This is basically exactly what I was looking for 
I wanted to know where the stats risk breaking down so I can plan ahead.
This was certainly one I was worried might be conflating too many factors. At its core, it represents positive interpersonal bonds, so if the character is acting out of love for certain individuals that approach them, that raises the stat. It’s not so much universal love or even sociability. Maybe detachment is the wrong word? Maybe love is also the wrong word? (If only each of the stat’s labels could be an essay 
)
This was part of where I was wondering if a more general altruism would be worth tracking separately, since I wasn’t sure what to do with kindness or hostility to strangers.
I was mostly seeing this in terms of what means the character is using, but that is rather at odds with how the rest of the stats are more motivation-based. Something to represent whether you’re a fighter or going for a Gandhi or reformer route. But I can see there’s a lot going into this.
That’s pretty much what the typical position on the elitism end would be. It’s basically the scholarly traditional opinion of the republic’s leaders.
I was thinking of a sort of grid between this and monarchism/republicanism, where elite+republic is what’s currently going on (certain families dominate, hold elections, no monarch), populist+monarchy is what the main rebel factions wants (strong king who protects the people), populist+republic is more like what @idonotlikeusernames wants to work for (political power for the people), and then elite+monarchy I guess would be more of an absolute ruler favoring the higher classes.
I wasn’t really sure about the terminology here, especially since elitism sounds loaded. Well, and populism can be loaded too.
Also thinking of the Populares and Optimates in Rome.
Sure of nothing
I guess I just don’t have the same associations, but I definitely don’t want to make things feel loaded. Originally I chose “purity” just for flavor, because a lot of Verdant spirituality involves purification. So if someone was really living spiritually, they would be considered very pure. So yeah, I take your point. Maybe I could have purity as a separate non-opposed stat that only shows for seers or something…
I need to think about this. They’re the only ones I was planning on writing. They’re the only ones that have a body of scholarship behind them, and the only one with active forces behind them. But in theory? Yeah, obviously in theory they’re not the only thing possible.
I would see this as the populism plus republicanism position. Family-based politics mostly come into play either with monarchy (because heredity [though it could be adoptive (great, that’s another dimension 
)]) or with elites (because that’s what the elites are based on).
Meritocratic would be interesting. Hmm. On the whole that’s probably something people would consider a different, more administrative, flavor of republic… there’ve been periods similar to that in Verdant history…
I’d think any of the factions could have potential to go militaristic. Sort of what I was thinking with the war/peace dimension. Could be more variables to track… I could always have some hidden ones so I don’t overload the screen…
When you say authoritarian, do you mean more like a strongman or dictator than a hereditary monarchy? I think most people in Laghuna would view that as a divergent monarchy.
But to some extent I can’t write every possible political side, so I want to focus mainly on ones that are relevant to the culture I’m writing in. Without feeling too railroaded, hopefully 
it will be a tricky tightrope.
Bleh, and come to think of it, there’s also apolitical people, or people just out for personal gain, which were both things I have actual plot ideas for I don’t know how I’m doing this.
Oh, well, it doesn’t really 
being traditionally a republic and all. None of the analogies are really exact. I’m mostly looking at Chinese dynasties falling as models for overall collapse.
