Ephraim Ben Raphael
Banned
An Examination of Extra-Universal Systems of Government Fourth Edition, by Aguaribay Chaná. First Printed in 1404 A.F in Cantonese, Novaya Gutenberg Printers, The Nutshell.
"Any one Earth will inevitably contain a thousand varieties of humanity, each with its own culture, traditions, and philosophical beliefs. These elements combine with other factors such as geography, climate, and pure unadulterated luck to create what man inevitably terms to be “government” in whatever language he happens to speak. It would be tempting to describe one’s own type of regime as “inevitable”, patterned on basic human nature and destined to replace all other types due to its inherent superiority. This was, after all, how my own state described itself for the first thirty years of my life.
But the Multiverse puts paid to this hubris, as it does to so many other notions held dear by the multifarious facets of humanity by proving beyond a doubt that no one system of government can claim to be consistently superior to any other- or that if one is then only the Infinity itself could discern this superiority by examining the Countless Worlds. But to the merely finite minds of our species it is clear that for every world where Direct Democracy became the dominant practice, there is one where Absolute Monarchies hold supreme. For every history that chronicled the seemingly “inevitable” rise of Demarchism there is one where Kratocracies became the only legitimate governments and for every Cold War or Great Game won by the forces of Rationality and Technocracy there is one where Faith and Theocracy triumphed (the latter being impossible as my former homeland would have me believe).
Indeed the only commonality between different forms of government that can be said to be in any way multiversal is that one form usually (but not always) tends to triumph over all others in any given history. We see this even with the Enkidus and the Mi Anaka who can honestly be expected to have different tendencies than H. Sapiens…
…This work attempts not to understand the reasons why various nations develop the governments they do, but rather merely to present various examples of governments that do exist in a tableau of human accomplishment- or for that matter failure depending on your political views. It was to this end that I have placed certain limits on the countries I surveyed in my research, to pare down the possible candidates for this book. To begin with I eliminated any government not majority Homo Sapiens (meaning no disrespect of course to my Enkidu colleagues but they’ll have to wait for their own book). In addition I refrained from describing any country on any world that I could not personally visit or at the very least (in cases when visiting wouldn’t be entirely salubrious to my person) interview citizens or former citizens of the state in question.
As a final note in this forward, I would like to remind the reader that this is but a small sampling of the many possible systems of government that exist in the Multiverse and it is always open to expansion and improvement.”
"Any one Earth will inevitably contain a thousand varieties of humanity, each with its own culture, traditions, and philosophical beliefs. These elements combine with other factors such as geography, climate, and pure unadulterated luck to create what man inevitably terms to be “government” in whatever language he happens to speak. It would be tempting to describe one’s own type of regime as “inevitable”, patterned on basic human nature and destined to replace all other types due to its inherent superiority. This was, after all, how my own state described itself for the first thirty years of my life.
But the Multiverse puts paid to this hubris, as it does to so many other notions held dear by the multifarious facets of humanity by proving beyond a doubt that no one system of government can claim to be consistently superior to any other- or that if one is then only the Infinity itself could discern this superiority by examining the Countless Worlds. But to the merely finite minds of our species it is clear that for every world where Direct Democracy became the dominant practice, there is one where Absolute Monarchies hold supreme. For every history that chronicled the seemingly “inevitable” rise of Demarchism there is one where Kratocracies became the only legitimate governments and for every Cold War or Great Game won by the forces of Rationality and Technocracy there is one where Faith and Theocracy triumphed (the latter being impossible as my former homeland would have me believe).
Indeed the only commonality between different forms of government that can be said to be in any way multiversal is that one form usually (but not always) tends to triumph over all others in any given history. We see this even with the Enkidus and the Mi Anaka who can honestly be expected to have different tendencies than H. Sapiens…
…This work attempts not to understand the reasons why various nations develop the governments they do, but rather merely to present various examples of governments that do exist in a tableau of human accomplishment- or for that matter failure depending on your political views. It was to this end that I have placed certain limits on the countries I surveyed in my research, to pare down the possible candidates for this book. To begin with I eliminated any government not majority Homo Sapiens (meaning no disrespect of course to my Enkidu colleagues but they’ll have to wait for their own book). In addition I refrained from describing any country on any world that I could not personally visit or at the very least (in cases when visiting wouldn’t be entirely salubrious to my person) interview citizens or former citizens of the state in question.
As a final note in this forward, I would like to remind the reader that this is but a small sampling of the many possible systems of government that exist in the Multiverse and it is always open to expansion and improvement.”
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