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Ashen Stars had an interesting one, although it probably couldn't be handled by a pre-internet civilization, a compromise between the wildly differing political ideas of humans and balla. A bicameral legislature in which the lower chamber is elected by popular vote and the upper, however they try to dress it up, is Reddit. It consists of the people whose published works have the most upvotes, rechecked and compiled every year or so.

The balla are projecting empaths, which makes a large group of balla degenerate into a hysterical lynch mob all too easily when one of them gets scared or angry and a cascade effect happens; controlling the madness of crowds is the primary subject of their political thought and human-style democracy horrifies them.