Anyways, factions and remember their priorities:
-Patricians
--Want: Status, and to achieve that. This means economic power, protecting their privileges, prestige and the means to attain prestige.
--Hate: Social mobility
-Guild
--Want: Wealth from Production. This means iron, cheap labor, metal, skilled labor, fuel.
--Hate: Competition. Restrictions on production.
-Traders:
--Want: Wealth from trade. This means trade dominances, trade routes and the military means to protect trade routes.
--Hate: Loss of trade dominance. Not trading something. Other people being richer than them.
-Yeomen:
--Want: Land, military power, and social advancement.
--Hate: Cities
-Priests:
--Want: Temples, Research, Research facilities, promotion of their cultural values.
--Hate: Other people's cultural values.
-Urban Poor
--Want: City infrastructure, health improvements, food, Social mobility.
--Hate: Varies(The Mob is prone to fickle whims of spite)
So putting our values into context(priests are a special case, they support all our values except when values conflict):
-Personal Stewards of Nature
--Support: Patricians, Yeomen, Priests.
--Neutral: Traders, Urban Poor
--Against: Guild
Quite simple, the patricians and yeomen base their power and status upon the possession and stewardship of the land, so they will take action to protect the land.
The guilds on the other hand are always in competition for agricultural land and resources for production.
-Greater Justice
--Support: Patricians, Urban Poor, Priests
--Neutral: Yeomen
--Against: Traders, Guild, Urban Poor
Patricians as the enforcers of the law, are in favor of it, particularly this iteration which prioritizes the community. The Urban Poor, as the primary protected party, favor it, but at the same time are also the primary victimized party.
Now the Traders and Guilds...Justice
directly impedes their goals on maximizing production and trade goods, via such things as labor standards, health standards and restrictions on slavery.
-Pride in Acceptance
--Support: Patricians, Guilds, Yeomen, Priests
--Neutral: Yeomen, Traders
--Against: Urban Poor, Priests
Patricians gain power from people and land under their control, so they always favor taking more refugees. The Guilds meanwhile favor having lots of cheap workers who don't have any choice.
The Yeomen, under their laid out interests are
conditionally in favor, when refugees progress towards acquiring new land and resettlement they love having additional rural poor to actually work the farms. But this can lead towards a perversion of the practice if the refugees wind up forming a serf class under them(i.e. look to AN's warning of your motivation for charity, if you are in it for Econ or clay rather than true charity)
Priests are in a odd spot here. While it is in our values to demonstrate charity, refugees are also the primary source of people not listening to the priests. Purity tips the scale over into opposition more often.
Urban poor never like refugees. It swells the number of urban poor, which puts pressure on their privileges and facilities, increasing disease and crime.
You can expect to see this attitude even in second generation migrants(speaking as someone in a country where a large portion of the population are second, third and fourth generation migrants, there has already been a lot of stigma in the very same people regarding new migrants).
-Division of Power
--Support: Urban Poor, Yeomen
--Neutral: Priests
--Against: Patricians, Guilds, Traders
The urban poor always support a division of power due to increased social mobility, and the Yeomen for similar reasons. The more divided the power, the more likely that they have a spot to climb into
However, the Guilds, Traders and Patricians hate it, for much the same way that large companies will oppose antitrust laws, it cuts their upper tiers from creating new higher tiers to occupy.
The priests meanwhile...well this is still a recently imported value. They hadn't integrated it yet, but it's also something that an Independent priesthood may have some difficulties with.
-Joyous Symphony
--Support: Patricians, Guilds, Traders, Priests, Yeomen, Urban Poor
--Neutral: Nobody
--Against: Urban Poor, Yeomen
Here is our socially best loved trait. Everyone likes it since it makes them happier.
However, the catch here is that generally speaking the urban poor are more likely to be found to be repeatedly disharmonious(something which the priests and patricians avoid), and the Yeomens' own independent spirit(thanks to our low connectivity) means that it can be HARD to be in symphony with the rest of the country.
