Taking the opposite angle , having moved from the UK to Switzerland . People drink , but UK style binge drinking andor drunken antics are just not a thing where I live . The High Streets are doing so well , and there are no charityshops or bookies no gambling other than a few casinos taking up half the units like back at home . Almost everybody bikes . <| sep |> They start ahead of you with their crazy bonuses , but you can abuse the AI strategic thinking to catch up . Basically , as long as you can survive the first 50 turns without someone Gilgamesh taking all your shit , then you can survive the rest . It ' s probably not worth it to go for early came wonders I usually build units first for survival purposes , but it ' s easy to beat them at war because they are so bad at it . It just feels insurmountable at first , because they start with settlers and a bunch of extra techs .