Optimization suggestions

[Cethegus]

However, conferences take 1/8 of the time with cPickle. It used to take forever for the flips to happen, now it's bam! Victoria gets Aksum, bam! I get Berlin, etc...which helps because I can remember better who I voted for and who might vote for me if I vote for them.

That's true. I no longer have to turn down congress invites in the fear of them taking forever.