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- "The center of authority in this new system is no longer an all-powerful king but the system itself, invisible but omnipresent."
– Lewis Mumford
Absolutism is a Modern Age ideological 
Civic within the Fascism ideology in Civilization VII.
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Legalist scholar Shang Yang, the architect of the Qin Dynasty’s philosophical underpinnings, envisioned a society in which all served the state. People’s wild impulses would be controlled by a strict legal code, where all came to serve the state, and the state served Qin’s military machine. Peasants were forced to marry, inefficient farmers were enslaved, and efficient workers were rewarded. Qin was one of the first real authoritarian states – it would not be the last. The reach for a strong central state and a firm hand guiding the population (especially via the military) would be a feature of societies from Napoleonic Europe, Stalin’s USSR, and the fascist world. Authoritarians see human nature as inherently in need of guidance and often turn to strong leaders for that guidance. In Napoleon’s France (as in others), the chaos of radical reforms and the omnipresent threat of counter-revolution meant authoritarianism was a means of the state’s survival. But at what cost?
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| Antiquity | Standard | |
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| Exploration | Standard | |
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| Modern | Standard | |
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| 1 Requires DLC | ||
