We haven't had a Kumo day for a while either. Is Archon even still alive?
Indeed he is. And Kumo day is every day. Fancy a burger? 100% fresh meat, locally sourced and free range*
*at time of capture
We haven't had a Kumo day for a while either. Is Archon even still alive?
Are any of the Powerplay leaders alive? Frontier don't seem to care about them. Even in the Galnet days, their existence often had no real repercussions to the galaxy anyway.
The narrative in the game is basically dead. And that's .
Technically, a couple of years ago when Jasmina Halsey was found/rescued, hudson ought to have stood down.
I don't understand why they keep wasting everyone's time and money with all those elections anyway. Why not simply do away with all that nonsense and get an emperor like civilised people?
What really makes me wonder is the fact they developed galne audio, then cut galnet content creation.
Most recent Emperor elected by Senate...
Technically they can't die now, just frozen in the lore section.
But they didn't waste the public's time and money by asking individual citizens to vote. And she's Emperor for life. So there's no election campaign every four years.
Basking in her glory is a lot less messy than Republic politics will ever be. You ought to try it.
She is not a true Duval so no True Emperor
well, let's hope not.In short, if that elective franchise still stands in the 3300s, the Federation is not really noticeably more democratic than the Empire.
Speaking of Federation politics:
Is there a specific name for a form of government where the electorate is only a relatively small portion of the populace?
I don't know if this is still canon in the 34th century, but back in E2F canon, the Federation had disenfranchised everyone with a sub-average income. IIRC the threshold you had to meet to be allowed to vote was actually average not median income, which - regarding the way incomes are distributed in capitalist societies - basically means that only 10% of the populace gets to participate in the political process.
In short, if that elective franchise still stands in the 3300s, the Federation is not really noticeably more democratic than the Empire.
Is there a specific name for a form of government where the electorate is only a relatively small portion of the populace?
I don't know if this is still canon in the 34th century, but back in E2F canon, the Federation had disenfranchised everyone with a sub-average income. IIRC the threshold you had to meet to be allowed to vote was actually average not median income, which - regarding the way incomes are distributed in capitalist societies - basically means that only 10% of the populace gets to participate in the political process.
Gotta ask, what's the B?#MBGA
@Sapyx
Was from a FFE Journal, though in review was the median wage, and 50% of the median wage...
Ah, 50% of Median, so I remembered that quite wrong. ^^ Still, quite a bunch of disenfranchised people.
As Capt. Leroy, loyalist Virginian Captain in Wellington's army said so aptly, "Monarchy or Democracy don't make no difference. Money talks, merit walks."
A single central representative body for an entity comprising hundreds (thousands?) of star systems and trillions of individuals is of course pure folly, as laid out by Sapyx. Then having a non-representative electoral system on top of that (like a 2-party system or FPTP) makes it even worse.
A Federation that was really worth the name would have to be subsidiary in its constitutional layout -- multiple levels of government, each with full authority over its own level of affairs - and accountable to its own electorate - interacting with the next higher level only in affairs beyond its own ability to handle, and the top level(s) not having that much to say at all.
Personally, in the game I'm more partial to both Empire and Alliance when it comes to superpowers. The Empire is at least honest about being a dictatorship and doesn't call its thinly veiled plutocracy a "Democracy".