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The Hidden Costs of a Republic
Be careful about switching to Republic too soon. If you have lots of settlers around (as I suggest) then you'll quickly starve them because of doubling of food support.
"I am playing on the King Level, and I recently switched from Monarchy to Republic. I had a bunch of cities, ranging up to size 14 (captured from the Babylonians), and I immediately had problems with famines. I did not have many cathedrals (the evil Yanks had built Michelangelo's Chapel), and popularity was a problem. I then switched to Communism, and I am awash in food. During my brief stint as a Republican, I lost several engineers to the famine. As a Commisar, I am building new engineers and am growing my population. Long live Marx (Groucho, that is)!" (B. Alan Guthrie)
