Cartouche Bee
Appropriations Consultant
In my current game the Persians have one city. They are in Democracy so they have to pay each turn for units they have, NOT! With zero gold, no saleable improvements and 100% research they get to keep and build more armies. If you or I were to try that we would lose all the units that could not be paid for. So, I wonder if AI ever have to pay for units under Democracy?