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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 3901308" data-attributes="member: 54364">Yeah, chaotic hippy Elves! Maybe a lot like the Athenian democracy, except that I'm sure Elves would give women the vote too. Although how a whole kingdom could do this I don't know.Or maybe a representational democracy.Or, just to emphasise the chaotic (read independent) nature of Elves they have local participatory democracies that deal with local issues and also elect representatives that go to the national assembly that deals with national issues. The interaction between these bodies doesn't work on a strict linear chain of command, as the Dwarves would. Rather each has a variety of rights and perogatives and spheres of control. They interact in a manner that, to an outsider, is impenetrable for all its byzantine complexity. Add the Royal Household with it's own powers and interests. Then throw in parties and lobby groups. Some are expansionist, wanting to increase their colonies. Others are anti-royalist, seeing them as anachronistic. There's a hawkish party. A closer ties with the fey party. The Treants rights party.Now any political system can have all this. But the Elves, with their particular emphasis on individualism give each of these parties official sanction within the system, special rights and perogatives included. Outsiders think that the system is crippled and incapable of making decisions. Elves on other hand feel that any important decision is worth taking  time over. And of course to someone who'll live a thousand years these things are relative. And this is all fine when the kingdom is fairly small and all problems are local ones. But these overseas colonies are in for trouble when the much more decisive Dwarves decide they want to muscle in on their territory.</blockquote>

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