Worlds with Liberal Use of Resurrection?

[Jürgen Hubert]

Urbis counts - it even has life insurance for those who really, really don't want to stay dead.

However, there is the caveat that resurrection doesn't revert the aging process. Thus, some people try to get around that, too...

Regarding defeating villains: That's why it is not enough to kill villains - you also need to erode their power base. All things considered, urbis is a fairly "civilized" setting with lots of large cities. Killing an enemy in that city might get you dragged in court while the villain gets raised again. However, if you expose his crimes, he won't be able to continue his schemes in that city and might be forced to flee.

 

[Bumbles]

Let's not actually describe such a world in this thread, due to the ENWorld "no politics" rule . . . just take a few moments and imagine!

H. Beam Piper sorta already did in one of his Paratime stories, Last Enemy which featured a political conflict involving reincarnation and being able to prove it with speaking to the recently dead.

 

[jelmore]

What sorts of political systems would develop when nobles/rulers/whatever don't die? What happens with an area's limited resources? When the aristocracy can fight duels to the death with no repercussions, what happens to the society's sense of honor and insults? And when those traditions filter down to the lower classes who can't afford resurrection, what then? For that matter, what happens to belief in the gods when the notion of death and an afterlife are no longer considered inevitable by the ruling class?

Someone else mentioned elven society in general, but I went one step farther and thought of the elves and deathless on the isle of Aerenal in Eberron. Not only are elves long-lived, but the Undying Court is, well, undying. They've guided Aereni society for thousands of years -- not just the Court as a whole but probably many of the individual members of the Court as well.

I'm sure the Valenar leaving for Khorvaire helped alleviate population pressures, and I presume there must be cultural mores or biological facets that encourage a lower birth rate; not everyone subscribes to the Biblical imperative to "be fruitful and multiply".