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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CCamfield" data-source="post: 1138963" data-attributes="member: 8123">A completely empty plane?  Does that mean the land is there, fertile, and unused?One would think that there'd be hordes of poor farmers and other people who would grab at the chance of migrating to a place where they could have their own however-many acres of farmland.  This was a strategy used to attract settlers to Canada in the late 19th/early 20th century.The tricky thing might be getting them to stay.  If they don't like your rule and the place really is empty, they could start running... really far.However, if the settlers can't get there without your magics, you could work out some sort of contract binding them to your service.  Also maintaining a monopoly on something important would be helpful - like metalworking (controlling the smiths) or something of that sort.  Or if the contract was magical... with some sort of penalty for defaulting on it... hehehehehe <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  And maybe a gloves-off approach would be handy too, like don't overtax them.  Be "nice" and they may tolerate the fact that executed criminals get turned into zombies. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If you want to maintain control, well, you need to maintain control.  Even feudalism has an inherent problem from your point of view - a feudal king appoints lords to govern over his lands, but a lord could use his power over his lands to rebel against the king.  With that in mind, you would be better off keeping all the income to yourself, and have salaried government ministers and soldiers to keep the peace.</blockquote>

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