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Civil service, an Uncommon card
The civil service, also referred to in some countries as the public service, is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 148
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 148 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Civil service quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Civil service card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ of civil servants of a state as part of the "civil service" varies from country to country.
Answer
extent. The extent of civil servants of a state as part of the "civil service" varies from country to country. From the Civil service article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Town. Town 86 · Civil service 79 · Croquette 72 · Cornmeal 69 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A civil service official, also known as a civil servant or public servant or public employee, is a person employed in the public sector by a government department or agency for public sector undertakings.
- Civil servants include workers at any level of government, and in a healthy civil service answer to that government, not a political party.
- The extent of civil servants of a state as part of the "civil service" varies from country to country.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Civil service article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Civil service
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Civil service (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Our World In Data, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
