land trading
spy country
netting
war
suiciding
retals late set

Ahh, this is from Express. That would be your issue.
On alliance Commie is pretty much garbage, the key strat for it has no real longevity. Early wars, early retaling, early suiciding. The key word is early.

I am sure some nut job has taken a commie to the top 10 maybe even won with it, but certainly not optimal.

So on this server Dict > Commie but on express I have no doubt that Commie is a better govt and commie indy a viable strat.