Reply #43: Well it always starts out good for the wealthy class [View All]

They get to rob an indigenous population of their national resources with their superior technology and weaponary, sometimes they are even invited in. However, as they educate locals to control the lower tiers of the empire problems always erupt. Some locals begin to think they should be the kings and other locals think that the people of the country deserve the same rights that the people enjoy in the country that has taken over.

Invariably you need to pay more bribes to keep the locals who could cause revolt pacified, be more brutal to the ones who don't care about money, and send your own people from your lower classes to fight the revolutionaries. Eventually the revolutionaries always win because they have something to die for. Their Children's future and the lower classes of your country are just hired guns protecting other men's property.