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Impacts of matricentric reproductive laws [closed]
My world is a matricentric America that holds men legally responsible for unplanned pregnancies. Roughly, the idea is that if an unplanned pregnancy occurs and the woman does not get an abortion, the ...
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What would be the cost of living in a country where only millionaires and billionaires are allowed to live?
I am imagining a small country with a relatively small population; say around five million people, where by law everyone living there needs to be a millionaire or a multimillionaire/billionaire.
So ...
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How to keep a town in the 1960s mostly isolated?
So, the lead up to the story is that a skinwalker drags injured people into the deep forest and nails them to trees before summoning a demon into each of them, leaving them there as parasites who ...
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Could a culture have free-market capitalism without corporations? [closed]
Could a culture have free-market capitalism that never (or at least rarely ever) results in corporations, large trusts, or other such groups? This culture is made up of a single alien species that ...
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Effects of legalizing human meat and how to suppress criminal organizations selling it [closed]
Inside the citadel we see many creatures living together, they don't do so because they all love each other and the citadel has achieved not only the end to racism but also inter species peace but ...
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What "big con game" could an alternate-reality traveller play on a knowledgeable and suspicious civilization?
I have a cosmos where FTL travel is via an alternate dimension. The problem is when you return to our universe, you find yourself at the right destination, but a completely different parallel world ...
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Ways to somewhat balance a gem based magic system so as to avoid total oligarchy
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In my world, the magic system depends on access to a certain type of gem. This gem is plentiful, but only found in a single place, with 6-8 mines. My magic system is totally skewed in favor ...
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What would be the day-to-day ramifications of a post-encryption digitally-connected cyberpunk society? [closed]
If any encrypted data could be decoded within a day (or shorter, to the point of hours, given enough computing power and weak encryption), all wireless transmissions may be intercepted, and all copper/...
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Encouraging Kindness in Rich People? [closed]
As the video linked here shows, there is some evidence linking greater wealth to a greater chance of being more of a jerk. Assuming that we're talking about humans or a sapient race with more or less ...
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How would the United States of Oceania become a Superpower?
Given the current geopolitical uncertainty and chaos, caused by the leaders of some of the current powers and super powers; New Zealand, Australia, Fiji and a number of other pacific islands join ...
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Creating a world economically and socially similar to modern Earth [closed]
I want to build a fantasy world with 21st century cultural, economical and sociological levels.
Sociologically and economically speaking, what were the requirements for our world to become what it is ...
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Is there an order to jobs as the population of a village/town increases? Inspired by but not specifically medieval
I want to understand how the increase in population translates to order of the creation of different jobs. A very small village probably has a blacksmith, but probably does not have a jewel vendor.
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What would a life be like if humans had to keep moving around a constant path, at a constant rate around the planet? [duplicate]
I have an idea for my world, which involves a population of 200K to 500K people moving around the world all the time, in order to escape a climatic/geographical condition that chases them. There is a ...
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Culture of family firms economy
The situation is like this. The government owns all the big businesses (utilities, large manufacturers etc) but allows family firms in order for economy to not completely grind to halt as the last ...
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Is an Economic Based Society Realistic?
Would it be realistic for a group to be governed exclusively by economic agreements? And could a society with no real semblance of a central government self regulate on economic contracts?
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