>the only problem in liqouria2 politics is that the ideology distribution makes no sense
ah yes, it is the sole problem in a game where you can have an absolute monarchy where the king voluntarily swaps governments every few years because “the upper house is 30% liberal now” and even hardline reactionaries will politely step aside the moment the numbers say so. liberals don’t lobby newspapers, conservatives don’t control the officer corps, and the shoelace factory workers don’t form unions. they’re rigid, pokémon-card ideologies with fixed stances on trade, military, and social reforms, and they’ll happily tank your entire industry because the liberal party thinks subsidizing factories is against their moral high ground. pops can cheerfully vote in communists one election, fascists the next, and then calmly accept monarchy restored the year after, all without a single riot in the streets or assassination in parliament even if 90% of your peasants have never traveled ten miles from their village. meanwhile, social change is driven less by social struggle than by imaginary militancy threshold, peasants aren’t rioting because their kids are starving, they’re rioting because the tooltip says “+0.02 militancy per month due to toothpick shortage”. A single reform adding “Trinket Healthcare” instantly calms down half your population, because nothing soothes 19th-century peasants like the abstract promise of free band-aids.