Lexicon

Politics has a lot of vocabulary due to its flexible design. Below are some of the words.

Organization hierarchy

Universe

• Universe - The highest level of organization. A universe can be in one or multiple worlds and contains a lot of group levels.
• Universe Rules - The rules that determine how gameplay should be in a universe. These can be used to set a multitude of different options or force things to happen or not happen.

World

• World - Corresponds with a world in Spout.
• World Config - The configuration of a world; contains the properties of the world.
• Plot - A portion of land owned by a player or the group. These are composed of a configurable number of chunks.

Groups

• Group - A group of sub-groups and players. Please note that in-game you will rarely, if ever, see the word group outside of administration. It is the general term for any types of group (alliance, nation, faction, town, city, etc) that you may create in the configuration.
• Group Level - A level of organization of a group. This can be a faction, a nation, or whatever you want to name it. Again, you will rarely, if ever, see this outside of administration.
• Group Property - An attribute of a group, for example, the name, tag, or spawn.

Privileges/Players

• Privileges - Actions one is allowed to do within their organization.
• Roles - A named set of privileges. For example, an Assistant may get land claiming privileges.
• Track - A list of roles to check what role to promote/demote to. You can also think of this as a ladder.
• Citizen - A synonym for a player. In the code, Citizens are used to store additional data about Spout Players without reading from a player file whenever we need additional data.

Ambiguous stuff

• your universe - Determined by which command you use AND the world you are in. This allows for configurations like clans and guilds in the same world.
• your group - The group you are part of. (e.g. your faction, alliance, etc) This is determined also by the command you use and your universe. Please note that in-game you will rarely, if ever, see the word group outside of administration. It is the general term for any types of group (alliance, nation, faction, town, city, etc) that you may create in the configuration.