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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 3558943" data-attributes="member: 6562">I see a great need for...The Comprehensive Station Tax: Monthly (or annual) tax levied on each individual to certify their rights for the upcoming period. You can literally buy yourself a higher level of legal rights, or at least rent them. Records are kept; if you are found to have violated a law for which your station (at the time) did not permit you to violate, you will be fined or imprisoned.Why? Because basically, people are hypocrites. We need to "get away" with a certain amount of stuff just to get by. This is the "slack" that holds the universe together. It seems like a LN society would have very little "slack" built in, though, so the ability to buy "slack" would need to exist... and I see no more LN way to divvy up "slack" than to sell it explicitly, on a monthly basis.Other Implications of the Comprehensive Station Tax:- Healthcare. Paid your station tax? You get certain healing priority at the Temple.- Life Insurance. Your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregeld" target="_blank">weregild</a> value (or the punishment for your wrongful death) would be set by your currently registered station.- Negative Rights. Serfdom could be implemented as a payment option, allowing feudal structures to exist alongside social mobility.- Lifestyle Maintenance. From a game perspective, it could simplify resource tracking greatly, since a certain level of citizenship would exempt you from tolls, travel tariffs and the like, and possibly get you free personal sundries (i.e. hotel soap).Cheers, -- N</blockquote>

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