Aha yes ok. It's not meant to be postcolonialism in the sense decolonization of empire in an active military/revolutionary way (rebellion) since that doesn't really make sense to adopt from the perspective of the ruler (and from the perspective of the ruled--or their allies--this would be more like the Freedom tenet)
Instead it's meant to be postcolonialism in sense of shifting domestic policy with respect to conquered-now-integrated peoples as a result of the various postmodern developments. (Both those that have happened IRL and also those that maybe haven't been widespread, yet) So the mainstreaming of anti-racist sentiment, racial/geographical equality through reform and reparations, aid and investment/join partnership, etc.
So the
on Courthouses is meant to stand for reparations. The trade routes stand for increased (non-exploitative) commerce and the lowering of tariffs/(post)imperial mercantilist policies/preference.The trade routes is the more hand-wavy effect, but it's important for the gameplay synergy of the tenets.
If you think there's a better term to describe this I'm completely open to renaming it.
I like your idea of a combat bonus near puppet/occupied Cities! I don't think we have that at the moment in the database but we can think about adding it. As a tenet it is quite close to the Patriotic War effect, but there may be more general use on a Wonder, Unique Unit, or just an earlier Policy tree (Progress?!)
