Apologies for popping over from ancient Rome just to ninja your response. :)
I’m very much enjoying watching this, keep it up everyone.
Without having read the rules, I can see a number of mechanics that are obviously inspired by and improve upon those of Republic of Rome. It’s still not clear to me exactly why players vote as they do though; that’s probably because the role the player factions perform seems very odd to me. Are they attempting to represent anything? It feels a bit like playing a fantasy football team.
I’m interested in playing in the next game; I might have tried to join this one if I had had the brain space at the time to absorb the rules.