Re: smallpox

another way to combat smallpox is to make the space available to the
city to work on grow with city size.  right now a common situation is
that there are two juicy tiles that no city can work alone, so two city
are founded.

adjusting unhappiness and pollution would also be necessary:

1. unhappy should start not with 4 (or 3 for large civilizations) but
   with [max(city size/2,4)]

2. pollution should be "distributed" over the workable land, so a large
   city with lots of land should be able to produce more without pollution.

3. more aggressive (field) units should be acceptable for a large city.
   e.g., [city size/4]+1 for democracy and [city size/3]+1 for republic


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