Another idea I just had might be to have the militia be paid a wage by the zone governor out of the private economy. This wage however is based upon the maximum size of the militia, not its present size.

The militia unit buys manpower from the main pool via a random event and also buys upgrades ...

There is an event in the game that seems to fire extremely often if you have the misfortune (seems that way sometimes) of forming an alliance with a Maritime Trading House (MTH).

In it they offer you a new leader that belongs to the MTH. Initially you need this event in order to fill your ranks ...

You have to worry about sales taxes being too high but not income taxes. People are always going to be making an income but buying things aside from food is optional.

At the moment the militia system basically breaks down entirely once you leave the early-game. This is due to the strength of the factors reducing militancy in settlements combined with the weakness of those factors increasing it. However at the point that the inevitable militancy crash occurs, you ...

I have run into a fascinating bug with the private sector building AI. I created a new town to the north of my capital in a game set on an earth-like planet. I created the town from a farming asset that I created, the open-farming type of asset, which means that said asset is on the town square. I ...

Not sure yet. These changes to metal sources are in beta. It is definitely a challenge and is, I suspect, not yet balanced. In the past versions of SE, the lack of metal sites I encountered and the placement of the soil demetalization tech further out in the tech tree would have been fatal for me ...

Is this a problem with the game or just a challenge?

As soon as I conquered the enemy capital I acquired a fourth religion, the Apocrypha Cult and in a turn it managed to oust the syndics from three out of my four zones.

What seems to be happening is that the game contains a religion spread mechanic to redistribute religions between adjacent zones ...

In one of my games I had two established religions, the Anima Cult and the Eternity Movement. The first was supported by my government while the latter had no policy.

Then I captured a third, highly depopulated town with about 9000 people left in it. However they had something else, a third ...

As it stands I see a fair amount of use of generic militia units in the game, way past the point that such units should really be being used. For some reason a system exists for milita by which they get to eventually use, typically obsolete models of their own faction, but no system exists for ...

I think the rebels become more dangerous over time but based upon turn number rather than tech of those they are rebelling against. They basically use the same units as free folk marauders and the like, the generic militia units.