On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Kelly St. Clair <kellys@efn.org> wrote:

On 11/9/2014 6:47 PM, Richard Aiken wrote:

Some of the most fun my original Traveller group had was overthrowing a
low-tech planetary dictator and setting up a democratic government to
replace him.

Of course, Traveller being Traveller (and the Imperium the Imperium), the merc ticket is as likely as not to be the other way around. Which government is more friendly to offworld exploitation - er, trade?

I read somewhere recently that democracies tend to have higher productivity and thus greater disposable income than autocracies. At first glance, China is a contra-example. But it really isn't, since it didn't start getting relatively wealthy until the autocrats eased back on the economic controls.

So - at least IMTU - the Imperium wouldn't care, so long at the new government didn't abrogate any Imperial agreements.

Richard Aiken

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