Citizenship (Civ5)

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Citizenship is a social policy in Civilization V. It is part of the Liberty tree.

Strategy

The Citizenship system of rights and privileges of people belonging to this nation over foreigners is a powerful tool to attract new citizens to your empire. They appear under the form of a free Worker near the CapitalCapital. Besides that, new recruits are conscripted to speed up the improvement of the land around your cities.

This is a starting (level 1) Policy, and a great way to save yourself some building time in the beginning of the game. Not only you get a free Worker (which usually takes 10+ turns to build at the beginning of the game!), but it, and all future Workers, become more effective at their main occupation - building Improvements ! Consider, however, the state of your technological research at that time. If the land and Resources around your starting city demand more advanced techs to be developed, then you will be wasting a Policy and your Worker won't be able to help you much!

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Game Info

Tile improvement construction rate increased by 25% and a Worker appears near the Capital Capital.

Historical Info

Citizenship is the policy of a nation that acknowledges that a certain group of people, usually based upon their race or tribe or where they were born, are members of that nation, and as such, deserve a certain amount of protection as well as some rights and privileges, above and beyond those accorded to foreigners. For example, a citizen can often move around the country freely, while a non-citizen may be subject to deportation or imprisonment if discovered by the authorities.