I occupied all of Gaul, I didn't enslave or exterimate a single city. My empire is strong, but my income is only about +7000 per turn, which doesn't allow for a whole lot of building and training in an empire of 25 provinces. Due to... uh... some complaints by my people about the sanitary conditions of their neighbors and a Senate demand, I recently found myself at war with both Brittania and Spain. I'm a bit stretched thin, so the 10-20k dinarii from exterimation was too hard to resist and I am carving a bloody swathe through both of those regions. It's working out rather nicely I think.

I was opposed to extermination in the beginning as I was trying to uphold the International Charter on Pixel Rights, but I am reconsidering that. Perhaps I might 'accidentally' click the wrong button some more in the future.