What happens when a city state captures a city that cannot be razed?

Question

If a city state captures a city that cannot be razed, what happens?

The examples where this will happen, that I can think of, are:

• An original main-Civ capital under the original owners control.
• An original main-Civ capital under another Civ's control.
• Another City State that has been previously captured by another Civ.

Answer

Normally a City State will just raze any city that it managed to capture.

This could make giving a City State lots of units a handy way to destroy a city or two in the vicinity of the City States (remember they don't roam far from thier borders) without getting the world mad at you; you just have to ensure the CS stays at war with the target player until the desired target is destroyed.

However, for any city that it captures that cannot be razed - that is the original capital cities of the main Civ players and any other City States - the capturing City State simply takes the city as a puppet, leading to the odd scenario where a City State player controls more than one city!

What they do not do is liberate the target if it could - for example in my current game Venice has just captured Stockholm, which was being held by the Aztecs. They didn't liberate Stockholm, just took it as a puppet, and so Venice now controls both cities (and the Stockholm player is still "out" of the game).

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