let me just crash into this nicely coherent train of ideas with a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT thing..
a while ago i suggested negative and abysmal "wonders"..like the Berlin Wall/Iron Curtain, The Great Firewall of China, Stalinist Purges, The Killing Fields/Holodomor/Cultural Revolution, Fake News (Project Mockingbird), Industrial scale organ harvesting...(...)...and maybe (causing a declaration of war by all democratic governments upon completion) Auschwitz. It would only be possible to build these under certain civ slot choices (dictatorships with state party, ideology and so forth) making them more interesting for the human player to chose. as of now, if you chose democracy and capitalism, you just steam right through the game. i wanna be able to play a totalitarian hellhole with thought control and concentration camps (well, not really, but it would be a nice change of gameplay) AND free enterprise (like the PR China..which is trying hard right now to out-Orwell Black Mirror).
admittedly, that's all VERY grim and bleak...but history is no disney cartoon, and maybe this could be reflected by those horror "wonders". they should also be free to be built by any player and multiple times.
imagine: a civ turns fascist. builds a negative wonder. gets a boost...war happens. gov changes. democracy....the immersion this would bring!
so...again, i'd love your input on that. leo, you think this is too much? i am no coder, so you guys tell me if this is even feasible to implement.