[Discuss] A few Issues

[Samuel Knowlton]

 It makes perfect sense to me that the parent > realm would create the same 
government style in the colony that they use. Why
> would a Tyranny want to set up it's own colony as a free Democracy?

Robert,

It's not even worthy of a long discussion. Of course it makes sense that, 
generally, a colony is likely to have the same government type. But "colony" 
in BM terms is not "colony" in history, where a colony is not an independent 
realm. The only issue here is that the government is being set up by humans 
who are, ICly, the ones making the decisions. Whether or not the decision is 
the parent realm's or the first ruler doesn't matter - it could be either 
one. But it is a decision that is specific to the circumstances.

If there was never any reason for Government Type A to set up Government 
Type B in a colony then you wouldn't have this issue at all. Off the top of 
my head I remember Lasanar establishing Cathay as a colony in which they 
expressly wanted a Monarchy rather than their own Republic because they 
prized stability in the colony more than the participation of a Republic 
that they were keeping at home. There was a big debate about ICly, and that 
was the result. The game chose otherwise, and then (I think, I wasn't there 
for this part) the characters in question ended up staging a faux rebellion 
just to change their government type.

I guess you could call that powergaming, but it's to be expected when the 
game overrules rational IC behavior.