User Guide

improvements,completing the Small Wonder Forbidden Palace,and switching to a more
advanced form of government can counteract this loss.
War Weariness
It’s a truism that in war the peasants suffer the most.When you continually wage war,
your citizenry eventually get tired of it.This effect is known as war weariness.Under rep-
resentative governments (Republic and Democracy), when your citizens feel free to
express their distaste for military action,war weariness causes great unhappiness in your
cities.
A few factors cause increased war weariness.The most important ones are stationing
your units in enemy territory, enemies having troops in your territory, declaring war,
and engaging in battle. Having a rival declare war on you actually decreases war weari-
ness, perhaps because it relieves the prewar uncertainty and tension.
Governments
Another vital management tool is the type of government under which you operate
your civilization.Every civilization starts out as a Despotism, but some of the advances
you can research are intellectual in nature,
rather than technological, and these
include governmental concepts.Once you
have discovered a new form of govern-
ment, you can choose to support a revo-
lution in order to change government
types.
Anarchy, or the lack of government,
occurs only when you lose control—
either because you’ve called for a revolu-
tion or civil unrest has toppled the current
regime. Civil unrest continues as long as
conditions are ripe for it. In both cases,
your people’s attitude naturally stabilizes.
After a few turns, once your civilization
settles down, a dialog box appears listing
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