You should have slavery since the tribal stage and chose wheather or jot to abolish it in the civilazation stage, if not abolished you will become a slaver empire.
So, if I understand the theory correctly, the player is Spode. Not the player character, the IRL human playing the game, and probably the dev team who made the game as well. Yeah, that checks out.
this guy is the complete opposite of people who try to get as much publicity and as much of a community as possible when just starting to make their games but then cancel them six months after. We almost never hear from him but he also never stops
