In my current Gaul campaign (hard/hard), the SPQR bribed away a couple of my cities. Now, when I play SPQR myself, I immediately run into negative money. So I was a bit surprised they had money to bribe with. So I looked at their finances with the graph bar, and they seemed to be doing fine!

No I know there is NO WAY they could be generating so much money under normal rules. Their Rome stack should bankrupt them in a couple of turns. So they must have a bonus of some sort.

Anyone studied this? and does the AI cheat on medium?