Personally I believe unless pushed many in the main SA theocracies will tow the line and maintain homogenized society in order to maintain safety in numbers, making for probable long term survival but a longer slower form of play style that will grind out any fun to be had instead of a map that is filled with empires that quickly rise, blossom and fall apart into war and a blaze of glory.
Part of the reason I'll prolly pause my knight once Allison retires. If I wanted status quo I would've just unpaused my second CE character instead of rolling a new guy for the express purpose of being the villain's henchman.
