Senate

Politics and government play a vital role in the development of your society. As such, a senate, being where the ruling class may confer with its subjects, is a vital part of your infrastructure.
Senates are important for several reasons. Firstly, where a senate is built will determine where your capital will be set up. A capital will exert a slight boost upon your borders, and will also act as the spawn point of your patriot unit. At each stage in the development of your faction, you will also be allowed to choose one of two self-exclusive technologies at your senate; each one representing a totalitarian or libertarian stance towards government.
To research a government, select your senate, and then click the icons representing your choice government. Apart from effecting some changes to your faction's abilities, the new government technology you researched will also grant you a patriot unit (which represents the ruler of your people) and may even unlock new units.
===Alternate names===
*In Ultima Ratio / Rise of Napoleon, it retains its vanilla name.
*In Rise of the Moderns the Senate is known as the Civic Centre.
*In The Southeastern Dragon, it is replaced with two buildings - the Nobles' Court, and the National Assembly.
===Royal Prerogative===
"So this is what being king is all about!." — Alexander the Great, using Darius' effects after the battle of Issus
*Cheaper infantry
*Stronger cavalry auxiliary units in [2]
*Access to the Palace Complex for whoever may be able to build it
*Access to Protector of the Realm Patriot.
*Allows construction of all pre-Imperial militaristic wonders
Cost	
Requirements	
Leads to
*: 100
*Research time: Rather slow	
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*name your cav units here
===Liberalism===
"What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been hitherto in the political order? Nothing. What does it desire to be? Something!" — Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French priest and revolutionary
*Enhanced commerce cap
*Access to Legislator Patriot.
* Allows construction of all pre-Imperial civil wonders
Cost	
Requirements	
Leads to
*: 100: 200
*Research time: Rather slow	
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*Republican Guard
*Yacht
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===Sovereign Rights===
"But I'm the Kaiser, and I want apricot dumplings!" —Ferdinand I of Austria
*Grants access to the Monarch patriot unit and a super cavalry mercenary in Industrial Era.
*Required to build the Presidium for Hispanic civs.
*Cheaper Academy units
Cost	
Requirements	
Leads to
*: 250: 330
*Research time: Rather slow	
* [2]
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*Victory-class Battleship
===Consensual Government ===
"The power of equal votes for unequal minds." — Charles I Stuart
*Grants access to the President patriot unit
*Cheaper non-library research
*Upgrades infantry mercenaries in Industrial Era.
Cost	
Requirements	
Leads to
*: 400: 500
*Research time: Rather slow	
* [3]
* 	
*Regimental Zouaves, or All-Victorious Army
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*Other buildings?
===Autocracy===
"I am an upstart soldier. My domination will not outlive the day when I cease to be strong."  —Napoleon Bonaparte 
*Receives the Senior Statesman.
*Faster production for naval and siege units.
Cost	
Requirements	
Leads to
*: 1,000: 800
*Research time: Rather slow	
* [4]
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===Popular Front===
"This world does not belong to you, and cannot be ruled just to satisfy your whims." —Tokugawa Ieyasu
*Receives the Populist patriot.
*One-time 500 oil boost immediately.
Cost	
Requirements	
Leads to
*: 1,000: 800
*Research time: Rather slow	
* [5]
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Note, however, that you need to be careful with your capital, as in some games, you will lose if your opponent captures your capital and holds it successfully as his own for a limited amount of time, so careful placement of your senate or capital can make a difference between victory or defeat.
==Notes==
=== Ultima Ratio ===
In Rise of Napoleon/Ultima Ratio, Governments have a more streamlined and different set of tech tree requirements:
* Tier 2: only Political Parties were required to access these.
* Tier 3: only Industrial Era and Federalism were required to access these.
==See also== 
*Library (Rise of the Moderns)
*Technologies (Rise of the Moderns)
Category:Buildings
Category:Game mechanics