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By the way, it's very difficult to push back. If you try to push back, an election will often be rigged, or a coup will occur. One of the worst episodes happened in Osiris a number of years ago. A newer player won a very close election for Pharaoh in Osiris. His platform was essentially populist: let's overthrow the elites who run all the major regions and make Osiris a region for Osirians only. After he won, Cormac and Tim -- both members of the global governing class -- made up some story about violations of regional election laws. The election was voided. Then, a number of military allies -- also members of the global governing class -- flooded into the region and reinstated the establishment leadership.

Then, you get lame excuses like this one:

"Whether you like it or not, most of those who opposed the coup -- with notable exceptions like Raven, Kyorgia, and one or two others -- contributed very little to Osiris. Jesus Whale himself accumulated only 239 posts on the regional forum over the course of two years. That was the guy you folks thought should be Pharaoh, who wanted to demonize and ostracize a so-called 'old guard' that had been actually contributing to Osiris while his only contributions were 'Aye' and 'Nay.' Jesus Whale explicitly included Raven in that old guard, by the way, until he decided Raven was politically useful to him. He and most of his supporters were some of our least active citizens, engaged in demagoguery against those who were contributing the most to Osiris, plain and simple."

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"[O]ur least active citizens" = players who were citizens of Osiris only
"[T]hose who were contributing the most to Osiris" = global governing class