Each player represents a major religion attempting to spread throughout the population of over more than half of the territories on a map depicting the Middle East and Asia. The game is played using a custom deck containing two types of cards: Magnitude Cards and Event Cards. The religions represented in the game, and their starting territories, are as follows: Shinto (Japan), Taoism (South China), Confucianism (North China), Buddhism (South India), Jainism (North India), Hinduism (East India), Sikhism (West India), Zoroastrianism (Iran), Islam (Arabia), Judaism (South Israel), Christianity (North Israel).