bread and circuses

Apologies if these are basic/dumb, I did search the forums and read the Loyalty Guide but if these questions have been answered already, I could not find the info. In the in-game Wiki, when it describes Bread & Circuses as exerting pressure for 9 tiles, but the amount is lessened by 10% per...

In a previous thread, I posed a question about alternatives to democracy, but ultimately the discussion wasn't able to move beyond assertions that democracy tends to make society better or rhetorical questions about what could be better than democracy. So let's re-examine the topic from a...