Dune: Awakening's player guilds will be able to pass some pretty OP server-wide laws—including one that means you'll lose everything when defeated in deep desert PvP

Players survey desert with a sandworm in the distance.

With survival MMO Dune: Awakening on the brink of release, Funcom has detailed one of the central features of the endgame: the Landsraad. In Dune's fiction, the Landsraad is a council made up of the heads of the Great Houses: most notably House Atreides and House Harkonnen. In a new video you can see below, Funcom explains how the Landsraad's political system has been adapted for the game.

In Dune: Awakening there are 25 lesser Houses (think of them as mission-giving entities), and each week those houses will choose to support either House Atreides or House Harkonnen, the two bigshots vying for control of the desert. The winner of the majority of those 25 House votes takes control of the world—and all the servers that make up that world—for the following week.