Politics

🚧 In progress — design gap.

Politics is the institution-meme view of the living world: governance, law, legitimacy, power, diplomacy, war between states, territory, and the rise and fall of polities.

Foundations already in place

• Institution memes gate organisational forms (guild, bank, standing army, coinage) — they gate which faction types can exist.
• Factions are the agents that act (the other agent type is the individual).
• Long-term bonds are mini-factions (marriage, apprenticeship, partnership are small compact factions), reusing the faction machinery.

To design

• Governance models and how legitimacy/power are represented and contested.
• Law and enforcement.
• Diplomacy between factions and states; alliance, vassalage, war.
• Territory and control.
• How players found, grow, and lead factions and states — see Lead & Administer and Fight & Wage War.