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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 8313176" data-attributes="member: 79428">First off, I usually prefer to think of characters exhibiting alignments to different degrees (from mildly aligned to strongly aligned), so even a Chaotic society might not be strongly Chaos-aligned. Second, I prefer to define Law as prioritizing the removal of uncertainty, while Chaos is against limitations in general and is less concerned with uncertainty.With that quick, personal definition out of the way, I'd generally say that a Chaotic society is one with little to no codified rules. In a Good or Good-leaning society, those rules that do exist are enforced by popular consensus rather than an authoritative body. In an Evil or Evil-leaning society, those rules are enforced by threat of violence from whoever has managed to intimidate others into submission.Wikipedia has a list of articles related to former and current anarchist communities that could be good for reference: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchist_communities" target="_blank">List of Anarchist Communities</a>I'll also add the caveat that I'm more selective when assigning alignments to characters, societies, or whatever. A society having plenty of laws doesn't necessarily make it a Lawful society; what matters is if the people in power and the public at large believe in and follow the laws without corruption or favoritism (basically, a Lawful society would be one in which bureaucracy actually functions the way it was intended to by no one trying to be above the law).</blockquote>

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