[X] [Main] The Census
[X] [Secondary] Restore Order
[X] [Secondary] Proclaim Glory
We are going to tear this evil out. I don't care if it's stat-inefficient or if it doesn't give us any real advantages. What we just saw was gut-wrenchingly evil and I don't want it in my civilisation. The narrative is far more important to me than the mechanics right now.
I really don't think that will help the situation of people like her, though. See:
Problem is, it's not corruption. Our civ is just too different from our neighbors for some first gen immigrants to adapt to now. Had she actually put forth a lot of effort, she would have possibly been fine, but because she was already somewhat broken by slavery in the lowlands, she didn't have the will or spirit or whatever to push herself to adapt.
What refugees like her need is education and mental health care. She was shoved into Ymaryn life without any idea how to act, and the communal nature of the society means that those who don't act right are subject to strong pressure to shape up.
Unfortunately, if an individual doesn't already know what the right way is, they'll be shoved into the margins of the culture.
It was far more then the tax collector we shouldn't have our vassal able to give us slaves at all.
I'm quite sure that for the Ymaryn officials they weren't buying slaves. Officially. Rather, they were fulfilling the royal mandate to encourage immigration, and passed on that request to our vassal.
Who promptly directed their undesirables towards the core.
Hence settlement. Need the room
Personally, with true city refunds, I'm more concerned about the red martial score. But yes, econ expansion is low.
Please, veekie, at least a single action to mitigate what we just saw. We know that when there's no corruption it stays stable. Fighting against it will lower it and keep it lowered. Doing nothing just allows it to worsen. Please. I don't want to think that nothing will change for who knows how many generations. Festival to integrate refugees better, Restore Order to directly attack the corruption, Enforce Justice to increase our law enforcement. Anything!
I don't particularly see how any of those will be of any significant help, though. The root problem isn't corruption, it is the nature of having a strongly normative culture with bronze age enforcement methods and education.
It is sad, but rather gentle in comparison to historical equivalents.
As for actions, I don't see any reason to interrupt longer terms plans.
[X][Main] Census
[X][Secondary] New Settlement - south of cataracts
[X][Secondary] Found Mercenary Company
