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Because of its very unusual non-zero sum game mechanic, many economics professors use this game to teach concepts of comparative advantage and other economics concepts.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Jean the pirate.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: Being in the lead can be bad; players will stop trading with you, rob you, and generally direct all of their development/progress cards towards keeping you down. In fact, leading the whole game and winning is [[Determinator|somewhat of a feat]].
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* [[Expanded Universe]]: At the time of this edit, there are: a novel, a computer game with a story, characters with personalities and a lot of minor characters who appear in the card game and adventure games. Even the robber was made into three characters with their own comics.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: Players will often re-name resources and other items to their liking. Ore will be ''rocks'', grain will be ''wheat'', clay becomes ''bricks'', and wool is usually ''sheep''. The Barbarians are also commonly shortened to ''Barbs''.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: ''Settlers of Zarahemla'' is a [[Book of Mormon]]-themed clone of ''Settlers of Catan''. Though being scripture-themed, it is not actually a [[Moral Substitute]]
* [[Fourth Wall Observer]]: Magistrate William, author of the famous treatise "The World as a Buildup Strategy Game", which proposes that reality is nothing more than a bunch of hexes, cards and dice.
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: Pretty much any trade request or statement involving the wood resource. Like, "I have so much wood in my hands right now", or "I have wood for sheep".
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