Collecting countries
Worth 8 campaign strength — about 5 territories. A fourth and fifth nation add nothing at all. Take the better fit every time.
Total world domination
The only cabinet that can reach 195-0
We scored every possible cabinet. Total world domination is not a matter of stacking bonuses until the number runs out of room — the scoring range is calibrated so that exactly one assignment touches 195, and even it needs the roll to land.
Every cabinet built from five different categories stops at 184. Getting the last 11 takes a trick most players never find.
- 360,360five-category cabinets scored
- 0of them can reach 195
- 184best score without doubling up
- 32territories an authority figure is worth
Computed over every ordered assignment of 15 draftable categories across 5 seats, with the alliance bonus at its maximum. These figures are regenerated from the scoring data on every build.
The one rule
Everything depends on having someone in charge
If no Politician, Dictator or Military Commander appears anywhere in your five appointments, the cabinet loses 30 campaign strength. It is a subtraction, not a multiplier, so it can be clawed back — but nothing else in the game moves the number this far in one step.
With an authority figure
95
median territories taken, before the campaign roll
Without one
63
median territories — a smaller empire, whatever else you did right
That is a 32-territory swing from one binary condition. For comparison, the country-diversity bonus is worth about 5, and a specialist bonus about 7.
The practical version: take the Politician, Dictator or Military Commander when one is offered, even into a seat that doesn't suit them. A Commander wasted at Propaganda still clears the authority check for the whole cabinet.
The ceiling
The highest-scoring cabinet in the game
One assignment beats every other, and the thing to notice is the top of it: two Politicians. Politicians lead the President table and the Vice President table both, and nothing stops you drafting two of them from different countries — so the optimum doubles up rather than spending a seat on a category worth less there.
| President | Politicians |
|---|---|
| Vice President | Politicians |
| General | Military Commanders |
| Propaganda Minister | Pop Stars |
| Treasurer | Billionaires |
- Starting strength
- 25
- Seat weights (summed, not normalised)
- +228
- Specialist bonuses
- +40
- Alliance (5 nations)
- +8
- Campaign strength, before luck
- 301 / 315
- Nations conquered
- 186 / 195
That lands on 186 before the campaign roll. The last 9 territories come from the roll itself, and only the maximum will do: 1 in 15, or 6.67%. Every other cabinet in the game — including every cabinet of five distinct categories — is capped below it.
What does not matter
Three things to stop optimising
Treating every seat alike
Weights are summed raw, so the seats genuinely differ. General swings the most and Vice President the least — which is exactly why Vice President is where a spare appointment should go.
Hunting famous names
The game never reads who someone is, only their category. A little-known politician and a world-famous one score identically.
The failure mode
What a lost run actually looks like
Strong picks, sensible assignments, nobody in charge — the most common way a promising draft collapses.
| President | Theists |
|---|---|
| Vice President | Billionaires |
| General | Athletes |
| Propaganda Minister | TV Hosts |
| Treasurer | Thieves |
- Starting strength
- 25
- Seat weights (summed, not normalised)
- +178
- Specialist bonuses
- +30
- Alliance (5 nations)
- +8
- No authority figure
- −30
- Campaign strength, before luck
- 211 / 315
- Nations conquered
- 125 / 195
Every appointment here is defensible in isolation, and the cabinet still gives up 32 territories at the median to a rule it never announced. The full formula, step by step →
Field notes
Perfect score questions
Is a perfect 195-0 rare?
Yes. Of the 360,360 assignments using five different categories, none can reach 195 at all — the best of them stops at 184. The only route to 195 puts a Politician in both the President and Vice President seats, and even that cabinet needs the maximum campaign roll: 1 of 15 rolls, or 6.67%.
What is the single most important rule in 195-0?
Put a Politician, Dictator or Military Commander somewhere — anywhere — in the five seats. Without one the cabinet loses 30 campaign strength, worth 32 territories at the median — more than any other single decision.
Does chasing country diversity help?
Barely. Three or more nations adds 8 campaign strength, about 5 territories. Never pass on a better role fit to collect a flag.
Which cabinet scores highest in 195-0?
Politicians as President, Politicians as Vice President, Military Commanders as General, Pop Stars as Propaganda Minister, Billionaires as Treasurer, which reaches 186 territories before the roll and 195 on a maximum one.
Put it into practice