u/IllustratorThin4799

Im trying to make the transition from V to VI.

And im having trouble really wrapping my mind around some concepts.

For instance in VI i feel like:

> "i never have enough time to build everything"

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> "theres too much to have to build"

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> "oh its already the renisance era and i havent fought and wars yet, im only begining to build up my military"

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>" my classical era unique units are wasted now becuase its the renisance"

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>"ive spent the first couple hundred turns (epic speed) pushing out settelers and builders to snatch up land now i can start building up

So what im coming at here. Is the pacing of the game fundmentally different?

Or is my approach just wrong?

Or am i not properly building tall?

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Sub heading, for an engineered and free society 

We the People, of the modern world, recognize that society should exist and be governed for the sake of its constituent members. We recognize that as of present Government fails to plan, provide, or establish good governance and rules of order for their citizens. Governments are instituted by the people, to attempt to adress the failings of society and to solve problems of society and at behest of the populace not for polticial brinkmanship or personal gain.

We further recognize, that in a moderm state, people and trade craft have evolved to highly specialized affairs, and government should be performed giving difference to the experts of each field.

Governing bodies:

The technate.

The guilds.

The General assembly.

The Director.

The order of Judges.

The bill of rights

(Roleplay flavor)

The Guilds:

All adult members of society must belong to registered guilds. These will initially be scientists, healthcare professionals, merchants, laborers, tradesmen, farmers, security/defense , artists, priests, engineers, unemployed, beuracrats,

Guilds will be self policing and self regulating. able to enforce policy, regulations, impose fines and rules of business, for all constituent members. Guilds shall be admistered in a self designed democratic order.

The guilds must elect for themselves constituent members to attend the Technate in accorance with their seat allocation.

The Guilds shall not enact any policy, fine, punishment, regulation that violates any of the bill of rights, such a policy will be automaticaly voided at time of issuance.

The Guilds may be called to account before the order of Judges should they be challenged by two other guilds for harmful societal policies. 

The Judges may decide only on a policy by policy basis on the acts.

The Technate:

Powers:

All legislative power is to be held within the Technate. They are to be empowered to inact any legislation that does not break with bill of rights

The Technate is superior to the guilds in jurisdiction and may collectively impose ruled and policies that override or nullify guild policies.

The technate will consist of two bodies, the General Technate, and the Directorate

The general technate :

may act only in good faith, on issues brought forth on its agenda.

May only offer various reccomendations and guidlines for policy solutions.

Any measure approved by them must be enacted by the directorate before having force of law

Must elect from itself one represntative from each guild, to serve on the Directorate

Proposals must receive a simple majority to advance to the directorate.

Composition:

Each Guild will receive 10 seats in the Technate. Chosen by self prescribed democratic means.

Their shall be 10 "free-seats" additionally allocated with no guild allocation for open election.

Membership:

Each member shall serve for a maximum of 5 terms ,each term consisting of 2 years, with no more than 2 consecutive terms.

Members of the Technate must legally dissolve all assets into a blind trust overseen by the Order of Judges. Failing to do so shall constitute a federal offense 

It shall be a federal offense to receive any material bennifit to one's self or one's immediate family, while in office beyond one's salary. This shall also extend to five years after leaving office

While empanneled ,speaking, interviewing or campaigning, as a member of the Technate, all members are to be held under oath and subject to charges of perjury should they intentionally and deliberately make false or misleading statements.

Regaurds the security and defense guild, only indivuals baring the rank of officer or non commisiojlned officer may be eligible for technate election. And they may only serve at the express consent of their superior.

The Directorate:

Composition:

Is composed of one democrarically elected member from each of the guilds in the technate

Powers:

Receives policy suggestions from the technate.

They through simple majority vote may chose to inact any policy suggestion in line item fashion, upon which it becomes law.

They may not add to, remove from, or edit any policy suggestion.

They are also responsible for the executive operations of government. Derectives to be issued by simple majority vote.

The Directorate shall be empowered to, by 3/4s majority vote establish a "Director" who shall have total legislative and executive authority.

The Directorship may be disolved by a simple majority vote of the Directorate.

As the Directorate is an executive body members will serve for 5 year terms, with a maximum of two 5 year terms, at which time they must retire, and be barred from all future public office.

The Director if so established will persist until it becomes dissolved through simple majority vote of the Directorate, uniquely, the Director is not subject to term limits, and effectively is considered "removed" from the technate. He shall serve until the directorship, Dissolves the Directorship.

