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your report Wrote:I don't switch to Representation immediately as I suspect the upkeep cost would actually be too much to handle before I have the population growth and infrastructure to actually run the specialists.
Check out my game - I adopted Police State at one point, and even though it was a high upkeep civ, because my empire was so small (both in terms of number of cities and size of cities), according to F2 it didn't cost me even 1 gp.
Your empire looked a little bigger, but it may have been worth checking out how much it would have cost you