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Johnny1A.2 · 06-18-2019, 09:35 PM

This is a suggestion I could imagine being tried, if a group of idealists got control of the system for a while, though it's very hard for me to imagine it lasting long, since it runs directly counter to human nature. But still, it would be exotic while it lasted.

Imagine a hereditary aristocracy/monarchy, but with an iron rule that the crown or the family title cannot pass to the offspring or near kin of the noble. Instead, he or she must adopt an unrelated commoner, and that adopted offspring inherits, while the blood heirs become commoners (and first-generation blood offspring are precluded from being adopted by nobles, to block off that route around the rules).

Like I said, this goes so against the grain that I can't imagine it working for very long, but while it did the effects could be very odd.

06-18-2019, 09:35 PM	#566
Johnny1A.2 Join Date: Feb 2007	Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems This is a suggestion I could imagine being tried, if a group of idealists got control of the system for a while, though it's very hard for me to imagine it lasting long, since it runs directly counter to human nature. But still, it would be exotic while it lasted. Imagine a hereditary aristocracy/monarchy, but with an iron rule that the crown or the family title cannot pass to the offspring or near kin of the noble. Instead, he or she must adopt an unrelated commoner, and that adopted offspring inherits, while the blood heirs become commoners (and first-generation blood offspring are precluded from being adopted by nobles, to block off that route around the rules). Like I said, this goes so against the grain that I can't imagine it working for very long, but while it did the effects could be very odd. __________________ HMS Overflow-For conversations off topic here.