[raynfala]

How about this one:

Design the game with a client/server architecture, where clients would be:

* the user interface screen
* computer AI's
* ministers

and the server would be the game engine & state.

This would allow (among other things):

* aspiring AI designers to implement their own AI's (virtually no limits on what the AI examines from its vantage point when making a move)
* avid players to code their own user interfaces
* avid players to implement ministers that do exactly what they want them to do

Comments?

--Raynfala