Types of Groups

These are the official classifications of political, military, and economic groups. Each type has specific rules, powers, and limitations. Players must select a type when forming a faction, company, or settlement.

🏘 1. Town (Local Civilian Settlement)

• Focus: Community, culture, peaceful growth.
• Power Source: Population, economy, alliances.
• Limitations:
  • Cannot declare war or claim territory via conquest.
  • Not sovereign—must join or align with a Nation or Empire to participate in larger politics.
• Integration Path:
  • May become a province, vassal, or autonomous region of a Nation.
  • May evolve into a Nation with size, influence, and approval.

🏳 2. Nation (Independent Sovereign State)

• Focus: Military power, governance, territorial expansion.
• Power Source: Claimed land, fortified cities, political structure.
• Capabilities:
  • Can declare war, form alliances, and engage in territorial conquest.
  • Sets laws, borders, and governance systems.
• May Elevate To: Empire (with vassals or merged regions).

👑 3. Empire (Multi-State Power)

• Focus: Large-scale governance, domination of other factions.
• Power Source: Vassal states, annexed nations, shared ideology.
• Capabilities:
  • Conducts multi-front wars and political campaigns.
  • Demands tribute or obedience from subjects.
  • Must manage internal dissent and rebellion.
• Requirements:
  • Must include at least two subordinate groups (e.g. provinces, nations, towns).
  • Must maintain active imperial cohesion.

💼 4. Corporation (Non-Sovereign Economic Power)

• Focus: Trade, services, technological development, or warfare-for-hire.
• Power Source: Infrastructure, contracts, monopolies, and soft influence.
• Capabilities:
  • Cannot declare war or claim territory under its own flag.
  • May own and operate bases, factories, or trade hubs within or leased from Nations or Empires.
  • May be contracted for sabotage, defense, manufacturing, or intelligence operations.
  • Can employ private security or mercenary forces, but not a standing army.
• Soft Power Dominance:
  • A Corporation may grow powerful enough to control or puppet entire Nations through debt, political influence, or exclusive resource control.
  • These Nations retain formal sovereignty but may be recognized by the Divine Entity as Corp-Controlled States if corporate dominance is overwhelming.
  • Corporations may fund wars, shape policy, and install leaders—but only indirectly, never through flags or conquest.
• Limits:
  • Corporations can never become sovereign states or empires in name.
  • They rely on proxy nations, contracts, and economic blackmail, not banners or borders.
  • May face resistance, rebellion, or sanctions if their control becomes too visible.

🏴 5. Guerilla Faction (Insurgent / Rebel Group)

• Focus: Sabotage, fear, rebellion, soft power.
• Power Source: Disruption, hidden bases, psychological leverage.
• Capabilities:
  • May own a single base of operations or stronghold (e.g. Sovarre).
  • May sabotage, assassinate, or destabilize—but not claim territory via conquest.
  • May conduct RP-based control through intimidation or propaganda.
• Path to Nationhood:
  • Must seize and hold a city via rebellion/siege.
  • Upon victory, may be elevated to a Nation by the Divine Entity.

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