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So, after fiddling around with several failed games, I got a win. I was playing as Fear/Deep.

Fear is Freedom!
I started with the Grand Duchy of Prat, which was a compact middle power (four locations and 60 power) on the edge of the big continental Empire of Deux, with a single big archduke governing a metropole on the coast, and a couple of smaller nearby duchies to snack on. Well, if the map seed was going to be that obliging...I started infiltrating the metropole with a deep cult while my vampire and an enthralled agent worked over the rest of the lords, and I took advantage of their fear of the Empire to turn a bunch of namby-pamby pacifists into a proper war faction. I did not madden anyone in this duchy! Instead, I got them to 50% infiltration and shadowed them till they broke. Once everyone except the archduke was shadowed and broken, I finished infiltrating him and made a Dark Hierophant to enthrall him.

Subjugation is Liberation!
On the noble side of things, I had my hiero and my agent (now a knight) schmooze up the lords a bit to get everyone on the same page, work the duchy to Offensive Stance and go charging at the next-door duchies. That wasn't a complete success, but I got most of the first duchy (one fiefdom captured with its lord dead somehow, and another destroyed one that I could recolonize) and destroyed the second duchy (one hold) - but the latter rebuilt and I decided it wasn't worth messing with again, especially with my lords hunkering down into Defensive Stance all the time. Meanwhile, I built up a couple of Deep Cults on the sides of the Empire, maddened the Deux Empress and stirred up trouble for her with a couple of lords, and pretty soon the Empire flew apart in a big, chaotic rebellion. Perfect. I didn't even have to ask my lords to take offensive stance and target the Empire, they did that for me - I just was the one to call the war vote. Boom. When the dust settled, the Empire was gone, I'd eaten a chunk of the West and there were a whole buncha pieces churning around. I targeted a next-door Grand Duchy and declared war just after a bunch of the other shards vassalized under it. Well, more for me. After that point, the world panic was starting to rise and everyone feared Prat's shadowy nobles already, so I went "what the hell" and declared the Dark Empire. Then I killed my Hierophant.

Contradiction is Truth!

So now the world is actually taking evil seriously. The Grand Duchy of Chaler in the north started voluntarily absorbing some vassals on the other end of the map and got big enough to declare a Lightbringer Ritual. I herded my nobles into a war with them (by that point it was like herding cats - everyone was worried about the Kingdom of Avees, which had taken most of the east of the old Empire) and raised the Deep Ones against the Kingdom. The fishfrogs weren't too effective, but they had Chaler's armies flanked while Prat took the kingdom, and I ended up with all of Chaler either ruined or conquered. Unfortunately, then my armies started attacking the Deep One units for no reason. Sigh.

Avees triggers the Lightbringer Ritual now. This time, though, I don't have to do anything because they break out into a civil war without my intervention and shatter into pieces. Then the Duchy of Avees (one of the shards) becomes the Avees Guardians, vassalizes everyone back and starts another Lightbringer Ritual. Well, that was productive. However, I'm too distracted with a lot of factionalization in my Dark Empire and risking a civil war, and I have to bring all that under control through some careful socializing and vote manipulation to rebuild the Emperor's faction. (I have too many unshadowed nobles right now from my conquests, and the wrangling I had to do to get the war in the North going had divided my lords.) So while my agent is holding the Dark Empire together, I madden the King, then send a vamp to shadow him. One revolution later, the Avees Guardians are replaced by the Kingdom of Pues holding all of their territory. Well, at least the Lightbringer ritual is sto...

...Another Lightbringer Ritual.

Fortunately, I have my lords together by this point, so I target them, declare war, and conquer the place. After a bit, this gives me enough shadows for a win.

Well, in the LCS, once the country is awakened to its True Liberal Nature, nobody will say anything Conservative, so restrictions on free speech won't be necessary. Until then, they can support free speech laws while violently shutting down the Conservative media.

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Bride - the bride at a wedding. Appears in church and in church sieges. Wears an expensive suit and usually has seduction skill. Conservative.
Groom - the groom at a wedding. Appears in church and in church sieges. Wears an expensive suit and usually has seduction skill. Conservative.

I can't help but feel that because people who get married are conservative (meaning this version of Liberals are Anti-religion secular paradise as opposed to separated church and state freedom of religion secular paradise) that they should absolutely not have any seduction skill.

They should be the typical stereotype of married couples who still don't know how the reproductive system works

More to the point, if they're just married, then they saved themselves for marriage like good Conservatives. Once married, conservatives are very much in favor of "goodsex," as 1984 put it.

Hm. Should Pollution/Nuclear Power/Genetic Modification be tied into this mod somehow as well?

I also think mutants should have a chance of starting with Powers, for obvious reasons.

And one thing: Why does the player lose the game if TV dies off and the LCS hasn't allied with them? Shouldn't TV just die and the secret war storyline become impossible to prosecute? (For example, if the LCS has decided to eliminate TV themselves.)

If the LCS start using Guy Fawkes masks as a trademark, then any LCS member can be, through the proper legal channels (Conservatives love loopholes) charged with the actions of any LCS member who also acted behind the mask. Essentially, it's either a RICO case (Racketeering, the charge you get against your founder if one of hir subordinates rats hir out) or a "gang-related crime" case (which, depending on how the law currently reads, is essentially a blank check).

Besides, masks should be a trademark and a way to increase the LCS' cool factor, not a way to actually hide your face.

I personally think that the Back Alley Clinic should cost money (though not as much as the Hospital) and be risky. They're an illegal body-chop-shop, after all.

Also, I like the idea of the University Hospital refusing individuals referred to their emergency rooms without paying at C.

Jack Chick must be liberalized.