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What if the monarch is not inherited, but voted from a selection of nibbles or other candidates? An elected monarchy?

Surprise surprise 😂 I have heard of a kakistocracy before. I saw it in an Oxford Student's Companion from the 1930s

Unrelated to the topic but, taking a moment to say… I listen to your videos while I work, and I just wanted to say thank you for these videos and providing so much deep insight into world building. I very much appreciate the long form videos as well, your channel is a gem!

I enjoy playing around with necocracy, where a council of the spirits of ancestors or honored dead rules.

I think a geocratic republic would be interesting. The land xhooses emissaries who deliberate with their constituents snd arrange a system. A good example of a geocracy is the Avatar in the Last Airbender

You forgot the Hive-mind, such as the Borg in Star Trek.

I find your joke about the US senate being a Gerontocracy to be misplaced... if anything we have a Plutocracy with extra steps. On a more serous note, you left out non democratic republics, also I feel like both mageocracy's and Sythocrocise are forms of technocracy which is it's self a form of meritocracy. The thing I think you left out is Diocracise which would be direct rule by deities rather than by religious figures as in a theocracy.

I almost spit out my water when you made that joke about the US senate 😂😂 we don't like it either trust me

A lo mejor debería hacerte caso y solo crear lo que necesito cuando lo necesite.

You should pronounce Aristocracy like you pronounce the other 'ocracy's Aris(stock)racy

Would kakistocracy technically be what Zaphod Beeblebrox is? Or no, that's just figurehead isn't it (in the books anyway). Back to jokes about the US senate I guess 😅

In a world I'm working on status is determined by service to the empire conferred by those of higher status. People have long chains of titles and honorifics on their names usually denoted by the greatest single status in casual encounters. They can be for various types of service, one character joined the army to gain citizenship, another is a priest knight who has authority over him, and another inherited it from his ancestors

you may have convinced me to make my world have two suns

Hi, is there a video where you talk about how you did end up living in Finland? :)

I tried to incorporate some form of Kritocracy in one of my regions during worldbuilding. Loved the aspect of roaming judges that could judge cases as they travel around and instantaneously rule on cases that were brought to them. Examples that I probably took inspiration from would be judge dredd, Tyranny (video game), and judges during biblical times in israel. Though working on the government operations and higher echelons of government might turn it into a different form of government. So, working on making it stick to Kritocracy.

I think a Demarcus Madea perfect setting for a rogue administrative state

Aristocracies can be Tricky, Depending on the Worldbuilding of the Aristocratic Houses or Dynasties in Question in a Given Fantasy or Sci Fi Setting. Problems Aside, it is a Good Hereditary Rule Based Version of Oligarchy, where the Politics can Affect many people that call the Same Lands as their Aristocratic Dynasties call home I'm working on one Such Aristocratic System that has a Theocratic Flare to it, in a Post-Apocalyptic Future Setting that has arisen during the Reconstruction of Much of Post-WWIII Queensland in Australia, where the only Remaining Dry Land is Islands that are Few and Far Between and the Priests of the Setting's Past, and their Present Day Successors and their Families, eventually Established a Noble Class of Priests, Bishops, and if their Local Community allows it, Witches and Wizards (Though in this Setting, Magic is Minor at best and differs in Practice from Religion to Religion) any thoughts?

Good, general take aways. I can indeed come up with examples that do these "bad things" well, so while these are criticisms, I think they only really apply when you have more issues than just that one in your story, which makes readers be more critical and try to find out the thing they dislike the most (even if it's not the problem, just the result of the problem). #1 Complexity is good when it actually means something and you have context for it and you understand the complexity. #2 Filler isn't "filler" when it is interesting and fleshes the world and characters out, feeling more like "main side quests" or "essential short stories" to the world. #3 Tropes are too often mistaken with cliches due to the similarity. There is nothing wrong with tropes as they give you structure to build upon. #4 "Sensitive themes done badly" applies to any theme done badly. I think this is just a common occurrence that can be labeled as "shock value". #5 This is a problem when the writer cannot grasp genre. There are certain things (tropes perhaps hmmmmmm?!) you have to hit in certain genres, as readers expect certain things. Imagine a romance with barely any romance. And here's also something to take into an account for about asking people their opinions: As a data scientist, I don't trust surveys unless in a VERY specific context. Basically, you need to give the full context of a survey in its entire as it was conducted to avoid misleading with the answers. Meaning the time it was done, who the target audience was, and where it was done. This is because of sample bias: A specific sample will be more inclined to answer in certain ways depending on their behaviour and bias. If the sample is big enough, you cannot generalize the results. But you can generalize them to that specific sample. "Fantasy reader" can mean anything, but it doesn't mean everyone. It means "people who read fantasy and happened to find and answer this survey". This already should give you some ideas what kind of people you might be dealing with (a.k.a. people who probably have read waaayyyyyy too much fantasy already lmao), but then there's the "where and when" that impact it. The survey could just be on Twitter (nobody has good opinions on that platform so those should be disqualified) or a carefully curated and tailored communities.

Kakistocracy sounds very much like what we currently have in the West, aprticularely Brussles, Canada and USA.

I came up with a magic & social system based on your astrological sign. Magically there’s Fire, Water, Air, and Earth signs. Socially the assumptions of characteristics surrounding your sign impact you and your place in society.

Geocracy can be found in examples of the Fisher King or the story of Buddha/Siddhārtha.

Any attempt to implement a Noocracy would be an exercise in propaganda to sneak a theocracy or oligarchy into power.

