Bull crap, every noble is a politician except in Aurvandil as claimed by Mendicant, which I wish I could participate in for a month, or a week, but my character at the moment would not join. I nearly said never but because of the way I role play my character in a long term, seen by few, manner it could perhaps happen eventually, but no time soon. OOC, not even talking about your military or gold maneuvering, Aurvandil is amazing due to its political system, which is that it does not exist.
Everyone's got a price, eh?
When I first met BattleMaster I was tempted to enter Aurvandil, I guess like many other people that don't integrate the main player-core, because of the number of people (which almost ensures a realm is in the top of the relevance in the continent), and because their Wiki background was quite elaborated comparing other realms. As I said some time ago, for many players it seems the main thing here is knowing from the beginning they're going to join a powerful realm, rather than the idea of helping on the construction of a small realm that is in its growing-surviving phase. Once they taste that notoriety, I guess for them the possibility to access the highest positions goes in a second place, if the ruler gets to keep the illusion of a promotional system.
I'm glad to haven't chosen Aurvandil, and mostly after visiting this forum regularly. But I can understand new players find it a very tempting place to start.
erm...
Okay, yeah, I'm just gonna' drop the mic now and claim victory. You actually just claimed that dictatorship is a better safeguard of liberty than democracy, on an OOC level, not ICly at all. Methinks you need a history lesson– especially French history. You could learn the language and some historical truth all at once.
I think he wasn't saying that exactly. I agree that many times our idea of Democracy has little to do with our true capacity to practice our right to chose our representatives. Unfortunately, politic parties have uncountable ways to protect themselves against "disturbing ideas". So finally, we the citizens, only can choose what we think is the "less bad" option among the very limited options we have.
Democracy as we know it today isn't a good politic system, but indeed is the best way a modern society can chose to rule itself.