Three voices — the Senate's formal Acta Senatus, the daily Acta Diurna, and the raw graffiti of the Subura — generate headlines about your decree every month. Watch each spin your orders in completely different directions.

Every decree moves the needle differently in Italia vs Syria vs Britannia. Romanised cores, contested frontiers, restless East — each reacts based on its demographic mix. Hold the empire together, or watch it fracture along its fault-lines.

The Senate, the Praetorian Guard, the frontier legions, the Pontifices, the grain merchants, the Christian community, the Equestrian order — 23 power blocs track your reign and shift their support over time. Lose the wrong ones and you don't die in bed.

Raise legionary pay in February? By April, the Treasury is empty and the Senate is furious. Persecute Christians? By summer, a Christian centurion's conspiracy is unmasked in the Guard. Every decision creates downstream events that force a second response.

Toggle on the full simulation. Treasury balance, grain supply, Mediterranean trade, coinage integrity and provincial tribute react to every decree. Your senatus consulta must survive the Senate, the Praetorian Guard's enforcement, and the imperial bureaucracy — fail and your agenda is quietly watered down or outright blocked. Track population, plague severity, bread price, Romanisation, Christian growth, crime in Rome, arena satisfaction and military manpower — and watch them all shift with every decision you make.