Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130318203252/@comment-7186329-20130404163201

`innocent Empy` LOL, haven`t heard that one before

Okay, I am intentionally going to deviate from the discussions topic and briefly explain a thing or two about real life philosophy, economy, and how to manage a planet. Anyone who is not interested does not have to read this.

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.