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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9601759" data-attributes="member: 4937">My homebrew world takes advantage of the fantasy setting to have all sorts of government types that never existed or couldn't exist in the real world.In terms of social development though, the majority of the world is equivalent to 17th century levels of social development where strong nation states with recognized rulers who do exercise real control over the territory they claim are the rule.  Some city states exist, but only in the sense of micro-nations that claim very small areas.  Tribal levels of development are common outside the six free peoples, such as giants.  It gets complex when talking about free peoples.  For example, a group of goblins might effectively be functioning as an independent tribe, most likely though this will be occurring because they were pushed out of a nearby goblin nation and are colonizing human controlled land as a safer (though still not very safe) thing than being an outcast tribe in goblin society.  But this won't be because the tribe doesn't understand more complex levels of social structure, just that they are trying to avoid being murdered as the losers in some feud.  They would see themselves as colonial settlers in a hostile but underpopulated area.  The reverse can also happen, and in general everyone is conquering and colonizing everyone else.  In some parts of the world there are human tribal nations, mostly in regions that are too overrun with monsters to support civilization as we'd understand the concept.  There are some remaining true feudal areas as well, where there is a theoretical sovereign but in practice actual political power is divided amongst a tapestry of city states and tribal states each often acting as its own ethnicity where the king is really a weak emperor who must appease his diverse (nominal) vassals who normally do their own thing and often make war on each other.  Fairies are weird exceptions to almost everything, as they tend to ignore the existence of human government and form a tapestry of little tribes and city states living under and often uncaring of the claims of other people groups.</blockquote>

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