Alfirin can be a very polite troublemaker. She'll wait until all the other business is done before bringing it up.

"If I may suggest one more item? I was moved by Freedom's interview yesterday, to consider the matter of alcohol. Lots of people are moved, by drink, to ruin their lives or the lives of people around them. It's bad for children - makes them grow up stupider, it's bad for pregnant women, it's bad for men who drink too much even if they have the decency and sense not to do anything dangerous while drunk or to hurt anyone else - America tried to ban it once, and I think Lastwall should think about trying too. In America it went badly because it empowered the…thieves' guilds, who became the only places that anyone who was interested could still find wine or liquor. I think Lastwall doesn't have a problem with organized crime, so it might work better here, and of course you have a god who answers questions who can venture an opinion."

"That…seems like an overreaction. And besides, what would people drink?"

"...water?"

"I don't know how it is in America but sometimes the water here in Golarion has sickness in it."

"You can clean water with Iodine, which as it happens can be refined as a byproduct of the process we're using for gunpowder."

"It would lower the number of soldiers getting drunk on duty, a problem which despite our best efforts we've failed to find any other solution to."

"Of course Veena Heliu, who never drinks any wine that hasn't been conjured up by a wizard, thinks we should just ban it in the entire country. It might help a smidge with discipline but it'd be a disaster for morale!"

"Endel."

"...Sorry, Veena."

"All is forgiven."

"I think it would have big enough effects, one way or the other, that we should put it to the Goddess. We still ought to debate whether we think it's a good idea, but not for more than…ten minutes, I think. Anyone else opposed?"

Hands go up. "Endel's right, about morale, sir. The men won't like it."

(In a democracy, you have much less of that problem, because you bring about Prohibition through a vote and by the time you attain it the majority of your population, definitionally, were trying to make it happen. Iomedae's Not Commenting but this is physically effortful.)

Some hands also stay down. "I think the discipline concerns may be overriding, actually."

"We've been over this before! The tradeoff is just not worth it, if someone's drinking too much on duty we can still drum them up on charges for that, it's almost always harmless, and we haven't had a case of a sentry drunk on duty in twenty years!"

"And yet. Alfirin, tell me about artillery guns."

She blinks. "Ma'am? Er - sure, artillery. They fire heavier missiles than handheld guns, they can tear through fortifications and armor pretty effectively, the shells can be filled with explosives to do that even better -"

"What happens when one is improperly loaded?"

Aha. "Well, I wouldn't make the kind where the artilleryman sets a charge rather than just putting in a shell... but if it's aimed sloppily maybe the projectile doesn't go far enough, lands among our own men. Or it overshoots the enemy.  Worst case it explodes if it's not maintained or if the breech isn't closed properly..."

"What if someone's drunk in the factory? What's the worst that could happen then?"

"Machine shops, chemical plants - they or someone else could lose a limb easily. Or their head. Munitions plants - we've tried quite hard to idiotproof them, so maybe nothing. But we've tried that hard because a bad enough mistake there and the whole plant would go up."

"And what if someone's working in the munitions plant and they're perfectly sober but sad about it, what's the worst case there?"

"...Sad enough to try to kill themselves and all their coworkers in a giant explosion?"

"Let's say no."

"...Then, nothing, I think."