Literacy

Literacy (Page 1)
In Common Universalis, Literacy reflects how 'civilized' a province is, and can be seen as the fourth type of 'development'. So, what does Literacy do? It does almost everything as it should - speeding up Urbanization rate, increasing Governance Capacity, unlocking Institution spread and allowing province mobilization.

However, high Literacy is not always a good thing. For example, Higher Literacy means higher GC output from your primary culture, but also higher GC consumption by unaccepted cultures. High literacy in a province with unaccepted culture also cause nationalism to spawn, which may give birth to rebellion and independence.

Literacy (Page 2)
Province's yearly literacy growth can be increased by many means. Religious buildings are great in provinces with high Agriculture as they reduce Agriculture's penalty on Literacy Growth. University increases literacy growth not only in the province where it is built, but in all state provinces as well. In the late game, Public School can rocket local literacy growth, but unlike University,it does not have any nationwide effect.

There are many other ways to increase literacy. Highly urbanized provinces have much higher literacy growth compared with the poorly ones; Province Edict 'Fund Church School' further reduces Agriculture's penalty and provides more basic growth at the cost of commercial tax loss; Innovativeness Ideas gives +25% Literacy Growth when completed; Printing press and tech sharing within Holy Roman Empire gives additional Literacy Growth; Some countries, like Russia, has unique decisions to encourage Literacy growth.