Minister of Defense must be an Admiral or General and each skill level adds −2% Upkeep to armies, ships and starbases.What are its effects, how it is chosen and how often it is replaced depends on the empire's authority. Ruler is the only council position where the councilor cannot be freely replaced.Each position can be renamed by clicking on its name. Can use the Mercantile Diplomatic StanceĬorporate governments are organized as a massive commercial enterprise that has completely supplanted the role of the state.Įach empire has a council where leaders can be appointed to give empire-wide bonuses that scale with the level of the leader.Most of the actual 'population' in such an empire consists of mindless work units who perform their designated tasks without any semblance of free will.Ī small number of semi-autonomous agents are typically employed for more specialized tasks that benefit from some degree of independent initiative. Machine Intelligences are immense artificial group minds that have been networked into a single conscious entity. Ruler has the Machine Intelligence trait.Any free individuals on planets owned by the Mind are driven away, killed, or simply treated as prey to feed the collective. When cut off from the Mind, these drones become comatose and eventually wither and die. The population has no free will, and act as an extension of the Hive Mind itself - much like the limbs of a body. Hive Minds operate as a single organism more than as a state. Imperial governments are similar to dictatorial ones, except that the throne is always inherited by a designated successor upon the ruler's death. +0.25 Max Influence from Power Projection.

+10% Resources from Jobs in Capital System.

Oligarchic governments are ruled by a small group of individuals that hold all political power.ĭictatorial governments are ruled by a single individual for life that wields absolute control over the state.

Resets Party Cooldowns when ruler changesĭemocratic governments have regular elections where all citizens can vote on who should represent them.

Resets Government Reform when ruler changes.

Authority can be changed by reforming the government unless the empire has the Under One Rule origin. An empire's authority decides how long the Ruler council position lasts, how it can be changed, what are its effects and what other bonuses the empire receives.

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