Examples of toposes in which the Axiom of Determinacy holds.

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I just stumbled upon the Axiom of Determinacy which is an axiom in set theory - inconsistent with the Axiom of Choice, consistent with the Axiom of Dependent Choice, that states that for every subset $A \subset \mathbb N^\mathbb N$, every game between two players of the form:

"In an alternatig fashion, each player picks a natural number $a_n$ to form a sequence $(a_0, a_1, a_2 , \dots)$. Player one wins if this sequence is an element of $A$, Player two wins if the contrary is the case."

the resulting game is decidable.

Reading the known consequences for this the first time gave me an almost bizarre feeling:

Every subset of the reals is measurable, has the Baire property and the perfect set property.

It sounds like a measure theorists dream. There are some more resources in this nice answer on overflow.

Now, I am one of those people who only really get comfortable with set-theoretic axioms when seeing an example of a topos having said property:

Are there known examples of toposes (elementary, having a natural numbers object) satisfying the Axiom of Determinacy?