Strategy

A strategy or 'strat typically refers to a vague plan for conducting your country for a round, usually emphasizing the government and building distribution of the country. Some examples of common strategies are communist industrialist, better known as a 'commie indy', republic casher or 'rep casher', fascist farmer or 'fasc farmer', theocracy military base reseller or TMBR, democracy military base reseller or DMBR, fascist oiler or 'fasc oiler', and tyranny techer or 'tyr techer'. In all cases, the 'er' is often dropped, and the government is typically shortened to four letters or less, sometimes being shortened to simply the letter use in-game to signify that government. Theocracy has the odd distinction of being referred to in TMBR with a T when the ingame designation is H. Rainbow is a term used to refer to strategies where the building distribution is not focused on any particular building, but instead is spread out. A historically used startup was a tyranny parking-lot, where land was gained via landgrabbing but not built for several hundred turns, leaving it empty.

Some strategies that are meant to be more humorous than serious include:

• republic slummer
• republic paradiser