Jordan: Thanks for your comment. I hope you give us more feedback. Axi is correct: the power of each entity is variable, so you'll get the effects you're looking for. In fact, how much power the church has depends on things like the Importance of Religion attribute of ethnic groups, as Cesaire says.

and welcome to the project!

Concerning the worker's PB, I insist that we should include the capability of appointing them political power. Historically this only happened during the short terms of the proletarian revolutions, where the nobility and capitalists were suppressed (Paris Commune - 1870, Russian Soviets 1917-1921), Catalonia 1936) and replaced by ruling formations consisting explicitly of the working class or were at least forced to grant more political power to both the greater public and to the working class in particular, in order to appease them (France 1848-1850, where the king was replaced by a constitutional convention, where all social classes were represented; however there was the "Luxemburg committee" instituted, which was the instrument of the working class for creating legislation and institutions that would benefit the working class in particular. Of course this commitee lost it's power quickly, it's members were all arrested with various pretexts and it was ultimately abolished after the June 1848 revolt.)

So it's not only in Marxist revolutionary theory that the "dictatorship of the proletariat" is introduced; it is more or less existant in every society with class-conscient workers. Labor is the most important factor of production (because it is the only one that has it's own free will) and when it acts coherently, it can wrench a big portion of power out of the hands of the other classes. Even in our societies, a successful general strike can bring a government to it's knees and dictate policies; this sort of thing is happening right now in my country, since a very strict insurance law was introduced by the government.

I know that these things I have recited are not new to you, but it's the first thing that struck my eye 9wht else would it be? )

Oh and besides, I'm for the scientists power too, as an option for the scenario builder. Hail to the illuminati!