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<blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 4492965" data-attributes="member: 25619">Two good sources for fantasy government: Plato's Republic and Gary Gygax's original (&quot;1st Edition&quot;) Dungeon Masters Guide.&nbsp; The DMG just had a list of government types, but you can look them up online to learn more.Some of the more interesting ideas:-- Timocracy -- rule of the brave in Greek.&nbsp; You can see this form of government in the &quot;Starship Trooper&quot; movie: &quot;Service ensures citizenship&quot;.&nbsp; The basic idea is that only veterans can vote or serve in office.&nbsp; Plato thought this would be a good form of government, whereas Paul Verhoeven (director of &quot;Starship Troopers&quot;, &quot;RoboCop&quot; and &quot;Soldier of Orange&quot; about his native Netherlands under Nazi occupation -- all meditations on fascism) thought it would be a vicious, warlike regime that lies to its own people to justify war.-- Syndicalism -- Rule by guilds/unions.&nbsp; Anarcho-syndicalists (believing in no government other than by the workers in their own shops) actually did have a real movement and controlled some areas of Spain during the Spanish Civil War, until their best (elected) general was assassinated by their Communist allies.&nbsp; This bizarre but real(-ish) form of government has good fantasy roots.&nbsp; Remember the lines from &quot;The Holy Grail&quot;:&quot;We don't have a lord.&nbsp; I told you, we're a self-governing anarcho-syndicalist commune.&nbsp; We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer of the week, but all decisions of that officer have to ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority . . . &quot;&quot;Be quiet!&nbsp; Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!&quot;&quot;'oo does 'ee think 'ee is, giving orders?&quot;-- Divine Mandate -- enough people have claimed it, why not have it as a real form of god-appointed leadership in a fantasy game?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="haakon1, post: 4492965, member: 25619"] Two good sources for fantasy government: Plato's Republic and Gary Gygax's original ("1st Edition") Dungeon Masters Guide. The DMG just had a list of government types, but you can look them up online to learn more. Some of the more interesting ideas: -- Timocracy -- rule of the brave in Greek. You can see this form of government in the "Starship Trooper" movie: "Service ensures citizenship". The basic idea is that only veterans can vote or serve in office. Plato thought this would be a good form of government, whereas Paul Verhoeven (director of "Starship Troopers", "RoboCop" and "Soldier of Orange" about his native Netherlands under Nazi occupation -- all meditations on fascism) thought it would be a vicious, warlike regime that lies to its own people to justify war. -- Syndicalism -- Rule by guilds/unions. Anarcho-syndicalists (believing in no government other than by the workers in their own shops) actually did have a real movement and controlled some areas of Spain during the Spanish Civil War, until their best (elected) general was assassinated by their Communist allies. This bizarre but real(-ish) form of government has good fantasy roots. Remember the lines from "The Holy Grail": "We don't have a lord. I told you, we're a self-governing anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer of the week, but all decisions of that officer have to ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority . . . " "Be quiet! Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!" "'oo does 'ee think 'ee is, giving orders?" -- Divine Mandate -- enough people have claimed it, why not have it as a real form of god-appointed leadership in a fantasy game? [/QUOTE]

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