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A link to the summary? This sounds interesting. While it sounds anachronistically enlightened (and very close to an actual historical example of what the TFA i

A link to the summary? This sounds interesting. While it sounds anachronistically enlightened (and very close to an actual historical example of what the TFA intended-- it's not very often that we harvest anything from "truth is stranger than [especially science] fiction")-- --the death penalty was applied against witchcraft in 1782?? On the whole Switzerland is (today) sort of a Heinleinian (but regrettably (or unsurprisingly?) not Stephensonian) SF setting: peak humanity in hillbilly country

davidgay 2y ago
> A link to the summary? Sorry, it was in a museum - https://www.freulerpalast.ch/ https://www.freulerpalast.ch/, which doesn't look like it has that much information online.
- gsf_emergency 2y ago
  Gotta wait for our residential citation-fu master to dig that one out, then. A necessary but maybe not sufficient condition for the emergence of such governing structures would be that people grow up rejecting zero-sum status games (including) at the level of tribes. The stopgap solution, constitutional monarchy, fails, because,---? So, I'd say in Gladrus, you already had protestants living in close proximity to Catholics for a handful of centuries .. but the clincher v-a-v the asiatic cases eludes me. Ime the asiatic cases the "jesus nut" of the system (sovereign, policemen, yeomen, lawyers, judges, etc) are drawn from a single caste. Pace Manu. Makeup of the branches of government then becomes a emergent symptom. (Compare to western based systems of law.) Who formed the peacekeeping contingent in Gladrus?
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    Low B/W ATM, may be a while... In the meantime, note that CH had a catholic/proddy civil war mid-XIX (Glarus* on the protestant side) but as proof of that humanity it was resolved with only ~100 total deaths, both sides included. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderbund_War#/media/File:Sonderbund_War_Map_English.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderbund_War#/media/File:Son... compare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderbund_War#/media/File:Religion_map_of_Switzerland_in_1800_-_en.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderbund_War#/media/File:Rel... * for some reason, only cantons with non-human animals on their flags have visible genitalia, so the flag of Glarus is penis-free. EDIT: note also that in "modern federal" CH, almost all the tax burden is canton and commune, not confederation.
    - gsf_emergency 2y ago
      TiGR CH anachronistically (by centuries) indulging again (here, in wars of religion) Noted the blue St Gallen in a red sea :) Also that miyamifla has opposite tax policy, => Catholics the house?
      - 082349872349872 2y ago
        could easily be a remnant of roman law, but unlike Monterey, which grandfathered laws (along with existing property lines) in, Mia Mifla isn't a community property jurisdiction, so maybe it's just an incidental remnant of the property speculation boom bust cycle?

davidgay 2y ago

> A link to the summary? Sorry, it was in a museum - https://www.freulerpalast.ch/ https://www.freulerpalast.ch/, which doesn't look like it has that much information online.

gsf_emergency 2y ago
Gotta wait for our residential citation-fu master to dig that one out, then. A necessary but maybe not sufficient condition for the emergence of such governing structures would be that people grow up rejecting zero-sum status games (including) at the level of tribes. The stopgap solution, constitutional monarchy, fails, because,---? So, I'd say in Gladrus, you already had protestants living in close proximity to Catholics for a handful of centuries .. but the clincher v-a-v the asiatic cases eludes me. Ime the asiatic cases the "jesus nut" of the system (sovereign, policemen, yeomen, lawyers, judges, etc) are drawn from a single caste. Pace Manu. Makeup of the branches of government then becomes a emergent symptom. (Compare to western based systems of law.) Who formed the peacekeeping contingent in Gladrus?
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Low B/W ATM, may be a while... In the meantime, note that CH had a catholic/proddy civil war mid-XIX (Glarus* on the protestant side) but as proof of that humanity it was resolved with only ~100 total deaths, both sides included. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderbund_War#/media/File:Sonderbund_War_Map_English.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderbund_War#/media/File:Son... compare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderbund_War#/media/File:Religion_map_of_Switzerland_in_1800_-_en.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderbund_War#/media/File:Rel... * for some reason, only cantons with non-human animals on their flags have visible genitalia, so the flag of Glarus is penis-free. EDIT: note also that in "modern federal" CH, almost all the tax burden is canton and commune, not confederation.
  - gsf_emergency 2y ago
    TiGR CH anachronistically (by centuries) indulging again (here, in wars of religion) Noted the blue St Gallen in a red sea :) Also that miyamifla has opposite tax policy, => Catholics the house?
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      could easily be a remnant of roman law, but unlike Monterey, which grandfathered laws (along with existing property lines) in, Mia Mifla isn't a community property jurisdiction, so maybe it's just an incidental remnant of the property speculation boom bust cycle?