Questions tagged [government]
For questions dealing with the political body with authority over a nation or world and its people.
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Could Fascist ideals survive in a Democratic Society?
I am making a dystopian society, where the government is elected democratically, more specifically using the Westminster system. However, the society was previously a fascist regime for the period of ...
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The odd one out. Choosing the ideology of a third galactic superpower
The setting I'm working has a period where three spacefaring superpowers are engaged in a cold war with one another. They each have their own competing interests and ideologies and each view their way ...
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How to stop the (civilian) police force from being 'sidelined and 'overawed' in a military junta?
I have a setting revolving around a 'nation' that was formed via warlord adventurism. This society is; statist, stratified, miltarist, pompous, xenophobic, isolationist, authoritarian, aristocratic, ...
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How to stop a genetically enhanced army from becoming a state within a state?
In a setting where a 'nation' was formed via warlord adventurism, and where genetic enhancements are hypercommon amongst the military (ie, improved immune systems, improved circulatory and respiratory ...
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How might humans from an alternate universe secretly take over the world? [closed]
I’m currently working on a story in which the world is secretly being taken over by humans from an alternate universe.
The idea is that in the alternate universe Earth is dying and so the humans in ...
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The junta deliberately chose a new radically ideologically different minister. Is there a precedent? [closed]
Basically, we have a burgeoning city-state that formed because some local warlord/bandit chief got their momentum going.
Technologically... lets say 'post-now'. And food is imported because they cant ...
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Advisory Council: How large should it be? [closed]
The question is about number of members in a professional advisory body for a king/president.
The king/president has all the executive power in the country. He also has all the judiciary power. He can ...
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Is it plausible to wind up with an elf on the throne of a human empire? [closed]
Consider a hypothetical nation of Great Houses lead by an Emperor. It operates under a sort of feudal tributary system, with its various lands and territories in stewardship of various Great Houses, ...
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Why would governments and scientific institutions not kidnap powerful superhumans [closed]
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In most superhero settings the government and other institutions do not kidnap super humans. This seems rather odd as if super humans existed in real life then they would probably get ...
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Successfully maintaining austerity economic policies for hundreds of years
Basic Introduction (story background for anyone interested)
I have a city-state, which was once part of a formerly large Empire. This Empire catastrophically imploded a 'long time ago', but this city-...
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Does it make sense for the governments of my world to genetically engineer soldiers?
In the world - and universe - of Pandemonium, humans have existed for thousands of years in parallel to humans on Earth, having crossed over during periodic collisions between Pandemonium's universe ...
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What are examples of multi-clan political systems being overthrown by an individual who united them? [closed]
Edit 2: I apologize for clearly not including enough information and not entirely understanding the structure of this website. Additional information: 1. Clans is used as the name for these non-state ...
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An apocalypse leads remnants of humanity to spread out. Would a "peaceful military force" be a likely force for rebuilding a nation and its economy? [closed]
So, there are plenty of questions that handle rebuilding, but I'm concerned with one possibility. As you'll probably notice, a lot of the world outside of this faction is inspired by the early wild ...
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How could I justify putting my provincial capital in a hostile climate?
The Aurean Dominate is a large, Romano-Byzantine-inspired multiplanetary empire covering the entirety of the Planet Aurea, plus some bits and pieces of the neighboring worlds Awal, Vigam, and Arturia. ...
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What would happen to 'politicians' in this world?
In the world I'm building the constitution mandates separation of powers i.e.
Legislature
Executive
Judiciary
Appointments Commission
Audit/Watchdog
Civil Service
Law Enforcement
All positions, are ...
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