Hmm... this is puzzling. The edit's simple and copied from Meritocracy:
Code:
<Policies>
<Update>
<Where Type="POLICY_DEMOCRACY" />
<Set NumFreeGreatPeople="1" />
</Update>
</Policies>
I double-checked for spelling and everything seems to be set up right. Unless anyone can spot a mistake, my only conclusion is a vanilla (=unfixable) bug with the new "NumFreeGreatPeople" attribute, so I'll remove the "choose" version from the policy and just add a single great person... possibly a great engineer? It'd be somewhat helpful at that point in time for just about any victory path... particularly the Statue of Liberty since it's in a Specialist-focused tree.