[FH] LLAR was Re: The United States in Full Thrust

1 posts ยท Apr 28 2001

From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 19:47:16 -0400

Subject: [FH] LLAR was Re: The United States in Full Thrust

Note the changed subject heading.

> Jon, it's your timeline **but** where did the masses of the LLAR

good question, that. My first take would be that the conquering NAC oppressors
would probably let anyone go emigrate who wanted to, as
long as they paid (or evaded) a punitive emigration tax--it's cheaper
to ship them out than to hunt down guerillas. And LLAR colonies would probably
have very open immigration
policies, at least for a while.   Some of the worlds may have a Latino
ruling class with the lower and middle classes all being Sinhalese, Angolan,
Laotian etc. And who knows, maybe polygamy is legal in LLAR space. If the
soldiers are all male (which I can see, from what I know of Latino culture),
and you have to serve a term before you marry, then there will be somewhat
fewer available males than females. Women stay and run the businesses and the
banks, men go offplanet and serve the army. Men would want more wives because
there's more wealth; women would want the prestige and political openings
available to a successful commander.
   By the way, I'm not making this up--this is the way things worked
in Europe for a while, a few hundred years ago.