For some time I've been feeling that while the Government Types are a pretty cool feature to have, the current selection is at the same time rather bland and uninteresting. This idea focuses on Dictatorships - sounds great. Oppression and all. Fun. But very shallow.
Both the Cravers and Horatio start with the same Dictatorship government, which gives both factions +50% Dust on Systems, which is really strange for the Horatio, religiously-devout to their ultimate leader, set to beautify the galaxy, and even more so for the militarist Cravers, who would ideally like to be in a state of an endless perpetual war and the lore even states how they are incapable of trade. +50% Dust on Systems seems like a bonus the Lumeris would have, which isn't the case because they are a Republic. But let's keep it to Dictatorships:
I propose having different kinds of Dictatorship according to which ruling party is in power - below I made a short example list of how it could look like:
Militarists: Stratocracy
Industrialists: Ergatocracy
Scientists: Technocracy (alternatively "Geniocracy")
Religious: Theocracy
Pacifists: Plutocracy ...
Ecologists: ...Meritocracy ??? (see below)
The last two parties are a bit of a blunder. I put Plutocracy with the Pacifists simply because it's (somehow) the only party which is oriented towards Dust generation and economic growth. While fitting for that, a Plutocracy would likely not necessarily strongly adhere to pacifist values. Then again: the idea of a Pacifist party estabilishing an empire-wide dictatorship is similarly bewildering.
Ecologists are worse than that. Nobody really thought of an ecology-based party being in complete control, which is why I would consider to simply estabilish new terms, for example "Ecocracy" and "Pacocracy" for the Pacifists, or something along those lines.
Ideally, in addition to the flavour aspect of this, the Dictatorship government bonus could be also different per the ruling party, i.e. instead of the current static dust bonus, provide bonus production when Industrialists are in power, science when Scientists are, Dust with Pacifists, you get the deal. This would give the system a degree of flexibility.
How big (or what kind) should the bonus be is up to debate. I am doubtful that the current system is very balanced and do not know whether future changes are planned for the existing government types or not. Feel free to share your thoughts.
(Wikipedia links are added to the more standard government types in the beginning of the post - as much as I dislike citing Wikipedia, it seems to be unfortunately the best unified source available online)
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