The Council of Governors meets approximately every ten years to vote on potential winners of the game. The first step in this process is the nomination of two great powers. The Council Makes this determination largely on the basis of industrial might.

Once two great powers are nominated the governor of each province votes for one of the two nominees or else abstains. At the beginning of the game most governors will abstain unless their own country is one of the nominees.

As the game continues fewer governors will abstain. When one great power receives the votes of over half of the total provinces that power wins the game.