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Tagged with culture internal-consistency
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War and Conflict within a O'Neil Cylinder
I have an idea for a story I'm brewing but I want to know if such things are possible or even plausible.
The basic idea is that the O'neil cylinder was created after a failed attempt of colonizing a ...
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Would it be plausible for a group of pseudo-spiders to form a colony?
So, ants and bees form colonies, could my spider analogs from colonies? They’re the dominant species on the planet they live in, like humans are. The pseudo-spiders are about 2-3m long, about 1m tall ...
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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.
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How realistic would for Canada to become richer and wealthier than the United States because of climate change and global warming?
I believe that global warming could make Canada one of the most fertile land areas for agriculture and one of the countries with the most stable climates. So would be realistic that climate change ...
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Would android women be a better companionship and better sex partners for men than "real" women? [closed]
If robotics become advanced enough for the creation of humanlike androids( mentally and physically indistinguishable from flesh and blood humans) become possible in an affordable way for the average ...
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Feasibility of a Cannibalistic Army? [closed]
Among humans cannibalism has been practiced as a funerary ritual within numerous cultures across the world, and also as a way of ritualistically degrading defeated enemies, as was done most notably ...
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Minimum staff size for a modern day small town school
The world for my current work in progress is a fiction American small town with about 500 residents and 100 kids, located in geographically isolated location which makes busing to larger nearby towns ...
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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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Can two empires jointly administer a region?
In my book series, there is a group of people on the Planet Awal called the Tifinagh that are the source of quite a bit of tension between the Haxamanians (the dominant empire on Awal) and the Aureans ...
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What would cause a culture to keep a distinct weapon for centuries?
Imagine you have the stereotypical mysterious nation across the ocean. Their mercenaries are sometimes contracted into your army. They dress weird, talk with an accent, and have really odd weapons. ...
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An alphabet with alternating reading order
I am in the middle of designing a con-lang that features, among other things a letter reading order that alternates by line from left-to-right to right-to-left and back again. My justification for ...
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How to find out if someone is guilty of adultery?
Cheaters are considered to be inferior humans with defective genes and just like mentally ill people and individuals born with various handicaps are eliminated from the gene pool.
Capital punishment ...
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Erasing love from the world
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love sucks and causes humans to blindly look for a perfect match which eventually fails because no one is perfect for one another, relationship are built not gifted from God
Evolutionary ...
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In the city of Altheia everyone dresses in copper: is this possible?
Altheia is the City of the Copper Folk. Its bishops and wise dictators believe that copper is the metal of gods, a holy item given to Altheians as a gift for their religious behavior.
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(GRUESOME CONTENT) skinning people and actually keeping them alive [closed]
In my story queen Caitlin is inspired by many "cruel" real queens of Chinese, African and European history. She has a strong sadistic pleasure in seeing other humans suffer.
But most importantly a ...
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