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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7705865" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>No, as far as we can tell Alderan has a more traditional monarchy. She inherited it by being - as was widely supposed - a daughter of the Royal House of Organa, though it was later discovered she actually had been adopted (the planet having been blown up, rendering her title somewhat superfluous anyway). Her adoptive father Bail was Prince of Alderan by way of marriage to the Queen Breha Oragana, and was the principle emissary and representative of the planet on the galatic stage.</p><p></p><p>But an elected child monarchy where the child is replace regularly is suggestive of a stranger, sinister origin, to a planetary government. And frankly, it's such a cool idea, and I pride myself so much on have weird alternative systems of government that make perfect sense in the historical concept, that as soon as I saw it I wish I'd thought of it. </p><p></p><p>Having a child queen who is elected to serve for a particular period of time has precedent in human history. The best match I now of is the Incan government, which had as its spiritual figurehead a girl chosen as the best, brightest, and most beautiful in the whole kingdom. She was chosen and treated as royalty, and preceded over all official ceremony for one year. </p><p></p><p>Then they drugged her and ritually killed her, and appointed her replacement. It was considered a great honor to be chosen. </p><p></p><p>It's not hard to imagine a society where this ritual of renewal was the heart of the culture, and where people truly felt that they weren't lead rightly unless they had a ceremonial Queen. It's not hard to imagine a society where they would feel uncomfortable and that things would not work out right unless they had these special sacred virgin leading them. There are even parallels with for example Joan of Arc. </p><p></p><p>At some point apparently in the Naboo culture, they decided that they were civilized enough to forgo the human sacrifice, but too traditional to forgo the sacred Queen. So they kept the office, but did away with actual murder and replaced it with a more ritual death. </p><p></p><p>That is awesome. It's weird and alien but not so alien and weird that we can't relate to it. </p><p></p><p>Beyond that, while ritually elected royalty rarely is an ongoing thing, actually elected royalty isn't unusual at all. The English have a long tradition of doing away with their monarchs and electing a new one. The first royal line of France - the Merovingians - began when a tribal king got himself elected King of All The Franks. There was even a ceremony for it. After the Dukes agreed to which one of them was to be the new king, they would place the new king on his shield and then lift him up over their heads to symbolize his elevation above them. And as someone else mentioned, for about 200 years in Poland, they did actually elect their Kings individually, rather than establishing dynasties. </p><p></p><p>So yeah. Elected monarchs are a real thing, and not at all stupid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7705865, member: 4937"] No, as far as we can tell Alderan has a more traditional monarchy. She inherited it by being - as was widely supposed - a daughter of the Royal House of Organa, though it was later discovered she actually had been adopted (the planet having been blown up, rendering her title somewhat superfluous anyway). Her adoptive father Bail was Prince of Alderan by way of marriage to the Queen Breha Oragana, and was the principle emissary and representative of the planet on the galatic stage. But an elected child monarchy where the child is replace regularly is suggestive of a stranger, sinister origin, to a planetary government. And frankly, it's such a cool idea, and I pride myself so much on have weird alternative systems of government that make perfect sense in the historical concept, that as soon as I saw it I wish I'd thought of it. Having a child queen who is elected to serve for a particular period of time has precedent in human history. The best match I now of is the Incan government, which had as its spiritual figurehead a girl chosen as the best, brightest, and most beautiful in the whole kingdom. She was chosen and treated as royalty, and preceded over all official ceremony for one year. Then they drugged her and ritually killed her, and appointed her replacement. It was considered a great honor to be chosen. It's not hard to imagine a society where this ritual of renewal was the heart of the culture, and where people truly felt that they weren't lead rightly unless they had a ceremonial Queen. It's not hard to imagine a society where they would feel uncomfortable and that things would not work out right unless they had these special sacred virgin leading them. There are even parallels with for example Joan of Arc. At some point apparently in the Naboo culture, they decided that they were civilized enough to forgo the human sacrifice, but too traditional to forgo the sacred Queen. So they kept the office, but did away with actual murder and replaced it with a more ritual death. That is awesome. It's weird and alien but not so alien and weird that we can't relate to it. Beyond that, while ritually elected royalty rarely is an ongoing thing, actually elected royalty isn't unusual at all. The English have a long tradition of doing away with their monarchs and electing a new one. The first royal line of France - the Merovingians - began when a tribal king got himself elected King of All The Franks. There was even a ceremony for it. After the Dukes agreed to which one of them was to be the new king, they would place the new king on his shield and then lift him up over their heads to symbolize his elevation above them. And as someone else mentioned, for about 200 years in Poland, they did actually elect their Kings individually, rather than establishing dynasties. So yeah. Elected monarchs are a real thing, and not at all stupid. [/QUOTE]
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