![]() Monarchy and communism are popular choices for players embarking on extended military campaigns (as is fundamentalism in the civ2 ruleset). ![]() Most players race to achieve the republic and democracy so they can expand their cities through rapture and boost their science output with expanded trade. This plunges your empire into anarchy for one to five turns, after which you may select any available form of government. You may change governments as often as you like, once a new kind is made available by the discovery of its similarly named technology, by selecting the appropriate option from the "Government > Change Government" menu. You begin your career as a despot, with your cities suffering heavy corruption until you gain the technology to impose more effective government. Modern participatory government and free enterprise eliminate corruption, allowing trade and science to thrive - but free citizens agitate most strongly against warfare. The people respond to freedom with increased trade under this ancient form of government, but disapprove of military action. With science and industry come the tools to impose military control over the workers and implement a planned economy, while suffering only a slight but uniform level of corruption. Written laws and uniform religion offer the monarch power enough to support an active military while keeping corruption from overwhelming trade. Lacking written words or laws, you rule simply through the force of personality - whose effect decreases rapidly with distance from your capital, leading to heavy corruption. When granted representative government they are efficient and productive, but demonstrate against the use of military force by becoming unhappy. Under autocratic regimes your citizens readily support the military, but reduce your trade income through corruption. There are several forms of government with which you can rule your civilization, but none offers complete control.
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