Growing Influence of the Urban Elites

While they lack a formal voice in our government, the richer cities have many other ways to make their influence known. In some cases, cities can even band together to further increase their power over a province. The leaders of one such conglomeration in our nation have recently approached us asking to formalize some of the ways in which they exert control. Allying with the cities would allow us to promote much more durable systems of government but we would likely lose the support of some of the local warrior groups we now rely on for military support.