Another in a never-ending list of mystery mechanics.

If you hover over the citizen does it show that they have an ideology? I think what that message is trying to say is that the citizen's ideology is opposed to one of the ideologies you've spent culture points in. Not 100% sure of that though.

Ya I think that comes from the individual citizens ideology being in opposition to your Civs selected primary ideology. If you hover your mouse over each individual citizen, you will see some of them have an ideology listed. If that citizens ideology is "diametrically opposed" to your civilizations ideology, then that citizen will get the happiness penalty.

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It is on all the citizens and only a few have an ideology.

Oh well that sounds buggy.

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Marxists are in.

Is the world under the influence of another civ? That could be the trigger.

It would be nice if someone from Stardock would actually answer our questions instead of making us play detective to figure out how the game works. This is a two-way street, Stardock. Do you want our feedback or not? It's a bit silly for us to pay for the privilege of participating in early access, to go out of our way to provide feedback, and then get completely ignored when we have comments or questions. Your lack of participation in this process has me questioning my decision to join the early access program.

Publius is right. The citizen has an ideology, it is opposed to the civilizations. For example, the citizen might have the "Authoritarian" ideology trait (you should see this trait on them) and your civilization may be Libertarian.

The "We hate our Culture" isn't very helpful since "Culture" is used to explain other things. I'll see about changing it to "We hate our authoritarian ideology" to be more clear.

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That contradicts this post:

It would be useful to have a save file from Philocthetes to confirm one way or another. Also "we" is very confusing in this context because according to you, the statement only appears to apply to an individual (singular) citizen. Or does the presence of a single idiologically-aligned individual sway the ideological alignment of the entire planet?