There are two ideas in play towards that.

One is the idea of JUDCO from the SIMSOC game; a collection of players charged with interpreting any rules that seem unclear.

The other is the idea of General Hosting Corp "shares" as "Political Capital", so that like DUNE's Landsraad council of Houses, various galactic diplomacy things can be settled by vote.

There was actually a DUNE-game rulebook online once upon a time that maybe I can find a link to where some Houses would sell some of their votes, and the percent of total possible votes (minus any against-votes of course) your motion got was its percent chance of passing. That seemed an interesting idea.

This business of using one's General (aka Galactic) Hosting (aka Holding) Corp "shares" as "political capital" is one of the things I hope to get into in this hopefully ongoing discussion of the game-development of the Galactic Milieu and its component games.

For example maybe to make a new FreeCiv world available to colonise might require some number of GHC shares to be committed to that world by the would-be colonists, which would also allow us to retcon how many shares various Civilisations already discovered on such worlds must presumably have had in order to have gotten to start on that world.

I was thinking something like 100 shares times size of world, so a size 29 world like B29 or C29 or E29 would have required its original settlers to have owned between them all a total of 2900 shares.

But there are a million shares in total so maybe it ought to be more like 1000 or more shares times size of world?

Basically it would represent the amount of political capital a House would need to get in on such opportunities...

-MarkM-