To be fair, we do have Pilgrimage dominance and I suspect that means Mylathadism is now spreading wildly beyond our control. I would not be surprised to discover the Mountain Horse, the Harmurri, or random tribes of steppe nomads had been converted.
It would be very funny to happen to the Trelli in fact.
Note the traits:
-Syncretic - Accelerates spread, increases schism risks. Its easy to adopt a syncretic faith because it'd just go in and tell everyone "what you believed was Right but not Complete, let us show you the Truth".
-Charity - Belief that the rich should pay for the poor and the poor should pay for the poorer. This is a
stubborn trait, because it means that any state adopting it's tenets is unlikely to lose Stability from environmental events.
-Independent - The faith maintains it's own private stack of infrastructure.
What happened here was then, the Syncretic faith hit a God-King state(must have picked the idea up from the Khemetri since the HK is obssessed with Stability), raised Religious Authority to Red, and then Independent kicked in.
Here's hoping they can build one? Maybe we'll get an option to send them experts and materials.
I'm not sure we want to. Unless you want to give people access to Catamarans.
They'd build one I bet, if the peace holds, they're almost certainly going to be building a port in the straits of Trell, opposite the Trelli.
They could also build a Governor's Palace and leave us with only a two secondaries to use due to overcentralization penalties; do you think they'll do that? It's exactly the same thing.
They have actually risked that before in pursuit of a quest, before we revised our government system with Iron Age Law.
Quests and factions want what they want.
If they start acting in that way generally, we just lose, full stop. We have to assume that was a rare or one-time event or there's just no point to any of this.
Its not supposed to be common. AN said it was the product of a bad roll that the Patricians have decided we MUST have this.
Or you know, one of them looked north and thought "Too quiet"
'On fire' is a bit much. We'll start eating into unsustainable forests, and probably have some people question whether we need to restrict ourselves so tightly. It almost certainly won't be an existential threat. That said, I'm voting for a Forestry policy.
The problem is mostly the questioning. Some precedents we can't afford to set.
Anyway, since there's a hot topic(and the policy arguments had been repeated to death with no budging). Lets assess in the theoretical case that we decide to trigger a Reform chain right now, on top of overcentralization, potential Wealth crash and monotheism being a headache.
Phase 1: Identifying the problem.
-Identifying causes(Required one or more Hunt Troublemakers, may identify one or more of the following). Bolded for likely to be exposed, underlined for unlikely to be detected or hidden by vested interests:
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Poor enforcement of legal standards to unethically extend half-exile terms.
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Unequal enforcement of legal system to excessively punish trivial crimes for low status individuals while giving the elite a slap on the wrist.
--High recidivism of half exile population.
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High demand for unpleasant labor(garbage disposal, waste disposal, corpse disposal)
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High demand for hazardous labor(tailings handling, ash handling, disease handling)
--High demand for cheap labor(everything)
Phase two: Addressing problems
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Poor enforcement of legal standards to unethically extend half-exile terms.
--Required: More Roads, more Palaces, more Temples, more Enforce Justice, more Centralization, more Religious Authority.
--Possible outcomes:
---Sentence terms standardized for standard crimes.
---Increased oversight for legal judgments and extending sentences. Implementation of judging panels for severe offenses or punishments.
---Standardization of appeal process
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Unequal enforcement of legal system to excessively punish trivial crimes for low status individuals while giving the elite a slap on the wrist.
--Required: Low power of social elites(Patricians, Yeomen, Guilds), high power of commoners(Urban Poor), high power of moral guardians(priests)
--Possible outcomes:
---Nothing remotely likely to solving it happens, the Patricians are hardly going to legislate themselves OUT of power are they?
---House of Commons?
-High recidivism of half exile population.
--Required: Good luck with event rolls, good decisions on event rolls
--Possible outcomes:
---Corrective justice is a fairly difficult concept even in modern times, but it's possible to evolve Justice value in this way.
---We could just come up with the theory of Heritable Sin, because the evidence will back it up that the children of criminals are likely to become criminals, which would probably not be good for us.
---Experimentally disproving heritable sin would require unethical experiments with forced separation of the children of migrants and criminals for reeducation, and would spur significant unrest.
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High demand for unpleasant labor(garbage disposal, waste disposal, corpse disposal, leather processing)
--Required: Improved work efficiency, increased pay(in cash or in lost labor)
--Possible outcomes:
---Convert skilled unpleasant labor to paid labor. Costs rise slightly. Innovation increases slightly
---Convert all unpleasant labor to paid labor. Costs rise a lot. Innovation increases slightly.
---Acquire alternative labor. Debt slavery is an example, where instead of forcing people into crime to meet the demands you could force people into poverty then make them do work they don't want.
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High demand for hazardous labor(tailings handling, ash handling, disease handling)
--Required: Improved work safety, increased pay(in cash or in lost labor)
--Possible outcomes:
---Convert skilled hazardous labor to paid labor. Costs rise slightly. Innovation increases slightly. Risks lowered.
---Convert all hazardous labor to paid labor. Costs rise a lot. Innovation increases slightly. Risks greatly lowered
---Acquire alternative labor. Debt slavery is an example.
-High demand for cheap labor(everything)
--Required: Increased iron production. Increased mechanization
--Possible outcome:
---Cheap migrant labor
---Cheap debt slavery
---Push to discover alternative power sources(not very likely though)
You know, this is usally the sort of thing I'd be beelining for because Social Enrichment, but I'm honestly not confident in our ability to ride this while dealing with all the other shit that's still on fire and already overcentralized.
Because some of these goals are literally unattainable unless we spawn Geniuses in hordes.
