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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
There's no contradiction between "Only the spells in the Basic Set are common" and "The Ministry of Seredipity has access to powerful Mind-Control spells". Assuming that the Ministry only has access to commonly known magic seems baseless.
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I guess I don't believe that simply going around mind-controlling leaders would work to keep society unchanged for all these centuries. For me, plausibility requires some societal reasons that constrain the creativity, self-interest and greed of mercenaries, pirates, privateers, merchants, explorers and all the other people who have powerful reasons to adopt everything that makes their professions easier and more profitable. The mages need carrots, as well as sticks.