[X] Yes, a woman can and should do anything a man can.
[X] 4 years, he can run for no more than 2 consecutive terms
[X] No, we must trust our People to think of what's right.
I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall. Why would the commoners in other countries support us!? This is not 18th century Europe, Warhammer is at best at the level of 17th Century Europe with some key differences outside of the steampunk and magic. There is no decently large undercurrent of a democratic movement among the middle class intellectuals of society, for quite a number of reasons. First, there was no Athens and Rome in warhammer, there are no ancient examples of the successful implementation of democratic principles for the philosophers and intellectuals of the modern age to look back upon and idealize. There is no comfortably secured middle class that can wast their time and money drinking coffee and tea in saloons all day discussing philosophy, law, government and human rights. Hell there was no Magna Carta and human rights are not even a thing beyond what the local lord says they are. And there is no America across the sea existing as proof that such a thing can work in the modern era.
We would be the freakin first which is why most of the commoners in other countries would be against us. When other people look at us they don't see a shining city on a hill beckoning freedom, that concept doesn't exist yet in warhammer. What they see are buildings damaged by fire and fighting, blood staining the walls and streets and dead bodies hanging from street posts. The two things a government is suppose to provide for its people are not justice and fairness, its stability and security and we have done quite a bit of damage to the idea that democracy can give those things to the common peasantry and middle class merchants and craftsmen. The only ones thinking of democracies in warhammer are the radical free thinkers and radical free thinkers have never had many numbers or much power even in societies that aren't paranoid and superstitious of anything new and strange. The common people of the Old World aren't going to blame the nobles for oppressing them, they are going to blame us for pissing the nobles off. And we better hope that the GM was messing with us with the idea that the recent crack down on said radical free thinkers(thanks to us) is going to drive some to Chaos because then we have to go up against the religious right opposing our existence and further poisoning the common man's opinion of us.
And as for our citizen milltia's giving us an advantage in a fight? We live in Sartosa! We are basically a hybrid of Sicily and Tortuga, the only reason none of the other city states of Tilea has never conquered it was because all the pirates living there made it not worth the effort, pirates that are no longer there. Population wise, even before the fighting and the purges we probably had some of the smallest population of any of the Tilean city-states. Not that population numbers matter that much because Tilean's prefer to use all the money they get from trade to hire out professional mercenary armies rather then use less experienced and less well trained citizen soldiers. Money we don't' have and aren't likely to have seeing as we are now persona non grata to any potential trading partner in the Old World (outside of maybe Marienburg and Barak Varr) and have to spend what we do have on fixing our infrastructure, moving our native industry to something not based on the use of slaves and trying to get our military up to standard rather then being an armed mob. The scaven fighting is not going to last forever and we are in no shape to defend ourselves when it ends and that's a state we are going to be in for a while because we will run out of money from the lack of trade!
You want to know what my plan was? My plan was for us to keep our friggen heads down till we managed to rebuild everything, move past the slave industry and train up our military to something that wouldn't be a joke to any real professional group in the Old World. Once that was done, then we push into Luccini while using our diplo to make sure the rest of the world remains thinking that this is just Tileans being Tileans and not the harbinger of a massive social and political change in the Old World. We would have kept increasing our military, researched new technologies and convinced our enemies to quarrel amongst themselves while we storm in and sweep up what's left till all of Tilea was under our control. Once Tilea was under our control then we start some massive infrastructure, industry, educational and agriculture renovations to improve the economy and standard of living for the average Tileans and indept them to us and democratic rule. By doing this we would be able to show that yes a democratic republic actually works and is a viable form of government. That's when the symbol of a city on a hill comes in, that's when the talk of democracies and republics would hit mainstream among the common people of the Old World in a positive, pro-democracy manner. And by unifying Tilea we could claim successor ship to Myrmidia's empire and use that as casus belli for taking Estalia. After that the Border Princes, then the Bad Lands, then Araby, then quarantining Nehekara and turning the Southern Sea into a Sartosan lake. By the time any of the rulers of the Old World would have relized what our ambitions were, how big of a change we were causing and the ideas and concepts we were spreading, we would have been too powerful, large and entrenched for them to do anything about other then some diplomatic grumbles.
So yes, I am very very nettled that that plan got shot down in flames all the way at the start because SV has to go for the stupid and obsessively grudge holding dwarf option even when its a very stupid thing to do! Now creating a massive and powerful Republic able to enact actual change in the Old World looks less like something that was merely difficult and challenging but doable with some hard work and luck to what very clearly looks like the CK II version of trying to play Dark Souls, without the ability to come back from the dead.
