03-14-2018, 10:34 PM | #181 |
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I foresee...instability. Very quickly.
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03-14-2018, 11:18 PM | #182 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
I still think it's weirdness is kind of cool.
One variation that will fit a more patriarchal society is Chinese Consort Clans. In China a Surname that is descended from the closest male relation to an Imperial Concubine gets an extra panache attached to it's bragging rights. One can take this further and have a Consort Clan control each department. This brings up some interesting thoughts. Budgets and harem politics will have a weird relation to each other. If clans practice adoption they can bid for potential offers to the emperor at a beauty contest. As the concubine who wins the Emperor's favor will get the best budget(not to mention will be listened to closest in naming of the Vizier)unless the Emperor is extremely strong willed the natural tendency of the state will be to be ruled by consort clans which are the same as cabinet clans. All sorts of things can be thought of besides the rather naughty titilations. How much power is in the concubines themselves? How much in children, dowagers, male relations, eunechs, etc. How many favors have to be paid off and how far do these extend?
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03-14-2018, 11:55 PM | #183 |
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03-15-2018, 06:34 AM | #184 | |
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The resultant state is immensely proud of its can-do attitude, the fact that anyone can rise... Well, anyone who belongs to a guilded profession and can manage the politics of both their guild and the national assembly. They really don't see the people who don't count under this system and think it doesn't matter that so many don't have any way to make their voices heard.
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03-15-2018, 10:43 AM | #185 | |
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Although IIRC this was how most medieval cities functioned (at a local level anyway). |
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03-15-2018, 04:41 PM | #186 | |
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03-15-2018, 09:08 PM | #187 |
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The issue would be less the preferences of the Queen than the paternity of the heir, and the status/power that would come with it. In some ways, that system would be on a head-on collision course with reproductive biology/psychology.
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03-15-2018, 09:09 PM | #188 | |
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03-15-2018, 09:18 PM | #189 | |
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If the sovereign is female, and can only be female, then the MATernity of the eldest daughter is all that matters. Effectively a queen bee with drones, and the drones making themselves useful by helping to run the “hive”. Take it one step further and have a meritocratic bureaucracy, with the head of each ministry wedding the sovereign upon promotion to the top of the civil service... like a President or Prime Minister marrying their cabinet... but a cabinet they didn’t select. Last edited by tanksoldier; 03-15-2018 at 09:22 PM. |
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03-16-2018, 12:35 AM | #190 | |
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In a matriarchal and matrilineal society, with the relevant ancestry of a child being pretty obvious, the relationship between marriage and parenthood could wind up being be viewed entirely differently. Maury Povich wouldn't get much mileage out of "you are the mother."
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