Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-65.29.225.205-20130427160705/@comment-7186329-20130506170834

This is getting good.

Calling the greatest being ever produced by humanity a `wastebasket` is an baseless insult. It is also not true that He had little understanding about how governments work, and how to set up a functioning society in the Warhammer universe circumstances. The Emperor had little emotional understanding of basic humans, because He is so far removed from them, not on how to rule and create an imperium that could survive and ,yes prosper, given the harsh and deadly place the Galaxy is.

Do not compare the setup of the Imperium based on todays standarts, because this world is far worse and similar to that of 40k than you realise. Criticize not by what is acceptible today, but for what is acceptible and done by 40k standarts.

The ultimate goal of The Emperor was the preservation and dominance of humanity as a species in one hell of a Galaxy. I do no think there is a need for me to state all the dangers of the 40k Milky way galaxy, or what those 4|5 `gods` are.

So, with all that in mind, lets continue.

The Imperium does not take money as a serious factor. If there was a circumstance where the Imperium said `Yeah, we cannot raise that army or save that world, because we have to watch our pockets` the species would have died already.

I already explained the meritocracy of the Imperium in another discussion, here it is. You should read Return of the Primarchs discussions, there are good ideas there.

Quting myself

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I remember a GW writer describing the Imperium as a mix between communism, fascism, dictatorship, socialism, nationalism with a pinch of Dark Ages in it.

What is the most effective way to manage a population of several to a hundred billion, and what form of goverment would be most effective. The answer is either oligarchy, several forms of monarchy or a council. The reasons being that the Imperium is simply too grand, and the planets overpopulated for an effective form of `democracy`( I personally consider it to be bull%$@t anyway) because the people could not be efficiently informed, or managed for something like that. And the majority of citizens do not have proper education or understanding of bureaucracy,managment many etc., they are simply workers. For that reason power, knowledge and education needs to be made available to a privelaged few( of noble descent, bloodlines) whose sole purpose would be to oversee and control the masses( we have that today). Each world must be given limited colonial rights to rule and sustain itself as long as tributes are given to the central goverment and is subservient to it(Lords of Terra), who will in turn provide protection and trade rights. The Individual worlds of 40k are basically vasals of Terra, who keeps them under control by means of religious propaganda and military power. The `justice` system is the same concept as `Judge Dredd`, which would actually be more effective than the modern day police force, and is needed to minimize personell usage to a minimum level so that other human resources could be directed towards manufacture. The System is basically designed to be as effective as possible, whilst minimizing bureaucracy and resource usage. And it is not exactly a `dictatorship` by definition, but something else entierly. `