Researchers state that game practices have a range of destructive effects on the state, municipality, society and an individual (including the identity of an official).