Romans hard-coded to survive?

[LordK9]

RE: The Senate are average in standing towards me but the mob really hates me.

I've had the opposite of sorts happen - was playing out the game even though I had no chance of winning as the blue faction - about 50 years left to go - and I was outlawed. I was more popular with the Senate then either of the other two factions (nobody was popular - they each had one icon, I had two) and the mob by far hated me more then the others. I had under 20 provinces too (made some bad financial choices so got into a death spiral bind).

Also, with the hard coded finance thing - several times I got messages saying I was the richest faction but always the purple finance line on the graph was higher then mine.