I read the title, and my head-space jumped to empire where BTU stands for Bureaucratic Time Unit. This was a measure of how many actions you could take in a uni

I read the title, and my head-space jumped to empire where BTU stands for Bureaucratic Time Unit. This was a measure of how many actions you could take in a unit amount of time before your capital’s bureaucracy was exhausted; once you have none left, you have to wait for some real time to pass before you can do anything else. This meant that declaring war on another player’s country at the traditional time of 2am their-time still only gave you a limited advantage.