Another word you can go with an AI driven Society use the Wizard of Oz Truck the computer says I'm in charge

I need the AI governance Society it's pretty interesting but what would a civil war look like in that Society

You can also have the tension of the de facto government vs the de jure government. Like a republic vs the underlying the corporate plutocracy

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I enjoy all of just In Time Worlds videos

Great video 👍

I find it fun to consider genetics as well. If there are people that have born affinities to elements then does that mean that their children would have that affinity as well? What if two people with separate elemental magic have a child, I wonder if dominant or recessive genes would take play or if it’s like my hero academia and the kid would get a mixture of the powers. Maybe like in the avatar universe, siblings can have different bending styles or affinities. Could create an interesting dynamic for internal drama and stuff like that.

i don’t think sacrifice magic necessarily has to be evil. plenty of religious groups to this day practice animal sacrifice, and honestly probably have ritual standards that make the animals deaths a lot more humane than most of the meat industry. i don’t think characters would really have much room for criticism unless the story is gonna criticize meat consumption in general (which, hey, is a direction some people might decide to take their story, not sure if i’d enjoy reading it, but i guess it is perfectly valid)

Sometimes magic is better when it’s unexplainable and mysterious. I like hard magic systems too, but don’t knock soft ones. They aren’t intrinsically worse

What is your favorite form of fantasy government?

Well then, you HAVE to write a magic system based on math. I was so disappointed Yoon Ha Lee ended up never quite using the calendrical one of the Hexarchate. There's bits and pieces throughout the series but so little that it's not satisfying. It's like they made it and then never quite knew what to do with it. Make us a big juicy magic system deconstructed into the world, oh, ArchStatistician!

Wow, a survey, that's awesome! So it's all about aspects of deconstructing the magic system into the world. If only more storytellers would do these things, we'd have so many more great fantasy novels.

I agree with you and I never ran healing as one size fits all. Always assumed there was a reason we had different levels of healing. Cure light versus cure serious versus cure critical. And I use them in that way. So a critical wound, which always has the detrimental effect that lasts, cannot be cured by a cure light. The best secure light can do is stop the bleeding take away some pain so in effect you have a few hit points. But it doesn't cure the condition. A serious wounds requires a cure serious or better and a critical wound can only be healed by the strongest magic. Cure critical wound or something as effective. That sort of grit makes the game more realistic and exciting because it puts a different level of challenge on for them to overcome.

Instant like for the Maiden hoody.

This is possibly the best video on worlbuilding cultures I have ever seen. I pride myself on beeing a pretty decent worlbuilder thanks to my degree in history and thinking consequences of magic through. But this level of systematization is something else. Awesone. I would add a category though. Something along the lines of paranormal resources. Be it magical creatures, floating materials, magical energy sources that don t requiere mages to be used... . They would impact the economy and society pretty much the same as magic or technology without exactly beeing the same as any of them. By the way I love this graphic format of the video

i honestly have no plans of writing but i love magic system ideas. Can't remember the last time I read a book

"A song of ice and fire" should be in Legend, because it doesn't abuse the use of magic

Lmao Agree only with PercyJackson being bad both film and Tv version- PJ is just average .... people need to realize this. The best to worst adaptations are LordOfTheRings ( excellent) HarryPotter ( very good ) GameofThrones ( good ) The Hunger Games ( good ) Dune reboot movies ( good ) House of the Dragon ( good ) The Hobbit ( fine & decent ) Shadow And bone ( fine & decent ) The expanse ( pretty decent ) His Dark Materials ( pretty decent ) Ms Perrigrine ( decent ) Fantastic Beasts ( decent ) Narnia ( decent ) Spiderwick movies ( nice ) Series of unfortunate events ( nice ) Wheel of time ( okay ) PercyJackson ( mediocre) Shannara ( mediocre) Witcher ( half average half bad ) Sword of truth legend of Seeker ( watchable) Eragon ( watchable) Worst : Rings of power ( DEI nonsense fanfic )

These frameworks are badass. It really blends but also distinguishes sci fi and fantasy elements

"A Day in the Life" Stories Need to be Fairly Early in a Book, Movie, or TV Series, otherwise the Reader/Viewer will get Confused about the Pacing of said Series of Stories

@JustInTimeWorld question. I plan on writing a story about a nation sending a diplomatic mission to another nation/polity that they have yet to have contact before. Can you give me some possible tips?

Enablers is a fascinating bit to look at. I've got a culture where everyone has "magic" but it's surprisingly poorly integrated into areas outside of war and religion, and the enablers finally made it click why. They have "divine blessing" as the source where almost everyone's slice of power has unique rules and capabilities and low skill / understanding. So each person figures out one to three applications they develop over a lifetime but the only well integrated powers societally are the ones with categorically similar effects. If they understood their powers better, they could do more precise things with it methinks.

I am probably in the minority and have weird taste, but I would probably put this in reverse order. The one ring just feels like a standard macguffin to me, and the unpredictability of the wardrobe feels like the writer is just breaking the established rules of magic Things like a +1 sword, however, have the ability to change the world. Being able to create blades that can more easily cut and maintain that sharpness would change entire industries, and that makes the world more interesting to me.

The trope of the hats can sort of work for places that are isolationist, especially if the writer is making fun of the trope. For example some dwarven societies are believed to have bearded women because only men are allowed to travel and outsiders are kept out. This can lead to people thinking all dwarves have beards and some of the male dwarves are actually female. The reader never has to see the complexity of dwarven society beyond the trope of hats if it is established that there is a more complex society than people see.