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gsf_emergency 3 days ago

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 3 days ago | parent [-]

> A link to the summary?

Sorry, it was in a museum - https://www.freulerpalast.ch/, which doesn't look like it has that much information online.

gsf_emergency 3 days ago | parent [-]

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 2 days ago | parent [-]

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:Son...

compare: 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 a day ago | parent [-]

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 18 hours ago | parent [-]

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?