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Anti-Tourism Policy

Adds the Closed Country policy, which nullifies all generated tourism, preventing the user (but not their competitors) from winning a Culture victory. This is particularly useful if you want to use monopolies for their economic benefits, but don't want the extremely large tourism modifier they generate to catapult you into a Culture win when pursuing another victory type.

The policy only affects international tourism - the "domestic tourism" stat used to determine what number of tourists other civilizations must reach to win a culture victory is unaffected. Therefore, you will still be able to prevent other civs from winning a culture victory by generating a culture faster than they can generate tourism.

Note that the number of tourists you attract is based on lifetime cumulative tourism, so when you slot this policy in, you will likely keep most of your existing tourists. Therefore you may still win a culture victory in some contexts, e.g. if you already had a large lifetime cumulative tourism and you conquer the civ with the highest domestic tourism, lowering the victory threshold to below your number of existing tourists. If you plan on aggressively sabotaging other civs and still don't want to win a culture victory, it is a good idea to plug this card in as soon as you start generating significant tourism.