Would you include the part where almost every technology you researched in the past made life worse or would they just hate technology for no reason in the game?

Is this some mad alternate reality where Americans don't invent any future technology?

So, "If only you could talk to the monsters" but at the level of this genre?

I mean that's kinda how Civ works already. Some civs get bonuses for education & research, others in combat, etc, and focusing on the things incompatible with your civ will "punish" you.

It sounds like you just don't agree with how they've implemented America lol.

What would prioritizing education mean in Civilization? The game's model is fairly simple:

1. There are three resources: food, industrial production, and commercial activity;

2. As the player, you can divide commercial activity between three categories: research, state revenue, and local "luxuries", which in this context just means tax relief;

3. Scientific progress occurs when you've produced enough research to learn a new technology;

4. The only appearance of "education" anywhere in the game is that there is an expensive building called a "university" that increases local production of research. (The predecessor building with the same effect at a lower cost is the "library".)

On the other hand, "there is always division and infighting" is one of the most important and fundamental mechanics in the game; if your city grows beyond a quite small population cap, new citizens are automatically unhappy and will shut down the whole city unless pacified somehow.

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