Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6134883-20130512151633

To get this discussion off the Eldar/Imperium alliance topic.

Ultramar sounds less like Sparta than Ancient Rome to me; an Aristocracy but with Republican (not Democratic) forms. Birth matters; so does money. Now name me a human civilization where those have NOT mattered?

A true Democracy has never existed - most definitely including Ancient Athens where the concept originated, nor has a purely egalitarian or mericratic civlization. Some people ALWAYS have a headstart. The BEST one can hope for is a system sufficiently loose that new people can rise in it which Ultramar does seem to have. 