Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 18: World Building Governments

Published: Feb. 9, 2009, 5:51 a.m.

Let's get back to world-building, and dig into a tough one: government. In this case we're talking about government as part of the backdrop, rather than political intrigue as part of the plot. Are you going to create a monarchy, a democracy, or perhaps some crazy, experimental sort of rigidly constitutional representative republic? City-states? Confederations? Empires? What's it going to be, and (more importantly) why?
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\nOh, and how do you do it right?
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