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Old 04-08-2019, 11:25 AM   #536
malloyd
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Default Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems

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Originally Posted by jason taylor View Post
I came up with this thinking of exotic onasmatics (a good subject for another thread as it happens). Suppose every person's name was chosen at random out of a computer.

Then I tried to think of how it would tie to governmental systems. And it came to me. Each name has a numerological value. Suppose by a given algorithm certain names are always considered to be names for nobles or elders or whatever. Instead of a geneological aristocracy we have an onasmatic one?.
It seems to me that the most vulnerable point in this system is for someone to obtain control of whatever process assigns the names. Or records and enforces them - clearly it's not going to work if people can call themselves whatever they want, so there needs to be a Name Use Police of some sort.
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