In the past decades we have witnessed a series of unexpected events:the fall most powerfull European Monarchy, the Republic, the Coronation of Napoleon, and an European war that last to this day (
OOC: Today is April 1st 1808). Napoleon controlls virtually all of Central and Western Europe, but Britain remains hostile towards him.
Absolutism, Feudalism and Oscurantism is receding everywhere, but liberty has come with and unexpected dosis of violence, something which would probably have shocked many of the ilustrated philosophers of the past century. In some places, new tyrans have replaced the old ones; but this new ones don't claim now
solely that they rule because God has put them in that possition.
Meanwhile, a new nation has come into existance in the New world, and one wonders if other nation's colonnies might follow that path (I've heard there's been a revolution on an island in the French West Indies a few years ago, but I'm not sure which).
Finally, the progress in science and tecniques seems to have accelerated enormously. One wonders where this will take us...
So, what do you think will happen in the near future? What roll will your city, Kindom or nation play in it?
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Ooc: Sorry for the anacronism in language, concepts and style, but I can barely speak XXIst century English; early XIX century English is way out of my leage. And, in any case, if this exchange of ideas had happened in the early XIX century, we probably would be writting in French, as this was the lingua franca in those days
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Ooc 2: Pleeeaaaase,don't come up with "But, there was no internet in the XIX century". Let's immagine we are writting letters, or that we are just talking in person. )