How do I build a courthouse in a captured city?

Question

I captured an enemy city, and my advisors informed me that the city will produce a lot of unhappiness until I build a courthouse there. However, the production in the city is 0, so no actual progress is being made. I don't have the option to buy the Courthouse either (all options under Purchase are grayed out, despite having more than enough gold).

So how am I supposed to build a courthouse?

Answer

After capturing a city, there are several turns of no production.

If you created the city as a puppet, you don't have any say on what the city builds, but it produces less unhappiness than an annexed city.

If you annexed the city, you should be able to choose to produce a courthouse (given that it has been researched and is not already built in the city), but this will of course only happen after the period of no production following the cities' capture.

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