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Old 06-06-2018, 09:07 AM   #331
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IIRC this was amongst the delights of feudal Europe - most places had several conflicting power centres fighting over each case (guild, crown, local lord, church etc., not to mention specialised operations like market courts). Many cases could be sandbagged indefinitely just whilst jurisdiction was established.
In Paul Johnson's History of Christianity, it tells how for a long time in the Middle Ages the Church dealt disproportionately with litigation. One example he gave was a Pope exasperated by a parish and it's bishopric spending years arguing jurisdiction.
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Old 06-08-2018, 12:20 PM   #332
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A two party democracy, but a highly puritanical one that tightly restricts publication of material deemed to be injurious to the "public mental health". This leads among other things to the suppression of pornography, reporting of details about mass and serial killings, and the restriction of any kind of fiction which is not firmly based in the real world.
That's not so much an exotic system as a particular culture using a familiar system.

That's an important distinction, because the exact same governmental/legal system will give totally different results if used by different social cultures.
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Old 06-08-2018, 09:36 PM   #333
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Rule by rotating monarch. There are a number of different bloodlines, and each reigns for a set amount of time.

This is inspired by modern Malaysia, which uses 9 bloodlines with 5 year terms. They're a constitutionally monarchy, so it doesn't matter as much as it could.
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Old 06-08-2018, 09:52 PM   #334
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That is actually not all that uncommon in a kin-group. Usually of course the deceased ancestor is symbolically ruling rather then people actually believing he speaks through the current chief. It does have it's advantages. So long as the mythology is not bothered to much by pesky historians(come to think of it, they still haven't managed to taint Arthur, probably because no one really knows much about him anyway), a dead king cannot abscond with Church funds, run off with Senator's wives, or kill a man therefore he has a lot of advantages.
Of course, in a fantasy setting, it's quite possible that the ancestor's rule is not at all symbolic.
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Old 06-09-2018, 10:49 AM   #335
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Rule by rotating monarch. There are a number of different bloodlines, and each reigns for a set amount of time.

This is inspired by modern Malaysia, which uses 9 bloodlines with 5 year terms. They're a constitutionally monarchy, so it doesn't matter as much as it could.
That's actually a pretty good idea.

Another one is that each dynasty gets only three generations. After that there is an electoral process (similar to the Venetian one where there was several Dogeal elections and lotteries before the Doge was picked) in which the successor is is chosen. His heir and his heir then reign in another cycle.

Another possibility is that a given distinguished citizen with the legislature's or electorate's consent is considered a fosterling of the monarch. They are allowed all the honors of a prince including the possibility of reigning themselves. This has some resemblance to a House of Lords.
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Old 06-09-2018, 11:53 AM   #336
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Another possibility is that a given distinguished citizen with the legislature's or electorate's consent is considered a fosterling of the monarch. They are allowed all the honors of a prince including the possibility of reigning themselves. This has some resemblance to a House of Lords.
These sorts of systems are actually quite common. Roman houses adopted heirs fairly frequently, many Scots titles could pass by tanistry and so on, though there is often a lot of overlap, given that marrying the adopted heir to a girl from the prior ruling house is a pretty common thing to do in these systems.
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Old 06-12-2018, 10:19 AM   #337
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An aristocracy based on clientage rather then descent per se. Naturally one can pick a relation as a client, and of course relations form the detritus of diletantes which are given harmless jobs. But that is not the key point. What is the key point is that if one of your clients screws up not only he but you are announced to the whole world and disgraced. And if he performs brilliantly you get part of the credit. In other words the system is based on, "you can be as big a nepotist as you like, and have the resources to manage, so long as you pick competent nephews."
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Old 07-04-2018, 03:53 PM   #338
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A bicameral legislature in which the upper house, who are appointed for life unless impeached, have no authority over law making but instead serve as the final interpreters of the law instead of a "supreme court".
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Old 07-04-2018, 05:54 PM   #339
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More cinematic then real. Every one who gains a position must pass a test. Not so much an academic test in fields that would actually be appropriate to government (that is not so much some thing you would get at the US Naval War College or the Indian Civil Service Academy). That would be boring. It would be a tortuous test of will, strength, cunning, and general badassery. It would include things like escaping from deathtraps, defeating dangerous beasts in battle, enduring torture, going on vision quests. Kind of like The Spartan Way but to insane for actual Spartans. Someone who passes this test is qualified to rule.
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More cinematic then real. Every one who gains a position must pass a test. Not so much an academic test in fields that would actually be appropriate to government (that is not so much some thing you would get at the US Naval War College or the Indian Civil Service Academy). That would be boring. It would be a tortuous test of will, strength, cunning, and general badassery. It would include things like escaping from deathtraps, defeating dangerous beasts in battle, enduring torture, going on vision quests. Kind of like The Spartan Way but to insane for actual Spartans. Someone who passes this test is qualified to rule.
So, only people who succeed on American Gladiators, and can handle their hallucinogenics?
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