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RIS replaces the base game's handful of religions with 51 local beliefs, one per people, near enough. In each region a belief is either the majority or a minority held alongside a larger one.

51 of the 51 are on the map at the campaign start, across 605 regions.

What a belief does, and what it does not

Beliefs do not unlock buildings or units.
No belief creates unrest against another. The base game's religious friction is switched

off across the board.

What a belief's strength does decide is how much a settlement's own buildings add to it:

the same building adds a different amount where the belief is weak than where it is the majority, and each page shows that for its own belief.

Culture and belief are separate axes. 10 of the 22 cultures have factions on more than one belief. The cultures are on their own pages.

The 51 beliefs, by group

Majority and Minority are provinces: the ones where this is the largest belief, and the ones where it is held alongside a larger one. Together they are every province that holds it. Factions is not a count of provinces: it is how many factions have this as their state belief, so a faction with forty provinces counts once.

Anatolian group · 12 beliefs · 43 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions	Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions	Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Cappadocian	8	2	—	Phrygian	4	3	—	Paphlagonian	2	4	1
Mysian	2	2	—	Carian	1	2	1	Lydian	1	2	—
Pisidian	3	—	1	Cilician	2	—	1	Lycian	1	1	1
Isaurian	1	—	—	Lycaonian	1	—	—	Pamphylian	1	—	—

Hellenic group · 12 beliefs · 196 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions	Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions	Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Macedonian	16	53	10	Dorian	32	12	17	Ionian	28	5	16
Indo-Greek	—	17	—	Greco-Bactrian	1	11	1	Aeolian	5	3	2
Bosporan	2	2	1	Epirote	2	1	1	Cypriot Greek	2	—	—
Northwest Greek	2	—	2	Arcadian	1	—	1	Pamphylian Greek	—	1	—

Illyrian group · 5 beliefs · 22 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions	Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions	Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Delmato-Pannonian	6	5	3	Illyrian	3	3	3	Dardanian	2	—	1
Venetic	2	—	2	Liburnian	1	—	1

Thracian group · 4 beliefs · 37 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions	Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions	Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Thracian	20	10	11	Bithynian	1	3	1	Triballian	1	1	1
Paeonian	1	—	1

Arab group · 1 belief · 49 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Arab	39	10	10

Armenian group · 1 belief · 9 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Armenian	6	3	4

Assyrian group · 1 belief · 19 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Assyrian	10	9	1

Baltic group · 1 belief · 4 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Baltic	4	—	—

Caucasian group · 1 belief · 14 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Caucasian	11	3	5

Celtic group · 1 belief · 143 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Celtic	124	19	63

Egyptian group · 1 belief · 17 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Egyptian	11	6	1

Ethiopian group · 1 belief · 22 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Ethiopian	21	1	3

Germanic group · 1 belief · 38 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Germanic	26	12	16

Iberian group · 1 belief · 49 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Iberian	20	29	10

Indian group · 1 belief · 19 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Indian	18	1	2

Iranian group · 1 belief · 52 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Iranian	42	10	5

Italic group · 1 belief · 31 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Italic	20	11	14

Judaean group · 1 belief · 8 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Judaean	2	6	1

Libyan group · 1 belief · 36 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Libyan	17	19	7

Mesopotamian group · 1 belief · 11 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Mesopotamian	8	3	1

Phoenician group · 1 belief · 53 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Phoenician	35	18	5

Scythian group · 1 belief · 47 regions

Belief	Majority	Minority	Factions
Scythian	35	12	11

Beliefs no faction defaults to

11 of the 51 are the state belief of no faction: Baltic, Mysian, Lydian, Pamphylian, Phrygian, Lycaonian, Isaurian, Cappadocian, Indo-Greek, Cypriot Greek, Pamphylian Greek. 11 of those are still on the map, held by provinces rather than by a state.