User Guide

SERFDOM
Tech Requirement: Feudalism
Upkeep: Low
Effect: Workers build improvements 50% faster.
Serfdom is a more “enlightened” form of slavery in that the
power of the master is not absolute and the serfs are accorded
a few rights – the right to marry whom they want, perhaps, or
the right to own a goat.
CASTE SYSTEM
Tech Requirement: Code of Laws
Upkeep: Medium
Effect: Unlimited artist, merchant and scientist specialists in a
city.
The caste system is one where one’s parentage determines
one’s place in society.
EMANCIPATION
Tech Requirement: Democracy
Upkeep: None
Effect: Cuts in half the time it takes for cottages to turn into
hamlets, then villages, then towns; gives an unhappiness penal-
ty for civilizations not employing this civic.
Emancipation refers to the abolition of slavery, serfdom, and
caste system.
Economic Civics
DECENTRALIZATION
Tech Requirement: None
Upkeep: Low
Effect: None.This is the default economic civics.
Decentralization describes an economy in which the central
government doesn’t attempt to manage the nation’s production.
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MERCANTILISM
Tech Requirement: Banking
Upkeep: Medium
Effect: +1 free specialist per city, no foreign trade routes.
Mercantilism refers to government policy that strictly manages
the nation’s economy.The nation may ban all foreign imports.
FREE MARKET
Tech Requirement: Economics
Upkeep: Low
Effect: +1 trade route per city.
A free market system is similar to a decentralized system except
that the state maintains some minimal control over the system.
STATE PROPERTY
Tech Requirement: Communism
Upkeep: None
Effect: No maintenance costs from distance from palace, +1
food from workshops and watermills.
The citizens have no private property: everything belongs to
the State.
ENVIRONMENTALISM
Tech Requirement: Ecology
Upkeep: High
Effect: +5 health in all cities, +1 happiness from forest and
jungle spaces.
Environmentalism describes a society in which every effort is
made to remain in balance with nature.
Religious Civics
PAGANISM
Tech Requirement: None
Upkeep: Low
Effect: None.The default religion civic.
“Paganism” describes religions that believe in the holiness of all
things around them – rocks, trees, animals, clouds and so forth
– rather than in specific concepts or beings.
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