I'm surprised you haven't gone red already... If anything, Erinaum has the more moderate government. It sounds like your country is close to Totalitarian.
The masses are not capable of ruling themselves. Socialism always deteriorates into communism, or populism which is worse (Greece being a prime example). I wouldn't prefer to live in a totalitarian government, but I'd say that they provide stability and peace if the masses are kept busy and happy, which they will be hard put to be if not properly commanded. If you give a man enough rope, he'll hand himself. I may seem totalitarian, but I'd think Avalonian citizens have more and greater freedoms than the people of the USSR (real life or Anagean), for starters the fact that the government only interferes in the capitalist economy on matters affecting the longevity and fertility of citizens, and that they vote in the first citizen (who holds 10% or so of the governmental power and 3.25% or so of the budget) to determine civil services they get for cheap.
I won't say my system doesn't have it's iron fisted parts, but I will say that if that wouldn't provide stability (which is the whole purpose of establishing a government, to provide peace and security for the people to grow in), what can short of divine intervention?
Either way, I get worked up if I talk politics so long. So, I'm going to move on before I go into conniptions or something to that effect.
But really. I want to play again and my country is in op. :c What should I do existing players? Also, if I start playing again can someone pm pretty much all the stuff i need to know that we do now.
Ask nicely for your land back (from me, I kinda took it over). Then I make the Mtlogica Romagnans pay about 2 trillion, half in gold and up to a quarter in wheat (all over 100 years, averaging out to 20 billion a year), rest in money. The price is because I've owned the land for a while, and because I pour money, resources, and manpower into new Avalonian territories (which yours was) and upkeep them at high standards and technological improvements and efficiency. (I must add that Caprica had it a lot worse when it left Erinaum's control, and you don't have it any worse than Aemilius did, Caprica has/had a 100 *cough million couch* year plan in which it was under Erinaum's thumb and constant control and supervision).