I actually like Order for Venice domination, unless maybe it's a land map (in which case United Front is awesome). The problem is the happiness. Where does autocracy's happiness come from? Courthouses, castles, barracks. Don't need 'em. Only 1 or 2 barracks. Order gives an immediate +2 happiness for monuments, and then you get more for factories and labs. Now that's more like it. And then you get Iron Curtain, which works Wonders (literally) when you trade route hammers back into Venice with all your trade routes.