08-02-2018, 11:42 AM | #461 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
You could set a threshold (you have to hold at least X proxies to enter the chamber). As long as you require a majority of the number of proxies that *exist* and not the number that happen to be present to pass anything, that should still more or less reflect the will of the electorate. Though the potential downside there is you need an engaged electorate - if you don't get at least 50% voter participation, your government is automatically paralyzed, and in practice you need enough more to account for the proxies assigned to people who don't reach that entry threshold.
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08-02-2018, 09:33 PM | #462 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
A democracy with such a constitutional constraint on taxation that the law enforcement system is supported only by the penalties for violating laws, fines or payment through forced labour. The result is very aggressive policing to pay the bills.
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08-03-2018, 09:27 AM | #463 | |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
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08-03-2018, 08:02 PM | #464 | |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
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(And, it's a nifty mirror of the TNG Episode Justice - low chance of being caught, exceedingly high price if you are.) It doesn't tell us at all about how the people doing those are selected, how they're funded, and if there are elected officials. |
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08-10-2018, 08:51 PM | #465 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Government is organized like a joint stock corporation with preferred shares and common. Preferred shares have supervoting rights, or have a monopoly of certain areas of government or what ever.
Common shares can be purchased by any citizen. Preferred Shares can only be purchased by a noble, or by a citizen who has had residence for minimal years, or served in the military or other emergency services or whatever. Or they are only available to nobles. Or can only be corporately held by clans or guilds or whatever and cannot be held individually. There can even be multiple levels of shares with differing powers.
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08-12-2018, 01:22 AM | #466 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
I think one of the Stellaris pre-release livestreams invented a term for that: friendigarchy. "The oligarchy are the privileged few who have four or five friends."
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08-13-2018, 08:50 AM | #467 | |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
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The idea is that while proscribed goods (illegal drugs, unregistered weapons, slaves, etc) are punished accordingly, tax dodging is simply stealing from the government and need be paid with no more then wergild to the government. Furthermore the government is actually rather ambiguous about smugglers as it keeps them in practice to be used as privateers. Giving the idea of using incompetent smugglers to pay for successful ones an added bonus.
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09-12-2018, 09:21 PM | #468 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
A "democracy", but the only polling places are inside the capital, so anyone who wants to vote has to physically travel there.
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09-13-2018, 06:33 PM | #469 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
That would mean either A) it cannot expand beyond a certain point, B)everyone in the places it expands to remains a helot or C) expansion is limited to clientage and/or influence. Or D) it evolves into an Imperium. All of these have actual historical precedent, enough to make a plausible game.
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09-15-2018, 10:41 AM | #470 | |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Not as much an exotic governmental or legal system, but this article over on the Atlantic How Will Police Solve Murders on Mars? may be worthy of consideration.
A quote that leapt out for me: Quote:
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