Clergy men.

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Is this a good idea for Russia, I am having trouble with some Ukrainian orthodox communists and some Estonian protestants being extremist Communists or Socialists.
I want to help reduce their militancy.
To Reduce Ukrainian Orthodox Militancy of Communists in Kiev, should I convert a huge stack of Russian Orthodox Clergymen in Moscow? Do Clergy work on a national level? They reduce militancy across the entire country? Across all states?
Secondly, the culture of the Ukraiians and Russians is different but they are the same religion. Is that all that matters for clergy? A Russian Orthodox Clergy has the same effect on Ukrainian Ortodox as a Ukrainian Orthodox would have on Russian? For that matter what about an Armenian Orthodox Clergy? Wuld he too reduce militancy for all orthodox?

Now unto the Estonian, which is not a national culture. Does Orthodox Clergy have effect on him? If not then which clergy would effect Estonian Protestant? And where should be he placed? In Estonia or say, Sweden?

 

[Orm]

Clergy give a reduction in consciousness, not militancy. And only to some of the poor POP types. They work on the state level, they only give an effect to POPs in their own state. The religion of the clergyman doesn't matter, you could have a moslem clergyman in Rome and he would still give an effect on the catholic POPs there.

 

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Huh, religion dosen't seem to have any effect. Different religions don't matter...
Is reducing conciousness a good step in reducing these psky rebellions from the Estonia and Ukraine?

 

[iain_a_wilson]

Is reducing conciousness a good step in reducing these psky rebellions from the Estonia and Ukraine?

It's militancy you want to be reducing. Every POP with a high MIL (7 I think) is at more risk of rebelling. CON dictates how a POP will vote. I believe it also affects plurality.

 

[Waffen9999]

Conciousness indirectly can lead to a high militancy. The more concious they are, the more they see that things are wrong. Which means your plurality rises higher. If you're a Democracy or a Constitutional Monarchy that's no problem, as a Democracy its good even. As anything else, its BADDDDDDDDDD. If your governing policies don't match up with what they want as their conciousness rises, they get angry. But if you can keep their conciousness low, they tend to go along with what the ruling party says and therefore their wants should convert to the party in power.

 

[Pal]

It's militancy you want to be reducing. Every POP with a high MIL (7 I think) is at more risk of rebelling. CON dictates how a POP will vote. I believe it also affects plurality.

Those things are intertvined, though. Consciousness affects how much a pop cares for politics, and thus how large an influence politics have on that pop's militancy. In an oppressed dictatorship, all is fine as long as CON is low enough so the people don't know they're being oppressed. In a democracy, all the governmental care, love and peace for its people won't have any effect on the people's feelings if they aren't conscious of them.

So reducing conciousness is long-term a good thing for monarchies and a bad thing for democracies. In Monarchies it will also decrease the militancy growth of your more fancy pops, like anarchists...

EDIT: Thouroughly emu'd by Waffen9999