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<blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 3656282" data-attributes="member: 13892">Oh, I know that Calastia isn't socialist, my point was that it contains as much rigid structure as a socialist state would require, however (if not more). I was bluntly told that a socialist state would never work in the Scarred Lands because no country or culture therein could meet the rigid structural demands of such a society due to the fact that they were (paraphrased) too busy trying to survive and/or rebuild. This seemed like a very weird argument as socialism not only tends to thrive in post-war environments centered on rebuilding but, also, because Calastia (as a dictatorship) is every bit as rigid in terms of governmental structure as a socialist state would be. When posting this thread, I assumed that the reaction my plans elicited was one of canon purist though, in retrospect, it might have been a knee-jerk response to the mention of socialism. Yeah, it shouldn't be, though stuff like this can really work canon fanatics into a tizzy, IME <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdrakeh, post: 3656282, member: 13892"] Oh, I know that Calastia isn't socialist, my point was that it contains as much rigid structure as a socialist state would require, however (if not more). I was bluntly told that a socialist state would never work in the Scarred Lands because no country or culture therein could meet the rigid structural demands of such a society due to the fact that they were (paraphrased) too busy trying to survive and/or rebuild. This seemed like a very weird argument as socialism not only tends to thrive in post-war environments centered on rebuilding but, also, because Calastia (as a dictatorship) is every bit as rigid in terms of governmental structure as a socialist state would be. When posting this thread, I assumed that the reaction my plans elicited was one of canon purist though, in retrospect, it might have been a knee-jerk response to the mention of socialism. Yeah, it [i]shouldn't[/i] be, though stuff like this can really work canon fanatics into a tizzy, IME ;) [/QUOTE]

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