Meritocracy
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Meritocracy

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Merit is not exclusive to the upper echelons of our society. It can be found everywhere, even among the humblest individuals. By creating standardized exams that measure this merit, effort, and overall competency, we can find intellectual jewels hidden in plain sight, and properly appoint them for the betterment of our nation.

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It has no requires, so the game files don’t say where this goes. When the game builds the Traditions tree, it adds this at the end of a branch with room for it, in the same spot in every campaign.

  1. Meritocracy
  2. Abacus then 6 more
  3. Educated Bureaucrats then 10 more
  4. Mamluk Barīd Only some countries

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