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.