User Guide

CONTROLLING SOCIETY
CHAPTER 5
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CALL OFF VENDETTA
You request the other faction leader call off his or her vendetta against a
third faction.
REQUEST VOTE
You request that the other faction leader support you in an upcoming coun-
cil session. Often such support comes at a steep price.
TERRITORY VIOLATION
You demand that the other leader immediately remove all his or her units from
your territory.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
Your relations with any other faction at any given moment depend on a num-
ber of factors, including your social choices, your proximity to their territory,
your military power, and of course your reputation and behavior during prior
diplomatic communications. When a faction leader is in communication, you
are given a one-word summary of that faction’s attitude towards you and of
their reported military preparedness.
Mood Might
(best to worst)(strongest to weakest)
Magnanimous (Submissive*) Unsurpassed
Solicitous Potent
Cooperative Formidable
Noncommittal Sufficient
Ambivalent Wanting
Obstinate Anemic
Quarrelsome Feeble
Belligerent
Seething