What about a civ1 democracy game ?
Here are the rules i propose:
Whenever a science is discovered, the citizens/players would vote so as to determine those variables of playing:
1. the new science to research (among those directly researchable)
2. the percentage tax/science (for what remains of trade once lux is determined)
3. the approbation rating: >75% or >50%, id est "we love king" or not (here, lux is determined)
4. the percentage military/improvements/wonder of our civilization "Mfg goods" (== shields)
5. the wonder to build (many cities may build that wonder with caravans, the percentage of cities being determined by "4." )
6. the type of governement
7. if we sould be at war or not with each known foreign civilization
About the questions 1,3,5,6,7, the majority would determine the answer.
About the question 2 and 4, the answer would be a mean/average.
Here's an example of what could propose a citizen in 4000BC:
1. Bronze working
2. science=100%
3. approabtion=50%
4. military=100%
5. wonder=none
6. (no choice here: only despotism available)
7. (no choice here: we met no one)
The citizen could debate in this thread before voting.
Two citizen should be elected to accomplish these two functions:
1. strategus:
* effectively plays the game according to the will of the people, as it (the will of the people) is published by the epistates
* decides on moving units and receiving emissaries
* when a science is discovered, stop playing, saves the game, writes the sciences proposed by the game, post here a civil*.map and a civil*.sve (a saved game) so that every citizen can study the situation, and opens the debate
2. epistates:
* closes the debate with a post after the legal limit of time and opens the vote
* closes the vote with a post after the legal limit of time, then publish the results in another post
If you want to become a citizen, post here and tell us:
1. when (in civfanatics time [GMT+2]) you can debate and vote
2. if you would like to be strategus, or epistates, or just citizen
3. if you agree/disagree with these rules
4. which level of difficulty you would like this game to be played
5. on which map: random, earth, customized
6. on which civ1: dos, win, mac
7. what you would suggest for the name of our civ, its leader, its cities
As "après le pain, l'éducation est le premier besoin du peuple", we could play civilization quiz between two votes - id est while the strategus is playing civ.
Here are the rules i propose:
Whenever a science is discovered, the citizens/players would vote so as to determine those variables of playing:
1. the new science to research (among those directly researchable)
2. the percentage tax/science (for what remains of trade once lux is determined)
3. the approbation rating: >75% or >50%, id est "we love king" or not (here, lux is determined)
4. the percentage military/improvements/wonder of our civilization "Mfg goods" (== shields)
5. the wonder to build (many cities may build that wonder with caravans, the percentage of cities being determined by "4." )
6. the type of governement
7. if we sould be at war or not with each known foreign civilization
About the questions 1,3,5,6,7, the majority would determine the answer.
About the question 2 and 4, the answer would be a mean/average.
Here's an example of what could propose a citizen in 4000BC:
1. Bronze working
2. science=100%
3. approabtion=50%
4. military=100%
5. wonder=none
6. (no choice here: only despotism available)
7. (no choice here: we met no one)
The citizen could debate in this thread before voting.
Two citizen should be elected to accomplish these two functions:
1. strategus:
* effectively plays the game according to the will of the people, as it (the will of the people) is published by the epistates
* decides on moving units and receiving emissaries
* when a science is discovered, stop playing, saves the game, writes the sciences proposed by the game, post here a civil*.map and a civil*.sve (a saved game) so that every citizen can study the situation, and opens the debate
2. epistates:
* closes the debate with a post after the legal limit of time and opens the vote
* closes the vote with a post after the legal limit of time, then publish the results in another post
If you want to become a citizen, post here and tell us:
1. when (in civfanatics time [GMT+2]) you can debate and vote
2. if you would like to be strategus, or epistates, or just citizen
3. if you agree/disagree with these rules
4. which level of difficulty you would like this game to be played
5. on which map: random, earth, customized
6. on which civ1: dos, win, mac
7. what you would suggest for the name of our civ, its leader, its cities
As "après le pain, l'éducation est le premier besoin du peuple", we could play civilization quiz between two votes - id est while the strategus is playing civ.
This let me think... Oops, i forget to say i'd also like to join ! 
So, why torturing each other and ourselves ?
