CaterpillarKing
Conqueror of Cacoons
The referendum is not over. The tsar must live on! Also, we will not go down lightly if you choose to depose our fair leader. We will fight to the end.
Republic+Vassalage, Russia would be in the mercy of city-thirsty grafs ruining economy completely, desiring to conquer all other cities and colonise. In case of military emergencies, grafs would want the russian army to commit suicide just for a temporary victory that would lead to complete destruction of russian army.
Even Alexander would never accept such a system. Central authority should be strong, and of course stronger than grafs.
You didn't understood my propose. The political system would be equal to the Republicans, Republic+Representation, but we would preserve the grafts as governors or something like that. The external policy would be conducted by the Tsar-President himself and the Duma. In case of emergency the army would be in control of the Tsar, not the grafts.
It isn't realistic. We can't have grafs and tsar in the story while running republic and representation in-game. I want to be a conherence between in-game civics and IAAR participation.
EDIT: Well, we can rename president "tsar" and members of Duma "grafs"
But our economy isn't even that bad!
So allow us to remain ruling our cities and expanding our power! Let us represent our cities in Duma! We can accept a republic, but we WILL NOT allow a loss of our power, not without a Civil War!
Why you voted populists then? Cities, including yours are already represented in Duma. Kiev's representative has already signed the first bill.