They also don’t add to your culture cost for social policies but add to your culture per turn, which is great. Puppet states focus on maximizing gold, so they’re a good way to build up an income. Hit to unhappiness is the same across all difficulties IIRC. Is it better to annex or puppet a city?Īlways puppet first if you’re going to annex so that you don’t have to deal with the extra unhappiness while in Resistance (unless you have the Iron Curtain policy in Order, which gives a free courthouse, but only if you annex right away). You usually shouldn’t raze unless the city is so bad it doesn’t produce more science than it costs to own the city (something like +2% or +5% tech and social policy cost per city you own).
