暴政统治

所谓暴政统治（也被称为“北韩流”），是一种通过暴政夺取所有封臣的伯爵领的统治方式。这种方式常常在扮演公爵开局当中，或者扮演并没有剥夺头衔王权法的国王。

一些暴政统治只是为了获得稳定的直辖领，之后便不再实行。另一些则会一直持续，玩家将以铁腕统治相当大的领地。

准备阶段 

如果有时间和途径，寻找技艺娴熟的军事总管和间谍总管。军事总管合一使用“镇压叛乱”任务增加逮捕成功率，间谍总管可通过增加你的国家 密谋属性来间接增加逮捕成功率。

确保你拥有足够的虔诚和威望来执行你的计划：

• 每次尝试逮捕花费10点虔诚
• 驱逐花费10点虔诚
• 处决花费20点虔诚，不过仅在受害者拥有相同宗教时花费虔诚。
• 每次剥夺头衔按头衔大小花费相应的威望
  • 如果有正当理由剥夺头衔则不需要花费威望，但还是需要拥有足够的威望。

选择需要剥夺所有的地产或者仅仅是伯爵头衔。

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Imprisoning all vassals

Have your marshal "suppress revolts" in each province as needed. To move your marshal between provinces, you can fire and re-hire him (without Conclave) or swap him with another councilor and back.

Since vassals of vassals cannot rebel against you, and instead abdicate to their heir on failed imprisonment, two strategies are possible. If they have an heir, it makes sense to force abdication until you imprison one. If they lack an heir and instead have your direct vassal as their fallback heir, it may be preferable to have your direct vassal imprisoned first.

For your direct vassals, if you are concerned about rebellion, imprison their spymaster and execute their spouse first; this will destroy your vassal's state intrigue (may require reloading), making their arrest more likely to succeed. However, keep in mind that imprisonment success rate drops as opinion falls, so it may be best to start with the imprisonments where success is the most important.

Seizing land from vassals

For each imprisoned vassal, there are three methods you can use to seize their titles:

	Method	Tyranny	Cost	Best when...
	Execution	10	20*	You are the heir, and: You want to minimize the amount of tyranny. The vassal is duke rank or higher. This allows you to inherit your vassal's technology points. The vassal has a different religion. (*This removes the piety cost of execution.)
	Banishment	Per title	10	You are the heir, and: You want their cash. Crown authority does not let you revoke titles.
	Title revocation	None	Per title	You do not want to anger courtiers, vassals of vassals, etc. You are out of piety, but have prestige to spare. Can be done without imprisonment, if you can wait for a reply. Rebellion chance depends on relative power

Preventing plots against yourself

An angry court makes it easy for characters to plot against you. The danger is highest when someone has a reason to murder you.

You should replace any high-intrigue councilors, especially your spymaster, with newly invited characters. But keep your old chancellor for long enough to keep invitees coming and bribes working.

Empty your court of witnesses as much as possible. Remove unmarried courtiers by getting them married outside your court (matrilineally for men), or with The Reaper's Due, simply asking them to leave. Ideally, get your courtiers married to nearby landowners, making it less likely that two nearby realms will combine through inheritance.

If you've already decided which counties you are getting rid of, consider granting the churches in those counties to your courtiers. You will gain 25 piety from each church grant, and as soon as you give away the counties, they will not be your direct vassals. The downside is your new counts will have fewer "+20 granted a barony" modifiers because you didn't give the temples to them.

Dealing with your demesne limit

If your demesne limit is small and you're only slightly over it, don't worry about the limit. The penalties to income and levies start out at only 20% per holding over the limit. Try to get a spouse or heir with higher stewardship.

If you're significantly over your demesne limit, you may:

• Ignore the effects of demesne limits while holding all counties yourself.
  • This is known as North Korea Mode.
  • You can even hold all baronies yourself, although this has additional "wrong holding type" penalties for income/levies.
• Keep all count vassals imprisoned, so they cannot join factions or plot against you.
  • This is known as Guantanamo Bay Mode.
• End your reign of tyranny by granting land to new vassals who did not witness your actions.
  • These non-witnesses can come from invitations or from decisions that generate new courtiers.
  • Another possibility is to land a small number of counts, wait for them to generate courtiers, and then land those courtiers.
  • Or, you can use "create new vassal" on a minor barony and then grant the county to that baron. (For cities/temples, this will change the county type, and cannot be done if it will cause more than 10% of your realm to be under that type of government.)