Questions tagged [society]
For questions dealing with how sentient beings interact with each other in a community.
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Need help exploring dynamocs in a highly sexually liberated free love society [closed]
I'm working on a personal literary project with a society of matriarchal and polyamorous mammalian-like aliens, and I mostly need help figuring out what kinds of cultures, governing structures or sets ...
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Does it make sense to have a journalist in a dystopian militarized fascist world?
I'm creating a world where all countries' governments are turning to ultranationalist authoritarianism with their militaries being behind this push. The state (in one such country) is planning to ...
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Future city building new USA 2nd capital [closed]
My Worldbuilding is founded on Earth and one relevant tweak is a new Capital city in Kansas near or in Centropolis. The function is to house the 11000 to 15000 representatives that won't fit in the ...
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The state's miniscule security apparatus is already 'ruling' a large teeming populace, how much more barebones can we get?
As a disclaimer: I'm working on a dark political satire where the literary classic of 'Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale' is front and centre.
Setting background: Basically, it's a parody of post-...
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How would a society tht runs on a barter system interact economically with a country that runs on a monetary system?
As you can see, I have an economics-based question.
Without getting too detail-heavy, the central plot of my current WIP centers around a Princess trying to get two neighboring countries to stop ...
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The hero's party has just purchased a pricey relic from a backwater vendor, why is the regional economy not inflating?
As a disclaimer: I'm working on a dark comedy setting where it's a generic soft fantasy with the aim of parodying the likes of DnD and GoT and LOTR, so things might be a bit whack.
So our cheerful ...
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Why would an "instant-win" character not partake in fighting and this be forgiven/tolerated by others? [closed]
The setting for my story is an entirely fictional country whose situation and rough geopolitical position was inspired by the Roman Empire (minus the slaves). It started as a small city state, which ...
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Sustaining a non-agrarian sedentary population
So I have a walled settlement (hence forth dubbed, 'the Spire') smack-bang in the middle of a all-encompassing misty 'cursed' forest. The overall population is around 2000.
The Spire has ONE joint ...
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Justifying the institutional usage of 'random number generators' in a strict hierarchal society
So I'm doing a dark comedy setting where, among other things, the main faction utilizes a random number generator when it comes to its military formations.
Basically, the inspirations that I'm drawing ...
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Preventing overplanting/overharvesting of a coconut based currency
"Anything can serve as a currency and ultimately the winners will
possess the characteristics that people demand: portable, fungible,
easily divisible, and reasonably scarce" - John Matonis
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Feasibility of an industrial society where a 'modern' tax system is less regarded/effective than 'tax farming'?
In my setting there was a expansionary city-state that has industrialized and extracts wealth from its holdings by 'outsourcing' tax collection to various tax farmers. Basically, every single ...
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A replacement for alcohol in bars
We're a lot of years in the future. The exact amount doesn't matter, though in my head it between 3000 and 4000 years. All we need to know is that we're far into the future. Society has collapsed at ...
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How would humanity deal with ambitious aliens? [closed]
The human empire extends over a large portions of the galaxy. Aliens are given relative freedom, but can’t rise in authority beyond planetary governor neither can they join the priesthood. So without ...
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Can 'arithmancy' ever be adopted at a institutional and societal level in a atheistic nation? [closed]
Wider story background: Magic does not exist. Gods do not exist. Psychic powers do not exist. Superstitious behaviours (ie, totemism, animalism, various folk-myths etc) however, did exist, once upon a ...
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How can a elected govt espouse anti-militarism despite the voting public being pro-militarist [closed]
We have a 'democratic' government. The basic system is that the population is divided into wards. The permanent residents of the wards votes for a representative. That representative goes to a ...
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