I am playing my first game with the Horatio, and while the Religious were the leading party in a dictatorship, I suddenly was in a state of anarchy for one turn (around turn 90) and now the Scientists have taken over (without me being able to participate in an election); still in a dictatorship. Is that supposed to happen? I kind of like it, but an explanation as to why it was happening eludes me. At that time the Religious did not have many representatives and a couple of systems had an increasing rebellion level, but the Scientists have even less representatives. What's the reasoning behind this if it is intentional?

There is a problem with dictadorships since they have 3x times the penalty of having members of other parties without politics on the senate so basically at turn 20 your approbal will go to the floor. 

solrac137 wrote:

There is a problem with dictadorships since they have 3x times the penalty of having members of other parties without politics on the senate so basically at turn 20 your approbal will go to the floor. 

Well, yes, but that is manageable and kind of the point with a dictator.

But I do not understand why I get this one-turn anarchy and the change in the leading political party while the government form stays the same. It just happened again eight turns later, now the Religious have taken over.

@AngelOfAraxis Hacking was introduced two years after I wrote the original post, but thanks anyway. I appreciate you trying to help! :-)

I suspect it was a bug or at least unintended behaviour back then, never happened to me in the last years.