if the HK steal our reforms again I will be wroth
I actively pushed to help them steal the reforms. It means culture conversion if they want to USE it
It'd probably either a) Break their system into tiny little pieces with the various complexities involved or b) be utterly worthless since they do not have currency.
And a) would be because we have: A huge trading network, a proto-stockmarket, currency, and a huge population with millennia of admin advances to name a few. If they tried to implement all of that they'd probably pop due to all the progressive strain.
Yeah a couple of big differences:
-Ymaryn law assumes that once you get a piece of land, it's your country's for good. No accounting for people refusing to hand it over to a better user, or loss in war. Our economy is fully integrated with every piece.
--There is a lot of laws and subregulations about the transfer of land admin rights and management as well as regulations about protecting the land.
---Want to see what happens to a Hereditary Land culture that copies that by accident? Hint: Rebellion.
-Ymaryn law has a lot of restrictions on private ownership, hoarding and taxes.
--Most of these would be a nightmare to manage for a more capitalist society like the Highlanders. Those without the culture backing it up will be furious at the idea of repossession of property.
-Ymaryn law has a lot of regulations on how to reward land quality and improvements, and penalties on how to punish misuse of the land, but in exchange the assumption is that the government gets most of the returns and redistributes it.
--Most of these are going to be completely insane to implement if you don't have an army of clerks. And if the land doesn't pay to the government.
Yeah you wanna implement these super advanced and progressive things without the background infrastructure? Okay I'll let you try. <- Crow teaching a dumbass a lesson.
-Ymaryn law is complex as fuck because every town, down to the smallest village, has at least one literate priest in it. We got that from Sacred Warding. Additionally, due to our absurdly high Hierarchy, we have a large percentage of clerks and accountants who are also literate/semi-literate to double check the priests interpretations and avoid utter bullshit.
--It's going to be pretty funny to see people try to supply enough people who can read and understand the laws, until they realize you could just make ONLY your noble class literate.
No, we went through our Trelli hatred phase. I remember a lot of people were immediately in favour of killing them off as a knee-jerk reaction to meeting them.
That was when we found out they dominate the slave trade I think. And that they'd potentially attack trade posts near them.
Well actually there was a big funk about the Trelli when they first appeared.
Then the Khem showed up and we hated them for a second. Then we realized, "Oh wait this dude is a scrub trader who is posturing and we are seeing culture clash".
We realized it for a while, just that people don't quite realize the somewhat gangsta posturing between traders going on as subtext.
Some damn fools who deny the word of the holy sheep and have orgies with trees.
Bacchians/Dionysians? Though IIRC even the sheep were not safe from them.
And then there was Aleister Crowley...
