@ Oberon
Now, now, it is not all that bad. Like I said, you only need to throw an additional regiment or two into the meat grinder and the nasty rebels will disappear all on their own.
Now, I wonder if I could have a repeat show of this in Milan and Venice
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As for the population contentment problem, I have found the necessary command to increase it to 100 across all social classes in an entire country. So if there is agreement among all players, we can get this done in the next turn.