Morale: Your Population and You

I was thinking that somehow your civilization's morale should be more dependent on many more factors.

For example, suppose you have been allies with another civ for a majority of the game and you then decide to back stab them for a military victory. There should be a morale penalty for this. Something like this today would take your citizens back wondering why their country's buddies are now their enemies.

This could also work for ethical alignments and the such. If you have constantly been choosing the Evil option on the random events, there should be a morale penalty if you decide to buy your way into being "Good." If a civilization is used to being evil, they would have an awfully hard time suddenly changing to live good lifestyles meaning they would not be please with their government for the change.

There could be many more instance if morale was decided to be used this way. I'm only trying to brainstorm right now, so everyone else's opinions are certainly welcomed.
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For example, suppose you have been allies with another civ for a majority of the game and you then decide to back stab them for a military victory. There should be a morale penalty for this. Something like this today would take your citizens back wondering why their country's buddies are now their enemies.

In an evil civilization, all it will take is a little propaganda.  Seriously, I would like to see a more complex moral and political system.
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I rather liked the morale system in botf, where each of the races had their own morale system, so klingons, for instance, disliked making treaties with other races, but HATED breaking them, while the Cardassians could make or break treaties pretty much with impunity. The system was a little inflexible in that you couldn't customise the races, but you could get round this by choosing your values as part of the customisation process: imperial (klingon); fascist (cardassian); corporate (ferengi); republican (romulan not us party); and compassionate (federation).
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I would think that backstabing your friend would improve the morale of an evil civilization, so long it was done successfully