Was playing as china, large map continent, epic. I took over my continent quite early and left most of the cities as puppets. I only have 4 core cities. My culture is giving me 200 per turn from my city states. I managed to get most of the patronage, piety and autocracy tree. The last tech in the autocracy tree amazed me.....reduced occupied city pop unhappiness by 50%. I was fighting a long drawn out war with bismark on the other continent. He has out tech, out produce me with 40k in his bank. My empire happiness was +9. I managed to took one city off him and accidentally select annex the city. My happiness jump to 20. I was surprised.... I then annexed all the cities in my continent one by one. My happiness soared up to 104.....
Then i started to build courthouse in all these cities. Guess what. The happiness dropped by 4 with each courthouse built.
Then i started to build courthouse in all these cities. Guess what. The happiness dropped by 4 with each courthouse built.
