Real life Civilzation analogies

[Theben]

Originally posted by rah
Yep and if I don't run emancipation and let the women vote, my wife and daughter become very unhappy.

Try running Universal Sufferage also. That way when they go to town, you can be more productive.

[Solomwi]

Originally posted by Unimatrix11
I think Russia is more like trying to prevent a US-domination victory, the E.U., Japan, Australia, South America (except Venezuela) being vassals pretty much. Whats left is Arabia (just lost two cities, forming a new vassal Civ of the US), India, China and Russia. But the US probably meets the landmass-percentage required for DV already...

Well, but as said, civ isnt really a real life analogy. So none of this should be taken as some kind of seriuous analisys.

But it brings me to an idea: Maybe another victory option, that could be called economic victory, should be, when a civ (including its vassals) holds every single ressource of oil, for a certain amount of turns, before some tech, that makes oil obsolete, is researched.

Of course, as soon as Georgia started losing units and land, they looked around for a strong civ to take them in as a vassal.

[Unimatrix11]

I think they were trying to do that even before the war. The other vassals, like the E.U. didnt want that though and Russia intervened, before it was too late (or would cause all-out war). You know how annoying it is, when your small neighbor, with only one city left, becomes a vassal of your strong opponent... better crush him, before it comes to that, right ?

[Blaupanzer]

Has the US, at least in analogy come to a situation where we are running Universal Suffrage versus Fascism? At least as they are portrayed in Civ? Are there real life examples of some of the other civics in effect in the modern world?

[Diadem]

I'd say the US is still running Universal Suffrage. Combined with Free Speech, Emancipation, State Property and Theocracy.

EU is running the same civics except for Bureaucracy and Free Religion.

Russia seems to be running Police State and Mercantilism.