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Old 03-29-2018, 04:51 PM   #256
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Default Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems

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Originally Posted by Michael Cule View Post
I've seen a variant of that as a less militaristic version of the Federation Service in STARSHIP TROOPERS (the book). Voluntary service, with a chance of being offered a permanent career, for two years in return for citizenship.

Mostly people tell me this is a Bad Idea.

Monastic service?
In several southeast Asian nations, monastic training is an alternative to secondary education and compulsory service; the training regimen for youthful monastics is useful skills as well as theology and meditation... it's a long commitment to avoid service to the country by other means, but the social impact of higher moral development and the pacifist but activist bent of buddhist monastics being distributed into the general population is seen by the governments as a public good.
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