What should the Civ VII political system be like?
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BackseatTyrant
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Even the "almost exclusively in Asia and Africa"-part ought to come with an asterisk, depending on how broadly one ought to define slavery; prison labour in the US is probably the most infamous example of this. But otherwise yes, it is indeed naïve to assume slavery is a thing of the past. Heck, it might even be unwise to assume slavery will naturally disappear as a consequence of "progress"
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Unfortunately, in my young years I thought progress was leaning towards more good and less bad. I learned the hard way that it was not the case, humankind is garbage globally, the "rapist drug" GhB has never been so popular for example... crimes become just more perverse, unseen in the shadows.
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Well, I wouldn't lean towards that narrative either. It's more that all humans are diversely complex, each filled with all different sorts of contradictions. It's just that social media algorithms have deliberately been exposing our absolute worst instincts to one another, all in the name of driving engagement, which in turn translates to driving ad revenues.
Anyway, my point was more to imply that third world countries aren't really, as that wikipedia excerpt frames the statistics as, "catching up in development" (or worse, "stuck in the middle ages"), but rather recovering from centuries of colonial exploitation.
Anyway, my point was more to imply that third world countries aren't really, as that wikipedia excerpt frames the statistics as, "catching up in development" (or worse, "stuck in the middle ages"), but rather recovering from centuries of colonial exploitation.
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Well some people made me tricks profiting of my naivety on that point. (like in year 1998/99 ? Nah...) I've seen a lot of comments ending or beginning by "in year 2024" (for example) to feed their point, and what I can say is that it's totally ridiculous. Just a warning, everything is not shiner and some things impossible just because we are "in 2024"... just sharing my experience here.
As to third world countries, alas they are wormed by first world ones, USA, Russia, China, with presumably not so good intents here or there, so I wouldn't say "they are recovering from centuries of colonial exploitation", I would rather say "they are kept down and exploited by those powers still to today".
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Order and stability are required for civilization to exist. What is now decried as colonialism certainly involved much exploitation. However, many groups of people were bootstrapped from the stone age to something resembling modernity. Rather than see this as an evil it would be better to recognize it as an unavoidable fact of technological advancement. The Brits were not evil, they were just first.
The core of gameplay in this genre must needs revolve around this competition.
Your comments about humanity being garbage resonates in the political and religious realms.
I do to some extent agree with the trend, in my own life I did feel like the US started going in a more corrupt direction sometime in the late nineties and early oughts. But remember that Civ is a game and should reflect history. We've never had a permanent hegemon much less a civilized hegemon. If you think about how an alien civilization would impact the Earth (not something I expect) in many ways the outcome we should expect would track with our history. It would be undoubtably bad for most of us initially but there would be advancements that would eventually make it a clear plus. We are in many ways just in the beginnings of the "colonial" processes in our world. It has only been a few hundred years since nations took fully to the sea.
To anyone unhappy with their lot in life one solution is plain. Get to the US, where dreams come true, and come quickly. The door will not always be open.
Moderator Action: Please discuss the topic of Political Systems in Civ7 and let us not stray into the current political situation or current events. We have Off Topic for that type of discussion.
There are hundreds of political associations, the Roman politics , the medieval one , dynastic ones are not the same as those of the company of the indies , and that of the city of the renaissance of 1400 , how should be organized the politics? The economic system? And what role does the leader play in the whole organization?
The new challenge with modern ai and create political and economic systems a real time , leaders are subordinate to this , certainly there are exceptional leaders like peter the great or frederick II of prussia who have modernized their country coln their charisma , but they are always children of history and events everything must come from the economic and political simulation, the rest revolutions , leaders , civil wars come as a result
We need realistic revolutions, not at the player's command but caused by events. We need dynamic leaders who can be changed if not eliminated. Political factions and economic theories and plans. Random events.
