local government

[baseballfan45]

in ancient times and the middle ages governments of empires that were very spread out sometimes let cities keep their local government when they were conqured. this kept the local people happy. to implement this in civ terms you would click on a city far away from the capitol that you conqured and would select the option "instal local officials". this would greatly reduce corruption in far away cities. a downside of doing this perhaps is you should recieve less gold from that particular city. just some ideas

 

[KrikkitTwo]

I think that you could do this if individual City's had individual 'government relations' with their Civ. The degree of local autonomy would be one of those (they might have their own troops and units for defense/local improvement, control their own build queue) So their 'contribution' to the system would change. (They may actually give your empire less, but take care of themselves and be more happy)