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Politician strategy in 195-0 World Draft

Politicians are the flexible authority backbone of a cabinet. They can stabilise the President seat, remain useful as General, and protect the entire campaign from the missing-authority multiplier.

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Role fit snapshot

Where Politicians fit best

01 · President

58 role-fit weight in the live scoring model. This is the category’s strongest strategic assignment.

02 · Propaganda Minister

52 role-fit weight in the live scoring model. A viable fallback when the best seat is already covered.

03 · General

48 role-fit weight in the live scoring model. A viable fallback when the best seat is already covered.

04 · Treasurer

38 role-fit weight in the live scoring model. Usually avoid this seat unless a later pool forces a compromise.

05 · Vice President

36 role-fit weight in the live scoring model. Usually avoid this seat unless a later pool forces a compromise.

Draft plan

Three decisions that matter

Rule 1

Prioritise President when a stronger Military Commander is available for General and a Billionaire is available for Treasurer.

Rule 2

Use a Politician as General when the pool offers no Military Commander or Dictator, but do not spend one there if the President seat still lacks authority.

Rule 3

Treat country diversity as a late tiebreaker: the category has enough role coverage that it can help complete an international coalition without wrecking core fit.

Curated pools

Where this category can appear

USA pool

Politicians

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Barack Obama
  • Joe Biden
  • Donald Trump
  • Hillary Clinton
France pool

Politicians

  • Charles de Gaulle
  • Emmanuel Macron
  • François Mitterrand
  • Jacques Chirac
  • Nicolas Sarkozy
  • Marine Le Pen
China pool

Politicians

  • Mao Zedong
  • Xi Jinping
  • Deng Xiaoping
  • Sun Yat-sen
  • Zhou Enlai
  • Chiang Kai-shek
India pool

Politicians

  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Indira Gandhi
  • Narendra Modi
  • Vallabhbhai Patel
  • B. R. Ambedkar
Brazil pool

Politicians

  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  • Jair Bolsonaro
  • Dilma Rousseff
  • Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  • Getúlio Vargas
  • Juscelino Kubitschek
Germany pool

Politicians

  • Angela Merkel
  • Olaf Scholz
  • Helmut Kohl
  • Otto von Bismarck
  • Willy Brandt
  • Konrad Adenauer
Canada pool

Politicians

  • John A. Macdonald
  • Pierre Trudeau
  • Lester B. Pearson
  • Wilfrid Laurier
  • Tommy Douglas
  • Kim Campbell
Argentina pool

Politicians

  • Eva Perón
  • Juan Perón
  • Raúl Alfonsín
  • Néstor Kirchner
  • Arturo Frondizi
  • Domingo Sarmiento
Italy pool

Politicians

  • Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • Camillo di Cavour
  • Alcide De Gasperi
  • Sandro Pertini
  • Romano Prodi
  • Emma Bonino
Egypt pool

Politicians

  • Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Anwar Sadat
  • Hosni Mubarak
  • Mohamed Naguib
  • Saad Zaghloul
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali
South Africa pool

Politicians

  • Nelson Mandela
  • Desmond Tutu
  • F. W. de Klerk
  • Thabo Mbeki
  • Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Albert Luthuli
Kenya pool

Politicians

  • Jomo Kenyatta
  • Wangari Maathai
  • Oginga Odinga
  • Mwai Kibaki
  • Tom Mboya
  • Raila Odinga
Turkey pool

Politicians

  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  • İsmet İnönü
  • Turgut Özal
  • Bülent Ecevit
  • Süleyman Demirel
  • Halide Edib Adıvar
Indonesia pool

Politicians

  • Sukarno
  • Mohammad Hatta
  • B. J. Habibie
  • Megawati Sukarnoputri
  • Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Sutan Sjahrir
Philippines pool

Politicians

  • José Rizal
  • Manuel Quezon
  • Corazon Aquino
  • Benigno Aquino Jr.
  • Ramon Magsaysay
  • Sergio Osmeña
Pakistan pool

Politicians

  • Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • Benazir Bhutto
  • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
  • Liaquat Ali Khan
  • Fatima Jinnah
  • Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Ireland pool

Politicians

  • Michael Collins
  • Éamon de Valera
  • Mary Robinson
  • Daniel O'Connell
  • Constance Markievicz
  • Garret FitzGerald

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