Shireroth

Well, it is now.

Erik Mortis wrote:I didn't intend for population to be give power directly in the Landsraad. I didn't say it.. cause I didn't built the system that way. I had no idea people would have a sudden turn around in one reign and want democracy. (Anyone remember me asking about expanding the Landsraad, and how everyone told me it was a terrible idea...)

Would I be right in thinking that you intended for this system to purely be about the rise and fall of houses as a whole, but you didn't intend great difference between houses except the Major/Minor status? I definitely went with a more rise and fall of people bent myself.

*shrug*.. it doesn't really matter what I intended. Everything took a life of it's own, and everyone had their own vision for what it should be. Scott has decided we should be a demockracy for example. so I'm just gonna let things ride out and not try to use my old plan/model.

We were a democracy of sorts even before this.

Closer now.. and more official like.

DEMOCRACY?! REBELLION! RETURN TO THE PAST! BACK TO THE FUTURE!

OR NOT?

Apologies for this interference, gentlemen. Proceed.

Meritocracy. It just happens that most of our citizens have merit. It doesn't stop it from being a meritocracy, it doesn't imply people have a right to vote by virtue of existing. It doesn't even mean IC we approach anything near a democracy - we're firmly oligarchic, as we always have been. It merely means a number of people OOC have earned the permission to vote if they want to.

Yes, that's all very fine within the system, but we are still a democracy outside of it. The Kaiser rules with the implicit consent of a majority of the people.

And the basis for actual authority in a micronation without the implicit consent of a majority of the people is?

(Sorry, I've been doing political philosophy this semester, and as part of the exam yesterday I wrote an essay on social contract theory. Divine right of kings may work IC but it has no standing OOC, and so a Kaiser not based either on a Hobbesian or Lockeian contract [Locke being the more likely candidate] would be pretty weird. Or maybe Rousseau, we do sometimes look for the general will ...)

Yeah, blah blah blah. The issue is that there are some that seem to view us as both an IC and OOC autocracy.