The Leadup to War

The decision to go to war against the Canadians was not one made solely by Glaukos. Although, in this case he would have had enough influence to veto the war.

There are a total of 273 representatives in the Greek parliament, with each representative having 1 vote. The breakdown of representatives by cities at the time of the war vote was as follows:

Sparta - 65
Thebes - 73
Corinth - 70
Mycenae - 50
Argos - 7
Knossos - 8

Then, Glaukos's decision counts as votes equal to 1/4th of the total representatives(55 votes at this particular time), or 20% of the total.

The Greek constitution states:
"For a vote of war to pass, unless it be the case that the war is a matter of grave danger to the Greek nation, the qualification of "grave danger" being determined by the Greek high court, the vote must pass by a 2 to 1 margin."

"The War for the integration of the Canadians and the future prosperity of the Greeks" surpassed this margin, with -
186 yays
91 nays
3 abstain (counts as nay)
Glaukos - yay

final tally, yay for "The War for the integration of the Canadians and the future prosperity of the Greeks"
by 241 to 97, or 2.48 to 1.
All the cities voted yay by majority except for Thebes, where only 34 of the 73 representatives voted yay. This was due to the Buddhist holy city containing the most pacifist sects.

The 3 abstaining votes also came from Thebes, from the Avyákata sect, which wholly views life, death, and war as without inherent goodness or badness, and strictly adhere to not interfering with other peoples' choices. The Avyákata actually composes of 20% of Thebe's population, however, not surprisingly, most of them do not take part in politics. It is not known what they would have chosen had their votes could have been decisive. Perhaps they would have been pushed for being non-existent for the matter of the vote (so the total number of representatives would have been 3 less), although this would likely have been met with opposition by the other nay voters.

To accommodate the religious beliefs of the Buddhists, the most widespread religion in Greece, the Greeks have allowed those with who subscribe to non-violence to register as conscientious objectors, and not be enlisted. This requires an application to be filled out by their local ministers, or another respected reference, or a meeting with Buddhist ministers employed by the military, to screen people for their religious beliefs by asking them about their views and their knowledge of the religion.

Several dozen incidents of fraud have been discovered. One group set up a false monastery for the purpose of giving applications for people. Public records have been searched for violent acts of those who applied as pacifists, and several were found to have instigated bar fights or other violent acts long after their supposed adoption of the religion. The penalties for these offenders has varied from military service, either for combat or support, or 3-10 years in prison.

The Greeks have also not received any funding from the Buddhist state organizations, which has made funding the war and standing military much more expensive than anticipated. However, it has made most of the Buddhists at least tolerate the war and not actively oppose it.