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And importantly they insinuated themselves as nobility due to the influence of their businesses rather the other way around

Castle Bravo - A kingdom that's a metaphor for the atomic bomb and where all of the stuff is named after bomb tests or specific devices, with locations like Castle Bravo and characters like the Orange Herald, the Fat Man, and Ivy Mike. I imagine it as being a surreal dreamlike Carcosa-esque...

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Yes the British one, the one that conquered India with a bigger army than its home nation

Again though, the East India Company was around for like 300 years

Give it long enough and there isn't a difference between those two extremes. Imagine you take a bottle and fill it - in layers - with different colors of sand. The bottle now has several lines of color. Now shake it, and shake it again, keep shaking it and shaking it and shaking it. The layers...

There's this, and there's also the converse. If we go the other way and make good too idealized then it becomes unable to defend itself of accomplish anything. Tangentially, I recently remembered something like an argument for neutrality that I encountered in a scientific source. Chapters 10...

"What makes a man turn neutral. Is it lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?" -Zapp Branigan

Planar [sic] Handbook pg 142, column 1. An old 3.5e planes supplement

Has anyone posted this yet:

In some editions the Lady is lawful neutral rather than true neutral

Idea: A mashup of Master of Magic 1 and Master of Orion 2, with themes and aesthetics cribbed from Star Wars, Dune, and WH40K. You play as an evil space wizard competing with other evil space wizards for galactic domination, there's both a tech tree and a spell research tree, there's an...

Operation Clippy - Cyberpunk setting. Genocidal rogue AI superintelligences have made a bid for global domination and failed. But those very same rogue AIs are still around; snapped up or copied by the major world powers after being subdued. I came up with the title first and then the setting.

The Galaxy - It's millions of years in the future and humanity has spread across the milky way. There's no aliens as such but there's an incredible variety of planet-specific lifeforms all derived from humans or o e of a handful of domestic animals Immense Heaven - Billions of years in the...

Maybe the robot also filters the air? EDIT: Like seriously, the robot might double as a respirator under certain conditions