06-06-2018, 09:07 AM | #331 | |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
|
Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Quote:
__________________
"The navy could probably win a war without coffee but would prefer not to try"-Samuel Eliot Morrison |
|
06-08-2018, 12:20 PM | #332 | |
Join Date: Feb 2007
|
Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Quote:
That's an important distinction, because the exact same governmental/legal system will give totally different results if used by different social cultures.
__________________
HMS Overflow-For conversations off topic here. |
|
06-08-2018, 09:36 PM | #333 |
Hero of Democracy
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: far from the ocean
|
Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
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.
__________________
Be helpful, not pedantic Worlds Beyond Earth -- my blog Check out the PbP forum! If you don't see a game you'd like, ask me about making one! |
06-08-2018, 09:52 PM | #334 | |
Join Date: Nov 2004
|
Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Quote:
|
|
06-09-2018, 10:49 AM | #335 | |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
|
Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Quote:
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.
__________________
"The navy could probably win a war without coffee but would prefer not to try"-Samuel Eliot Morrison |
|
06-09-2018, 11:53 AM | #336 | |
Join Date: Jun 2006
|
Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Quote:
__________________
-- MA Lloyd |
|
06-12-2018, 10:19 AM | #337 |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
|
Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
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."
__________________
"The navy could probably win a war without coffee but would prefer not to try"-Samuel Eliot Morrison Last edited by jason taylor; 06-12-2018 at 11:05 AM. |
07-04-2018, 03:53 PM | #338 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
|
Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
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".
|
07-04-2018, 05:54 PM | #339 |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
|
Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
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.
__________________
"The navy could probably win a war without coffee but would prefer not to try"-Samuel Eliot Morrison |
07-04-2018, 11:02 PM | #340 | |
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alsea, OR
|
Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
Quote:
|
|
|
|