Government Civics:

Icon	Civic Name	Description
	Despotism	Despotism means that a single individual holds absolute power in a state. It has had different meanings at different points in history, but the way it is used in Civilization 4, it most likely refers to the method of Government used in ancient Egypt, where the Pharao had unlimited power over all his subjects for example to enact or change a law at will.
	Hereditary Rule	Hereditary Rule causes military units in cities to increase happiness. Hereditary Rule is a form of government wherein the rulership is passed down from one member of the family to the next. This kind of succession is most often associated with monarchical rulers, but it occasionally appears in despotisms or even purportedly communist regimes.
	Representation	REPRESENTATION TRANSLATED REPRESENTASJON. Strategy : provides extra happiness in its adopter's largest cities and extra research from city specialists. Civilopedia Entry In a representative government the population elects a number of "representatives" to run the government on their behalf. The representatives serve for a limited time and then must stand for reelection. These representatives form a group (council, parliament, senate, etc.) that determines and implements government policy. In some cases the gdddovernment may have a monarch at its head, while in other cases there may be a separately elected ruler (as in the United States), or the representatives themselves may elect one or more of their members to be the executive power.
politi		Under a police state the government maintains strict control over its population by means of a police force ( often a ”secret” police form like Gestapo). Civil liberties are denied and those who voice opinions contrary to the government are subject to punishment. yolo
	Universal Suffrage	Andrea og Ina: Universal Suffrage means that everyone can vote… etc. (the same as Line and Charlene) Line og Charlene: Universal sufferage means extending the vote to everyone, regardless of race, creed og gender. The universal sufferage is usually less than totally univeral; in the United States, for example, one must be 18 years old to vote, and being convincted of certain criminal offenses results in permanent loss of sufferage. The positive side of universal sufferage is that everyone is allowed an equal say in electing those who will run the country. the negative side is that this includes eveyone regardless of intelligence, honesty, or any other characteristic.

Legal Civics:

Icon	Civic Name	Description
	Barbarism
	Vassalage
	Bureaucracy	Bureaucracy (byråkrati) is a form of government in witch a professional class manages the day to day operations of the government, they collect the taxes, they build the roads, they turn the ruler’s wishes into actuality. Bureaucracies provide a certain amount of stability and competence to a government ensuring that the government will continue to operate efficiently even if the old ruler is thrown out and a new and totally inexpirienced ruler takes his or her place. over time, though, a bureacracy mat become “entrenched” - growing in size and inefficiency to the point where it is extremely difficult for a leader to accomplish anything - good or ill.
	Nationhood	Nationhood is when a group have a common identity like history, religion and language. When people in a nation have a common identity they will be more stable. Nationalism is almost the same as nationhood, where nationalism wanted to have a pure nation with one common people. This idea was strong in the mid and late 19th century in Europe when Germany and Italy was united, and when new national state at Balkan became independent. World War 1 was triggered by Serbia, because of the serbs in Bosnia was not in the same nation as their brothers and sisters in Serbia. They wanted a nationhood.
	Free Speech	Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate one’s opinions and ideas. Freedom of speech is a universal human right under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, also known as the Human Rights Declaration. Freedom of speech is a right to express themselves about politics, religion and other factors in different medium.

Labor Civics:

Icon	Civic Name	Description
	Tribalism	Tribalism is a kind of an organization where they have no leader. All of the members in the tribe have to participate in every way they can. If the tribe needs food, they send out the best hunter, if the tribe is under attack, they send out the best warrior and so on…
	Slavery	Norwegian: Slaveri. Slavery is when a human being is being treated as property. Slaves often gets bought and sold, and they got no rights. Slavery was one of the reasons to the American civil war. Most slaves were black and African. They got forced to leave their home country and got brought to example America and sold as slaves. Slavery is now illegal all around the world with Mauritania as the last country to outlaw it.
	Serfdom	Serfdom is the status of peasants under feudalism , specifically relating to manorialism . F.eks. A slave owned in the same manner as an object , is it only the serf labor as owned, not the person himself. Do not know how it affects the play
	Caste System	The caste system is a way to split the population in to groups based upon their social status, job and economy. The system was first used thousands of years ago in India, as a part of the hinduistic religion.
	Emancipation	The process of redistributing power from a central geographic location to a less central location. In this context power is fuctions, powers, people or things.

Economic Civics:

Icon	Civic Name	Description
	Decentralization	Any efforts of procuring political rights or equality, for example in groups, states or countries.
	Mercantilism	Strategy Mercantilism provides a free specialist in each city and nullifies the effects of foreign corporations, but prevents the establishment of foreign trade routes. Effect Mercantalism is about a country deciding which products that should be produced and who should produce it. This often leads to imperialism and making colonies around the globe in order to gather resources. Mercantilism is about not sharing resources in order for a country to gain as much wealtPOOPh as possible.
	Free Market	A free market is that the government is trying to impose price control allowances or other artificial restrictions on production. A State may have some free markets while maintaining more control over others that it considers critical to the state's survival; in modern times usually include the production and distribution of energy and the production of weapon.
	State Property	An economy where the citizens do not have any private property. The state owns everything foe example factories, farms, universities and basically everything else. A citizen can own clothes, furnitures and a veichle, but everything else has been given to them by the state. Russia has state property, because they have communism.
	Environmentalism	To care about the nature, and do things to protect it. Today we have a huge emission of CO2 which inpacts the nature in a negative way. Started in the 1970s when the people realized that we were inpacting the nature with our CO2 emissions.

Religion Civics:

Icon	Civic Name	Description
	Paganism	Paganism is a religion that believes that everything around them is holy. Example of this is stones, animals, trees and so on. They believe in multiple Gods, and that there are Gods all around them.One of the oldest religions, and no country has paganism as religion.
	Organized Religion	An Organized Religion is when there is a central authority that determines or interprets theology. The authorities are powerful within the religion. They have to decide different directions like which ceremonies are to be performed, and get priests or holy men to keep worshipers on the correct path. An organized religion can be mighty, but usually they are less powerful and have to live in uneasy harmony with the locals and the government.
	Theocracy	A theocracy is a form of government where priests or holy men are in charge of the government. The government is run to benefit the people, but, more importantly, in accord with the wishes of the almighty, as interpreted by the holy men and priests.
	Pacifism	Pacifism is the opposite of violence and war, it is a religious belief that says all violence and conflict is against the will of God. Under no circumstances should one turn to the act of violence. If someone beats you, you simply turn your back and walk away. You will get your reward for doing so in the afterlife, meanwhile the person who used the act of violence will suffer for what he/she did.
	Free Religion	The principle of free religion is that groups or individuals can decide, what and who they want to believe in. In this society no single religion is dominant, and the citizens are allowed to express their religious or non religious beliefs.