The general technate shall also be empowered to disolve the directorship, by simple majority once the director has served 10 years in office.

Upon dissolution, the director shall return to life as a private citizen. The director shall be banned from all public office, and from receiving any material bennifit what so ever from anyone, anytime, (to exclude inheritances) 

The formerdirector will be granted a generous lifetime pension 

The General assembly:

Composition:

The General assembly is to be composed of 500 free seats, eligible for election from any guild. Elected by democratic consensus among the nation at large.

Election shall be done by ranked choice automatic runoff ballot with each seat requiring at least 1/500th of the total votes to secure

Powers:

The General assembly is empowered to set the agenda for the Technate.

The General assembly is empowered to set the schedule for meetings of the Technate. 

The General assembly is empowered to set Salaries of the Technate.

The General assembly is empowered to dissolve the current Technate by 3/4

majority. All sitting members of the Technate are hereby rendered ineligible for any future office.

Membership:

Each member shall serve a single 5 year term after which they may not serve again.

Members of the assembly must legally dissolve all assets into a blind trust overseen by the Order of Judges. Failing to do so shall constitute a federal offense 

It shall be a federal offense to receive any material bennifit to one's self or one's immediate family, while in office beyond one's salary.This shall also extend to five years after leaving office

While empanneled ,speaking, interviewing or campaigning, as a member of the Assembly, all members are to be held under oath and subject to charges of perjury should they intentionally and deliberately make false or misleading statements.

The Director:

Powers:

If appointed the director Shall have Supreme legislative and executive authority. And be empowered to create new laws, enforce existing laws, give commands to military and security personnel. 

The Director shall not pass any legislation or executive action that infringed upon the 

Bill of rights.

The Director shall not issue any orders to security or military personel that intentionaly constitute mutiny, treason, insurrection. This is ro be considered a capital crime. 

The order of judges must by simple majority accuse the director. And by 3/4 majority convict him.

Upon conviction his directorship automatically disolves.

The order of Judges.

The order of Judges is a fixed body of 50 members. Membership to which is appointed by the Technate, with confirmation by the Assembly.

Powers: 

The order of Judges may appoint Lower Judges to enforce laws throughout the land.

The order of Judges shall rule and have Supreme authority on issues and challenges concerning the "bill of rights"

The order of Judges must issue a ruling on all appeals reaching it concerning the bill of rights.

Membership:

Membership in the order is to be lifelong, and more akin to joining a religious order. All members must divest 100% of their assets.

All members must live communally.

All members must dress communally in robes.

All members are forbidden from owning any property whatsoever, other than immediate personal property.

All members are required to live celebate lives in isolation from family.

The order is not permited to hire housecleaners, cooks, gardners, ot llr any such staff. The maintence of the orders properties are to be physicwlly performed by the members themselves

Members are permitted casual and recreational associations and friendships, but they are to be at the jurisdiction of the other members of the order

All rulings are to be based on a strict, literalist, and orignalist view of the bill of rights there is to be no reinterpretation.

It shall he to the technate and the general assembly to kodify the bill of rights

Any member at any time may resign from the order.

The Bill of Rights:

The right to freedom of speech shall exist and be absolute to the limit of provable cases of slander, nor shall this right be extended to thebintentional release or transmission of properly classified nstional secuirty information, nor to release of ones healthcare information without consent

Freedom of religion shall exist and be absolute. However No such religious practice shall ever be made cumpolsary on any citizen. 

Freedom from unwarranted search and seizure shall exist and be respected. In the event of a violation of this right the officers shall bebdischarged from punlic service, damages paid to the aggrieved, of full loss of property or 5 years officers salary which ever is higher

no cruel and unusual punishments shall exist.

The peoples right to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed upon.

No person shall be compelled to keep or board soliders.

All people shall have the right to remain silent, and not be forced to confess or testify.

There shall exist the right to a quick and fair trial. 

All criminally acxused shall have a right to trial by jury of their peers.

Except as just punishment for crime, duly convicted by peers. No person may be subject to deprivation of life, liberty or property.

In cases of emmenient demense of property no property shall be seized without fair market value compensation to the aggrieved party. This is to be done by averaging the apprasial value of the property by three local neutral real estate agents and adding a 15% markup for the inconvienace

All people have the right to engage in commerce as suits them. No person may be compelled to or forcibly barred from participating in a market. Taxes non withstanding.

