User Guide

UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
Tech Requirement: Democracy
Upkeep: Medium
Effect: +1 production from town, can spend gold to complete
production of a unit/building in a city.
Universal suffrage means extending the vote to everyone,
regardless of race, creed, or gender.
Legal Civics
BARBARISM
Tech Requirement: None
Upkeep: Low
Effect: No effect.
Barbarism is the most primitive legal system. Under barbarism,
the strong take what they want from the weak.
VASSALAGE
Tech Requirement: Feudalism
Upkeep: High
Effect: New military units receive +2 free experience points;
lower unit support costs.
Vassalage is a feudal term referring to the system in which a
person enters a contract with his or her lord, agreeing to serve
and protect the lord in return for monetary rewards or sover-
eignty over a parcel of land.
BUREAUCRACY
Tech Requirement: Civil Service
Upkeep: Medium
Effect: +50% production and gold income in capital city.
Bureaucracy is a form of government in which a professional
class manages the day-to-day operations of the state.
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NATIONHOOD
Tech Requirement: Nationalism
Upkeep: Low
Effect: Can “draft” (see “Advanced Cities”) 3 units per turn,
barracks provide +2 happiness.
A “nation” is a group of people sharing some kind of common
identity. Nations may be united by language, location, custom,
history, or religion (or any combination of them).
FREE SPEECH
Tech Requirement: Liberalism
Upkeep: None
Effect: +2 gold from towns, +100% culture in each city.
The term “free speech” describes a legal system in which a per-
son cannot be stopped from saying anything he or she wants,
as long as the speech doesn’t cause immediate harm to those
around him or her.
Labor Civics
TRIBALISM
Tech Requirement: None
Upkeep: Low
Effect: None.The default labor civic.
Tribalism is a form of organization which emphasizes the tribe
as the sole unit of importance. Individuals have no rights; each
man, woman and child exists only to support the tribe.
SLAVERY
Tech Requirement: Bronze Working
Upkeep: Low
Effect: Can sacrifice population to complete building/unit
production in a city.
Slavery is a system whereby some people are judged far inferi-
or to others and are treated as possessions.
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