Courthouse (Civ2)

Courthouse
Advance required	Code of Laws
Buildings required	None
Cost	80
Maintenance	1
Effect	Decreases Corruption by 50%. Makes city more resistant to bribery by enemy diplomats and spies. Under Democracy, one content citizen becomes happy.

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The Courthouse is an administrative city improvement in Civilization II, available with the Code of Laws advance. It decreases corruption and waste by 50%, and increases the cost for rival espionage units to incite a revolt.

Under a Democratic government, the Courthouse makes one content citizen happy. The Courthouse cannot be built in the Capital, as the Palace supersedes its effect.

Strategy

The Courthouse works by halving the effective distance of the host city from the civilization's Capital. This reduces corruption and waste proportionally, providing a greater net benefit to distant settlements. In a civ with no active Capital, Courthouses will remove half the city's total corruption. Communist, Fundamentalist, and Democratic governments are equivalent to 0-tile distance and so do not require courthouses to mitigate corruption.

Courthouses increase the base price required to incite a revolt by approximately 60%. It is therefore advisable to sabotage the Courthouse beforehand to reduce the total cost.

As Democracy is immune to bribery, the Courthouse's primary effects are redundant; it instead acts as a happiness improvement, making one Content citizen Happy.

A city hosting both the Palace and a Courthouse receives no additional benefit: the former supersedes the latter's effect.

Civilopedia entry

As kingdoms and empires expanded, it became increasingly difficult for the rulers to maintain control over the more distant regions of their realm. To ensure that the far-flung cities of the empire contributed their expected share of duties and taxes to the government, local magistrates and courts were established. In the courthouse, the ruler's representatives listened to the grievances of the people and defined and enforced the laws that governed social interaction. This reduced crime, and thereby kept the local population productive.

See also

• Courthouse in other games

City improvements in Civilization II [edit]
Defense	City Walls Coastal Fortress SAM Missile Battery SDI Defense
Efficiency	Corruption	Courthouse Palace
	Pollution	Mass Transit Recycling Center
Growth	Food	Granary Harbor Supermarket
	Population	Aqueduct Sewer System
Happiness	Cathedral Colosseum Police Station Temple
Industry	Production	Factory Manufacturing Plant Offshore Platform
	Power	Hydro Plant Nuclear Plant Power Plant Solar Plant
Science	Research	Library Research Lab University
	Spaceship	SS Component SS Module SS Structural
Trade	Bank Capitalization Marketplace Stock Exchange Superhighways
Units	Airport Barracks Port Facility Transporter1
Related pages	List of improvements City Wonder
1 Only featured in Test of Time.