The number of independent provinces continue to shrink (now at 13) someone or something is grabbing them and the pressure builds as space dwindles. Mali of AI C'tis now holds 16 provinces, has a large income, vast dominion, and the most powerful army in the game. What will happen next? I can't stand the suspense.
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Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, and scorn all other men.
-Emperor Septimius Severus, to his sons shortly before his death, quoted in Dio Cassius (77.15.2).