Apparently I recently ran into a little loophole in the governement/MIC system. I captured an enemy city I wasn't planning to keep and duly massacred the populace and dismantled everything I could for quick cash. Then I cranked the tax to max and the army continued elsewhere - no garrison, happiness 0%, oughta revolt soon right ?

Something like twenty turns later I'm still kind of wondering when that completely empty city is going to stop just rioting and will start actually rebelling - to the former owner or Eleutheroi - out of my control.

I figure the prolem is that with neither MIC nor a governement building in the city it cannot "spawn" any military units at all that could take over the place and thus remains under my control, happiness solidly stuck at zero and the riot message popping up about every other turn.

I'm thinking I should build the minimum-level MIC and the cheap-ass Type 4 governement so the place can revolt properly; right now it feels like an exploit (since I still get the tax money), and I can't even pawn the place off to any other faction.