Is eRepublik a feudal system?
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by Alphabethis
Many people regard feudalism with armoured knights, castles and tournaments with ladies waving handkerchiefs.
Well, feudalism is a form of government and production.( well economy and politics are faces of the same coin,
you can't name an Economy without implying some politics, or viceversa). How was government in Feudal regimes?
There's a King (not necessarily inheriting the Crown* ) supported by an aristocracy of noblemen. This noblemen share,
as a matter of fact, the wealth of the country.
So Feudalism implied certain degree of democracy between peers. And of course, different rights for Noblemen and the rest ( freemen and serfs).
Well, if you think it twice, this is the right way of government in eRepublik. Each "party" may be assumed
to a Feud, where a Dukes and some Counts ( some even wear the name) exploit the Rights of the Duchy, namely:
being elected as King, and be the Statemen. The rest of the party lies as serfdom to the interests of the noblemen.
Plato and admins realized that fact and very appropiatedly they provided us with the "companies" (mesnadas in Spanish,
or gens de arms in French), that is, the Duchal armies.
Well, all this is a bit of exageration, or not? As always I'm speaking half seriously half joking, but with a load
of truth. Some parties are more feudal than others, and you can even recognize the Duke, the Counts, the Barons,..., others
haven't taken the feudal path to its full length.
How can we live back at modern times? We don't have the third power:The Law. But we can have the Procedure (which could be described as Law without necessary punishment).
Yes, feudal moods work by vassail attitudes, few questions and big nods for the big Dukes and a loss of Procedures.
Procedures of what? Basically two:
** A national Budget: - National Budget in eUk forums
disregarded by a powerful Duke
** A stated and written State Politics (including Foreign Issues). We shouldn't trust in a handful of
good-willed, or in this case Keers-willed, gentlemen to state OUR National Foreign Strategy. I know
I'm little more than a vassal, a serf, yet a talking one. Now some paranoic what-if's:
*** What-if Keers is using his own personal web of contacts to weave, to design, the National Foreign
Strategy more interesting for his very own interests (for example, now he lives in Slovenia,why?).
*** What-if current design, weaved by Keers, makes us prisioner of an ever-negotiating-in-the-dark Keers,
because nobody else understand/follows/is up/has the necessary friends to the Keers-design.
As I say, very paranoic statements. But you know how medieval times are.Lots of witchery and superstition.
I was about to propose a structure for MoD, with paid civil servants,...But I realized that first we had to
jump into modern times, setting aside wizards with burning sticks and darkness and gloom in their gaze.
* in high medieval age, 800-1000 Kings were elected among the highest families of noblemen, following the tradition of germanic peoples.
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And I thought I was the only one that noticed this, well done!!!!
Looks like you have a bit of a Keers complex buddy.
The Keers Complex, it seems a good title for a bestseller to be bought at a department store.
Don't know who is Keers, but you put your finger on an essential truth I think. Good work.
The burden of power rests with whoever is willing to shoulder it. It's pointless complaining about being powerless on the one hand, then refusing to do anything to change it on the other. Making occasional mad proposals in public discussion won't win you support. Make an effort to learn the game the only way you can- the way I and every other older player did- by volunteering to help in government. A few months and you might actually learn something about how the game works.
Ps I'm flattered.
I've applied for one job in the forums, and I'll apply for more. But you haven't rebated any of my points (as usual)
I'm not complaining about being powerless, but about people of eUK being powerless, quite a difference.
Nice article,voted and subscribed
Fight the power! Whooooo
If your worried about feudalism come join the PCP, we definitely don't have any Dukes or Barons : D
One of our fundamental premises is giving an equal voice and vote to every member. That's why our PP's effective role is as a spokesperson who enacts the decisions of the entire party rather than his own. Want to work to a more equal community? come help us build on that idea : )
true indeed
I heard Keers is Neo, and this is the matrix...
Teppishc -you may want Keers within your fold as he supports the bastardised version of May Day, known as International Workers Day [a Soviet love-in]. However, be warned he is a Blairite champagne-Socialist who will wear any political clothing if he can advance his cause.
I agree that our political structure resembles feudalism - but I don't think that it's a bad thing just because it's not modern. Unlike medieval times, our eRep lords, barons, and counts aren't just getting fat off the hard work of the serfs (two-clickers like myself) -- the active people are the ones that work the hardest in this game.
wow, this was interesting
The burden of power rests with whoever is willing to shoulder it. It's pointless complaining about being powerless on the one hand, then refusing to do anything to change it on the other. Making occasional mad proposals in public discussion won't win you support. Make an effort to learn the game the only way you can- the way I and every other older player did- by volunteering to help in government. A few months and you might actually learn something about how the game works.
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I rarely x2 posts, but when I do it means they're good : )
As Big Ant proves, be active and in 7 months, you can hold every role in the eUK including the top job...
The key to success in a feudalism system is that it depends on who your father was. There was little social mobility.
In eRepublik, it is about being friendly to and sucking up to the right people. All nobels in the eUK were serfs once,,,
Too many people want to skip the "learning" part. Some people have been here years without ever doing that part. Worst part is, they are the people whose voices are loudest when it comes to perpetuating the myth that they are left powerless by the big bad elite. If there is an elite, they are only the elite because they are willing to do the work required.
Seek power- don't do the work- you will be found out as a phoney.
Do the work- take responsibility for all the tedious tasks that come with the territory- get results- nobody can argue with results.
A system of meritocracy. All good.
The burden of power rests with whoever is willing to shoulder it. It's pointless complaining about being powerless on the one hand, then refusing to do anything to change it on the other. Making occasional mad proposals in public discussion won't win you support. Make an effort to learn the game the only way you can- the way I and every other older player did- by volunteering to help in government. A few months and you might actually learn something about how the game works.
@Mr Knee: actually, BigAnt was the obnoxious Sir Scott Williamson before he started his current account.
There's no church. The 3rd pillar of the feudal state...
@Danie Fox: I know, but that wasn't commonly known and he made it despite the general secretness of who he was.
Actually it not being known worked in his favour 😛