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Police State is a social policy in Civilization V. It is part of the Autocracy tree and requires Militarism. In Brave New World it is a Level 2 Autocracy tenet with the same effect.
Game Info[]
+3 
Local Happiness from every Courthouse. Build Courthouses in half the usual time.
Civilopedia entry[]
Any government - whether left- or right-wing - that exercises rigid and repressive control over the social, economic, cultural and political life of its citizens can be said to be a Police State. A Police State is often characterized by totalitarianism and militarism, with civil liberties limited and a large internal security system in place to monitor personal activities. The term, according to the Oxford Dictionary, was first used in 1851 in several obscure German tracts; in the 1930s it came to be used in the press to describe the totalitarian and communistic governments of the time.
See also[]
- Police State in other games