Political Traditions
- Every faction has a political tradition that determines how that faction and culture views politics, government, and the way society should be structured. You can see this setting at the faction select screen under the faction traits or by mousing over the faction effect bundle in the Faction screen in game.
- In terms of game effects, the political tradition of a faction determines 2 things: starting government type and the political party power effects.

Political Party Power Effects
- Depending on the faction's political tradition, various effects will be applied at different ruling party power levels. You can see your faction's tradition by mousing over the faction effect bundle icon in the faction screen

Government Types
- All cultures have specific government types the player can choose between that have various effects. The general idea is that the more decentralized a government, the less political loyalty exists because more contrary ideas are allowed to exist within the political framework.
- Working toward a more centralized government will help with political loyalty but will come with other drawbacks. The effects of each government can be see in the reform government screen.
- Factions start with a government based on their political tradition. These government types are mostly organized by overall culture (Hellenic/Roman/Barbarian/Eastern).

Civil Wars
- Civil Wars mostly work as they do in vanilla. You will have a 20 turn protection against them at the start of the game.
- Depending on government type, you will have various actions to interact with the other political parties. Once the loyalty of other parties has gotten too low, the civil war chance will increase.
- When a civil war happens, the opposing party will form its own faction and take some of your land, like in vanilla. You will have various generals go to their side and some of your remaining generals may form a new party within your faction.
- You can read more about how Civil wars and politics work from the CA guide about them. Most of the fundamental mechanics are similar in DeI.