Timeline for A government that expects assassinations
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| Jun 23, 2017 at 21:43 | comment | added | Random | Chloe already posted a Wikipedia link to assassination markets. I read a good article on the idea years ago titled ... "assassination politics", I think, consider giving it a google. | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 16:20 | answer | added | minidave2014 | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 12, 2017 at 18:04 | vote | accept | Sirama | ||
| May 10, 2017 at 8:52 | comment | added | user28434 | Relevan Phillip K. Dick book: Solar Lottery. | |
| May 9, 2017 at 21:51 | answer | added | JessieArr | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 9, 2017 at 21:04 | comment | added | Mark Rogers | This reminds me of Drow society in The Dark Elf Trilogy. Basically their ruler goddess, Lloth, made sure there was always intrigue and assassination by ensuring there was a base level of chaos by preferring one family over another on a whim whenever things got too quite. | |
| May 9, 2017 at 19:12 | answer | added | Thriggle | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 9, 2017 at 15:26 | history | edited | Sirama | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 9, 2017 at 14:12 | comment | added | Mad Physicist | @Brythan. Kinda reminds me of A Ticket to Tranai by Robery Sheckley. Except everyone was up for assasination. | |
| May 9, 2017 at 13:53 | answer | added | Werrf | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 9, 2017 at 13:48 | comment | added | xDaizu | @Nij I was gonna mention the "Unseen University" -> "(...) It is common to ascend through the ranks by assassinating superiors. This has been known as the tradition of Dead men's pointy shoes." | |
| May 9, 2017 at 12:44 | answer | added | Deacon | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 9, 2017 at 12:16 | answer | added | Walter Mitty | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 9, 2017 at 11:06 | answer | added | Michal Gacka | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 9, 2017 at 10:47 | answer | added | Royal Canadian Bandit | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 9, 2017 at 10:20 | comment | added | Nij | I'm disappointed that the Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild still hasn't been mentioned. | |
| May 9, 2017 at 8:21 | comment | added | OmamArmy | They also did that in the Wheel of time series. The Seanchen queen is always expecting an assassin from her brother or family since it is normal. | |
| May 9, 2017 at 3:59 | comment | added | Chloe | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market | |
| May 9, 2017 at 3:20 | comment | added | Bobson | @Mark - I knew there had to be a TVTrope page for it, but I had no idea what it would be. | |
| May 9, 2017 at 2:41 | answer | added | Palarran | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 9, 2017 at 2:05 | comment | added | a4android | Look into Russian history and the Romanoff dynasty. Their successions were effectively mediated by murder and assassination. The majority of Romanoff rulers were murdered. The Caesars in the Roman Empire often succeeded by lethal means. Many of the regimes in Traditional societies were into blood sports regime change. Just put it on steroids. | |
| May 9, 2017 at 2:02 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 9, 2017 at 1:41 | comment | added | Brythan | In H. Beam Piper's Lone Star Planet, they made a rule that said that it wasn't illegal to shoot politicians. It was a populist rule to give everyday people influence over politicians on an individual basis. The result should be unsurprising. Politicians tended to be bland, unoffensive entities. And there were still relatively regular assassinations. | |
| May 9, 2017 at 0:58 | comment | added | Mark | Relevant TVTropes link: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KlingonPromotion | |
| May 9, 2017 at 0:40 | answer | added | Bindelstif | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 9, 2017 at 0:11 | comment | added | RonJohn | This reminds me of "My Three Suns". futurama.wikia.com/wiki/My_Three_Suns | |
| May 9, 2017 at 0:03 | answer | added | KareemElashmawy | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 8, 2017 at 23:32 | comment | added | Spencer | Have you read Iain M. Banks' Against a Dark Background? | |
| May 8, 2017 at 23:25 | answer | added | highpriestofpie | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 8, 2017 at 23:16 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 8, 2017 at 23:10 | answer | added | apaul | timeline score: 21 | |
| May 8, 2017 at 22:41 | answer | added | Kilisi | timeline score: 34 | |
| May 8, 2017 at 22:34 | comment | added | Kilisi | A lot of places expected assasination as a means of advancement. This is why people used to lock up and blind their own siblings and other relatives. Historically it was a means to advance in armies as well that were in effect rulers. Baibers for example rose to supremacy when his allied leader died in an accident, same with the Huns, Mongols and many others including Europeans. The rule passed through blood line, so everyone had bodyguards and safeguards and the survivors either hid out, were imprisoned or ruled. | |
| May 8, 2017 at 22:29 | comment | added | Bobson | Stealing an answer from fiction here, but in Chalker's Well of Souls series, there's a country that is governed by a very fluid dictatorship: Anyone who can kill a political leader of some sort gets their job. I'll see if I can find the book and a good quote from it. (It's worth noting that the country in question was filled with technologically-advanced, heavily armored T-Rex-ish creatures, but they could kill each other just as effectively as humans can) | |
| May 8, 2017 at 22:28 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 8, 2017 at 22:27 | comment | added | Mormacil | Sparta had a system of divine kings but the words of the gods was still in the hands of the priests and several kings have been deposed because of natural disasters coupled with unpopular rule. | |
| May 8, 2017 at 22:24 | comment | added | Mołot | @Mormacil but we are talking about people who would speak for gods. Why would they ever say "it's OK to kill me"? | |
| May 8, 2017 at 22:21 | comment | added | Mormacil | Religion would do it. Ritualized assassinations coupled with divine dicated leaders? If the gods truly favored them they wouldn't have died. | |
| May 8, 2017 at 22:19 | comment | added | Shalvenay | Why would you think such extreme measures are needed in order to keep a government from stagnating? Ye olde ballot-box boot generally leaves fewer hard feelings behind... | |
| May 8, 2017 at 22:11 | comment | added | Mołot | I'm afraid that short of lobotomy nothing will make people ok with the idea they may be assassinated, unless they were suicidal or mentally ill from the beginning. | |
| May 8, 2017 at 22:07 | history | asked | Sirama | CC BY-SA 3.0 |