Public Order

Public Order represents the happiness of your fiefdom and their willingness to allow you, the lord, to govern. If they are kept under a firm but gentle yolk, then both small folk and high born alike will be grateful for your guidance. But should you exploit them, should you take every last scrap of food from your peasants to feed your army and every last coin from your nobles to arm them then they will be storming your castle with pitchforks and torches! Public Order can be influenced by a number of factors. You can gain it through having plentiful reserve supplies of both food and coin, and more importantly enough troops to keep the roads clear of bandits and to defend yourself from raids from other lords. It's easy to lose public order however, if your hit by a bad harvest and have to choose between feeding your people and your army... or if you squander all of the coin on making your castle the mightiest in the land while leaving the villages starving and hungry.

Scale
Public Order is on a scale of 1 to 6. With 1 being open revolt and 6 meaning having the absolute love of all your subjects.


 * 1 - Revolt
 * 2 - Discontent
 * 3 - Stable
 * 4 - Content
 * 5 - Loyal
 * 6 - Fanatical

Public Order Affected By Sieges
Every Lord knows that it is always best to attack a castle while the public order inside is low. A castle with a Public Order of 4 or more, automatically gains a defense bonus. Alternatively, when a castle is successfully defeated during a siege, the Public Order drops to 1, making it a nuisance for the Lord who controls it