Talk:MonsoonJR's Minecraft Server/@comment-5590986-20160104225937

I think I have a new idea to extend Cohortism (a third idea). The concept is basically called "Provincial Checks and Balances", it's not what you are thinking, it's not always about "distributing the newly subjugated or volunteered populace to immigrate to other cohorts so each cohort won't feel threatened towards another", which is practically never put into practice sadly (it would reduce rebellions on the longrun, but it would make people unhappy for a short time, but we don't have the heart to do it). Anyways, this "Provincial Checks and Balances" fixes it no matter the size of the cohort.. unless it is 75% of the country in population but that is mostly up to the government to decide on the population of each cohort. mostly.

I learned and analyzed what went wrong with the Trician system. I realized that Tricia had practically abandoned the Cohort Idea (it remains in name) and gave more (political) autonomy to the rebellious cohorts. Most of these rebellions are usually against the state itself because of it's so-called "oppression". However, to fix this, is to give more military freedom to the cohorts. Autonomy could be measured in percentage and levels (inspired by EU4), although it still remains unclear of what you get, but Autonomy is more like payment for loyalty (which is bad). Anyways, if a Cohort have at least 20% more autonomy than you, you could raid it (not grief) to reduce it to your level of autonomy (because people love raiding for supplies and competition) this is to ensure that the blame is not on the state for it's "oppression for no freedom" but their fellow man, which could be a huge psychological blow and could make the cohort give up on it's chance to have more political power and instead focus on development and conquest (also to raid other disobediant cohorts to gain back their supplies). This will does not include frontier cohorts (which cannot be raided). Ik this may have a few cons such as it could result in increasing want for isolationism but remember: it's just a CONCEPT of a disciplinary measure.

Don't worry about it as it won't affect much (unless you are powerhungry by wanting more autonomy or rebelling). It may sound sinister but it combines both leftist and rightist ideals.