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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 528025" data-attributes="member: 6929">My take on politics:Factions with goals, often mutually exclusive. And factions within factions. People who are supposed to be protecting the realm will be more concerned with other people protecting the realm, often to the realm's detriment. A wise politician does his job; a foolish politician plays politics. I'd suggest a mixture of wise and foolish, and let that dictate some of your factional goals. It's really how far afield you look. The petty politicians are more concerned about the man in the office next door; the better politicians are concerned about the enormous army massing on the border.At least, that's how my observations of real-world politics go. The nasty bit is, the wise politician is too often toppled by the petty politician simply because it was such a stupid thing to do that the wise one never considered it might happen. The really wise politician becomes petty for survival's sake.A quick example would be a league of kingdoms; the kings should look out for all kingdoms, but petty kings will screw their neighbour for a quick buck. Each king has a number of dukes, councilors, courtiers etc; they all have jobs and staff of their own, which are supposed to help them run the country, but petty councilors will simply try to push other people away from the King's ear so their voice is loudest. You get the idea; it's a situation that could be a whole lot better than it is.</blockquote>

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