Erebras
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I adapted Alpha Centauri icons for this mod.
Any suggestions what resources for this mod would entail?
Erebras said:In a soft science-fiction mod, the factions are all naturally xenophobic -- a city composed of talking apes, cyborgs, mutants, and human survivalists are just not going to get along well ...
Erebras said:TOTALITARIAN STATE (planned state) = military police, communal corruption
I always thought that crime and corruption was higher in a free society than in a communist or socialist society because there is less stability and balance. And it seems like corruption within a totalitarian government would be virtually nil due to fear...
1. Vanilla-CIV Democracy with its zero corruption is pure fantasy. No such state of affairs has ever existed, or ever will.
2. Federalism -- big government -- reaches a point of diminishing returns as a country gets bigger. This is why the United States is ruled by an elite completely out of touch with its citizens, beyond its economic power base of lobbyists and campaign donors. Abraham Lincoln put the final chokehold on the 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights, but the only way to make the republic work the way it was intended to is to return power to the states instead of having a central government dictate in blind and absolute terms what everyone in the country will do until the inevitable lawsuits overturn their shortsighted attempts at legislation.
. . big government -- reaches a point of diminishing returns as a country gets bigger. The United States is ruled by an elite completely out of touch with its citizens, beyond its economic power base of lobbyists and campaign donors.
If the United States were to depend solely on the whims and judgment of its "representatives" we today would be speaking pidgin-Mandarin while sending our livelihoods overseas to our Chinese overlords. "
It is inevitable that sooner or later the United States will eventually become Los Estados Unidos
Are you accounting for birth rates, Balthasar?
I always thought that crime and corruption was higher in a free society than in a communist or socialist society ...
if it gets bad enough, troublemakers get ousted, either by being voted out of office, or forced resignations, or impeachment proceedings. A politician not taken serious by his constituency is doomed.