-Honorable Death
--Support: Patricians, Yeomen, Traders, Priests
--Neutral: Guilds
--Against: Urban Poor
Tricky trait here. The Patricians and Yeomen, as warrior classes, generally favors it as it means personal prestige and more titles and land to go around when their rivals die. The Traders are also a prestigious, risky job, especially when sailing is concerned, pirates, disease and storms are all honorables way to die.
The guilds however, only see the lost productivity. While it makes it easier for them to recruit workers for dangerous trades, the guild focus on skilled labor makes this neutral at best, since retraining lost skill isn't cheap.
And then you have the urban poor. They see a lot of death. Disease, poor work conditions, deaths without any honor, glory or recognition, even in war, they will get the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, not the Arc of Triumph. They don't like this sort of thing.
-Philosopher Kings
--Support: Patricians, Guilds, Priests
--Neutral: Traders, Yeomen, Urban Poor
--Against: Priests, Urban Poor
The patricians like it since its another means of achieving distinction and thus personal prestige. The guilds like it because learning and innovation ties strongly into their production focus.
The priests however are conflicted. While intellectual infrastructure belongs to them, and its a core part of our religion, any trait which encourages people to ask questions about social values is by definition something they should oppose and try to make exclusive to them. We'll see how it goes yet.
And then the urban poor. To them, this is yet another form of elitism they cannot get access to. This will change of course, as education becomes more available, but currently its just advanced magic whiich they don't get to use.
-Purity
--Support: Patricians, Priests, Urban Poor, Yeomen
--Neutral: Guilds
--Against: Traders
And here we have a value which plays into native human impulses, and is thus wildly popular.
The Patricians gain a social control tool, one which they pretty much by definition will never be hit by.
The Urban Poor...one of their BIG fears is disease and a value that cuts disease is their god.
The Yeomen on the other hand are the root of nationalistic pride and sentiment. They want things to be like their place, not the other places(ironically this applies to our national level too)
The priests get a value that says "that thing you are doing, do it more!"
And then you have the traders whose job INVOLVES going to foreign lands, traveling far from where they can get reliable soap and water, bringing strange foreign ideas and goods.
They probably won't be too happy.
-Swords and Ploughshares
--Support: Patricians, Yeomen, Priests
--Neutral: Urban Poor, Guilds, Traders
--Against: Patricians
As with the Honorable Death, the warrior classes always favor anything that improves war capability, though at the same time this value represents military power outside of Patrician control and social mobility for the rural middle class, which they don't like.
The city folk don't really care yet, though if we actually use the Levy option the trait might evolve to incorporate them.
-Life of Arete
--Support: Patricians, Guilds, Traders, Yeomen, Priests
--Neutral: Nobody
--Against: Urban Poor
And elitism. As with Purity, it's a trait that basically reinforces natural human impulses. To the upper class, this validates their social status because obviously they are the best(please ignore all the 'best' who got beaten up and left in the trash). To the middle class, this is their hope and promise for advancement, that they can work hard and one day their children will be higher.
To the lower class, they KNOW they don't have the option to even try.
-Lord's Loyalty
--Support: Everyone(yes including the Againsts)
--Neutral: Nobody
--Against: Patricians, Guilds, Yeomen
The basics of the social contract. Everyone wants this to stay because it means those above must attend to those below, even as those below must be loyal to those above. Every level of society is in favor.
But this trust is fragile. It only takes trust offered in vain to taint the faith. As wedding vows go "in sickness and in health".
Thus, if it is demonstrated that you can get away with not fulfilling your part of the social contract at the top, those in the upper and middle sections would also consider the benefits of realpolitik, where they can abandon inconvenient or expensive commitments.
That took longer than I expected.
You don't make a profit by attempting to do the impossible. You go bust and someone more sensible makes more productive use of your surviving capital.
And yet they demanded we take the straits, twice, despite it not being very feasible, and the alternative being very expensive
