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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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The categories you need to watch out for are the ones where you've implemented an open ended linear scheme but the differences between interest groups don't distribute the same way. Money is doubtless the biggest one - if a dollar buys you one vote, $1 million needs to buy you substantially fewer than a million. And you know even then you can mitigate the problem with the same systems you'd use to prevent any "tyranny of the majority" issues (where the unevenly distributed thing is "population" or "candidate popularity" considering each "minority group" or "party" as a single corporate person with equal interests)
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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In a world with the right cosmology, there might be direct theocracies: a manifest deity personally serves as legislator, magistrate, bureaucracy, etc. to the entire nation.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
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In DS9 the Prophets clearly exist. However the theocratic elements of Bajoran society are clearly under humanoid control and work no differently than the political face of religions we are familiar with on Earth.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Shoreline, WA (north of Seattle)
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
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On the coming of age a seal is presented in a rite-of-passage. It is shaped like a traditional royal seal implying that being a citizen is a kind of universal nobility. On election the voter stamps the form he turns in with a code distinct to himself to present his vote.
Note: I realize there are disadvantages to having an ID which the other team can trace if it has a spy. As well as advantages to making sure no one can cheat by importing unqualified voters. This is not about that it is about making an interesting cultural quirk.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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The person must take care of the seal and feed it lots of fishes. If the seal dies young it is considered a bad omen.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Not that kind.
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Still, it would certainly make for an interesting cultural quirk.
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