Autocracy (Civ5)

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Autocracy is a social policy tree in Civilization V. It is available at the start of the Industrial Era and cannot be active at the same time as Order or Freedom in vanilla and Gods & Kings.

In Brave New World it got converted from a social policy tree to an Ideology.

Game Info

Vanilla and Gods & Kings

Autocracy is for militaristic civilizations, dreaming of world conquest.

Adopting Autocracy reduces Unit Gold Maintenance costs by 33%, allowing an empire to field a larger military. Receive 10 Culture as plunder for each point of Culture produced in captured city ( only).

Adopting all Policies in the Autocracy tree will grant:

• a 20% attack bonus to all Military Units for 30 turns (Vanilla)
• a 25% attack bonus to all Military Units for 50 turns. May purchase Great Generals and Great Admirals with Faith ()

Policy	Effect	Requirement
Populism	Wounded military units deal +25% damage than normal.	Adopting Autocracy
Militarism	Gold cost of purchasing units reduced by 33%.	Adopting Autocracy
Police State	+3 Happiness (local city Happiness in ) from every Courthouse. Build Courthouses in half the usual time. The effectiveness of enemy spies is reduced by 25% and your counterspies have a 25% increased chance of catching enemy spies ( only).	Militarism
Fascism	Quantity of Strategic Resources produced by the empire increased by 100%. All Great Generals receive +2 Movement ( only).	Populism & Militarism
Total War	+15% (+25% in ) Production when building Military Units and new Military Units start with +15 Experience.	Police State & Fascism

Brave New World

Main article: Ideology_(Civ5) § Autocracy

Strategy

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Civilopedia entry

In an autocracy, one person holds ultimate power. This person is not answerable to anyone - parliament, the nobility, or the people at large. An autocrat may be a dictator who seized power at the head of the military, or he may be a monarch who was born into the position. Or, indeed, the people may have voted him into power. But however he got there, the autocrat is now in charge and cannot be countermanded.

Related achievements

Diplomacy by Other Means Fully Explore the Autocracy Policy Track. The German general and tactician Carl von Clausewitz in his most famous work On War, asserted that "war is merely the continuation of policy by other means". Although not intended to be taken literally, it has nevertheless become a famous quotation across the world today. This achievement is not working with Brave New World.

See also

• Autocracy in other games