Order of process:

The general election is held, from which the general assmebly is empaneled. It convenes  It refers 2 issues to the technate:

Inadequate housing supply,

Drug addiction crisis,

The guild elections are held,  The technate is empanelled from them, the technate elects the directorate, 

the technate debates policy.

 First issue inadequate housing, the labor guild rises and moves that we construct 500,000 public housing units,

To be considered the motion must be recognized by two other guilds, The artist guild and the engineers guild vote to reconize the motion for debate.

Debate proceeds round robin fashion.

the engineers present a model for cost of the project broken down by cost of materials, lumber. Steel, brick,concrete, wiring and labor, they include projections for various scale projects.

The guild of merchants and economists lodge a conditional objection stating : "the housing market is in deficit but if the government acts unilaterally to solve this problem, we may ourselves undermine the private sectors construction efforts and cause economic damage and loss of jobs, we reccomend partnering directly with and funding existing construction agencies at market rates for the project"

This objection is recognized by thr laborers guild, and by the security guild

The guild of artists raise an objection also:

"If we are to conduct this project the houses must not look like some urban tennament, mass produced to house masses, they must be well built, pretty to look at, themed with respect to our culture, and contain green spaces and gardens for recreation.

The science guild rises recognizing the artists guilds forward thinking and reccomends including rare and endagered plant species in the gardens.

The security guild rises and speaks:

"If these are to be public housing facilities it is a known statstical trend that organized crime is correlated with areas of poverty, it is therefore our reccomendation that such facilities have funded sworn agents of law and order on their premises for sake of public saftey, only in a safe community can people prosper"

The labor guild and the free seats vote to recognize this proposal.

The healthcare guild rises:

"If this is a general poverty releif measure we propose that and additional measure be proposed that we include excercise facilities, gyms along the campuses, as well as healthy options kitchens "

The measure is approved by the laborers and artists, but objections are heard from merchants and engineers about this ballooning the cost of the project. And add a proposal for a 5% sales  tax to fund it

The technate votes to advance the following policy proposals to the directorate:

"build 500,000 housing units"

"partner with and fund private construction companies to manage the build out"

"Facilities will be themed and decorated not  just concrete buildings"

"Facilities will include green spaces filled with national exotic plants and fruits"

"Facilities will include gymnasiums and healthy choices kitchens"

"Facilities will have their own sworn security staff"

"We shall institute a 5% sales tax to expire in 5 years time to pay for this program"

Atrached is cost estimates for various buildout plans

The directorate receives these policy recomendations and by simple majority vote to approve:

"build 500,000 housing units"

"partner with and fund private construction companies to manage the build out"

"Facilities will be themed and decorated not just concrete buildings"

"Facilities will have their own sworn security staff"

"We shall institute a 5% sales tax to expire in 5 years time to pay for this program"

The directorate in this instance has chosen not to enact:

"Facilities will include green spaces filled with national exotic plants and fruits"

"Facilities will include gymnasiums and healthy choices kitchens"

Upon passing by simple majority the policies become law,  the directorate as the executive office of government are now responsible for implementing them.

Not a law but for my worldbuilding guide im envisioning a color coded jumpsuit situation for people based on which guild they belong to

So i was watching some travel videos and i was really impressed with the train systems other countries (most notably japan) have

For the equivlent of like 50 bucks, you can travel from any major city to any other major city. No need for a car, no need for gas, no need for a plane ride or airport security.

And you can be there quicker than driving with highspeed rail.

And I looked at the Amtrak map and schedule. And its frankly just embarrasing. If you dont live along the eastern seaboard, or want to move more than 50mph just forget about alltogether...

So the notion hit me:

"Weve had large scale federal infrastructure projects before" the interstate highway system is a great example.

It was extremely expensive. But very few people today would question if it was a good investment. Its linked the country together economically and cultrually.

And its not like we cant afford it

Per my google search in round ballpark figures highspeed rail is about $100 million a mile

Which sounds like alot. But consider sanfrancisco to new york is like 3000 miles

Thats like 300 billion dollars

The us govt spent 7 trillion dollars in 2025.

So were talking like 1/23 of the federal budget cost. For permanent highspeed infrastructure. That wpuld cost passengers pennies on the dollar compared to air or road travel