Cheating AI...

[Zatoichi]

My current campaign has the AI Egyptians locked in a war with about 5 constantly rebelling cities, which is nice.

Maybe it has something to do with the difficulty level of the campaign? Or maybe it's more random than that - virtual butterflies flapping their wings in China...

[Ziu]

Yea, we discussed a bit about this in the slash and burn thread below.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=42875

ps. Divine, how come half your kanji is missing?

[Darius]

I'm getting the feeling that Spies may actually only seem to effect public order, but in game mechanics wise it must be ignored because they dont actually rebel if your spies cause it to drop that little bit below rioting. While destroying temples and killing the governors on the other hand...that definitely has an effect. So maybe that could be the problem.