Questions tagged [society]
For questions dealing with how sentient beings interact with each other in a community.
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How would the governments of Earth in 1975 react in the months prior to the creation of my fictional military organisation?
So, I created a fictional military organisation called the United Nations Extraterrestrial Response Unit (UNERU) as part of a planned trilogy of novels meant to take on a realistic XCOM, and on top of ...
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Turns out spider man is real. How long until people accept it? [closed]
So Spider Man shows up a solves a petty crime. He starts doing this once a week. Although he avoids law enforcement (since he is technically a vigilante, which is illegal), he otherwise doesn't try to ...
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What calendar or time cycle would an underground civilization use? [duplicate]
The majority of the calendars on earth have used either lunar or solar cycles to keep track of time, ie days, months, years.
What would a civilization cut off from the sun or moon use to keep track ...
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In a slightly more scientifically advanced society. Would half human be discriminated [closed]
My universe has a slightly more scientifically advanced human world where human had just won a war against sentient dragons (threats of nuclear MAD) from another dimension AND aliens from another ...
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Murder against Murder [closed]
My Kepler Bb people are very anti-murder.
What I am proposing is that murderers get murdered but not with a typical murder weapon.
There are 3 types of murder that they are concerned with. Those are ...
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How would a post-human civilization integrate a modern society? [closed]
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In my scenario, humans have advanced to the point to where they are god-like machines barely recognizable to the humans of today. With the appearance of their bodies being the ...
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Would future religions include other media besides text in their sacred scripture?
Note: The word scripture itself technically means writing, and "other media besides text in scripture" is an oxymoron, but here I am using the word to mean something like "sacred media".
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What would be the most plausible way to arrive at a functional and sustainable theocracy that preserves certain democratic institutions with limits?
Let's say a setting contained a world like ours. Due to unfortunate circumstances, a large portal to hell opened up in the middle of the planet. Numerous demons spilled out into our reality, ...
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Economic and social roles of those without magic?
In a world where magic is inheritable and most people possess it, what would some of the expected economic and social roles of those without magic to be?
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How would society be different if people could see the full range of the electromagnetic spectrum? [closed]
Say that you have a species whose eyes can see anything from radio waves to gamma waves. Let's assume that it's adapted well enough that it can differentiate between these types of waves, and that ...
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Considerations for a Dwarven Volcano City
Related: Could a Dwarven Civilization Exist?
Background: A Dungeons and Dragons world (for all intents and purposes, Tolkein lore is close enough) in which a group of colonists far from home are ...
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Feasible Reason for a Naked World [closed]
It is widely accepted that nudity is not functional at all. Clothes not only protect us from inclement weather and prevent us from getting hurt, but it also provides a status.
So, I've been thinking, ...
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The sexy zombie outbreak [closed]
Tomorrow hordes of zombies will invade the streets around the world caused by an airborne fungus. The disease is incurable and the symptoms are similar to rabies.
These zombies try to infect and ...
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What is a good title (name prefix) for a class of society that serves as both a civil servant and clergy all in one?
I have a class of people in my world known as "Guardians." They are extremely powerful in this world and have special abilities that are unrivaled by almost every other class of people. They use their ...
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What would be a realistic militarization level for forsaken space colony?
I've got a setting where a small group (10 million) of survivors rebuilt semi viable civilization on a distant, hospitable planet. They used superscience teleportation, actually their technology is ...
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What would some of the societal impacts of the advent of optical instruments be in a concave hollow earth? [closed]
I'm working on building a world in a fantasy setting that exists basically as a 'hollow earth'. This world is earth sized and earthlike, just hollow with a mini-sun in the center, and humans live on ...
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Technologically advanced humanity without internet
How possible is it for humanity to achieve a similar technological level, basically everything we have today including high-end computers, without internet ever introduced or even considered, except ...
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How to allow to imprison enemies of state, while still have opposition at large?
RL problem: Guantanamo. And that later Americans learnt that trying to imprison such people is so complicated from legal perspective that it is much less fuzz to just use drone. Later, the procedure ...
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How fast can a society be 'upgraded'?
In any society, improved knowledge and understanding of the world around us, can help 'improve' our way of life. It can also lead to chaos and conflict if not implemented properly/fairly etc.
If we ...
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Professions For A Society
I've been working on building a society for my story, but I've run into what I consider to be a significant problem. What are the different professions required to maintain a society of a ...
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Militant society without an enemy [duplicate]
Would it make sense for a society to maintain a strong military in the absence of a major adversary, given certain aspects of its history? I am writing about a future in which humanity has a very ...
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What kind of culture and society could humanity develop with one sapient gender? [closed]
Let's say we launch the first colony ship to a far system. The colony ship engines fail halfway and the ship drifts for a year across the space. The ship was recovered by drones of an automated ...
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How many generations does it take to fall back to the dark ages? [duplicate]
There are many stories out there, that have a plot device, like a swarm of nanites that drain all energy (Revolution), radiation that tamper with your cognitive abilities (maddrax) or a big reset ...
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What are the situations where chaos and randomness is necessary evil in the society? [closed]
Often chaos and randomness are seen as the harbinger of life and contribute towards the development of wide varieties of life forms. My question is what are the different situations where chaos and ...
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Adaptive Civilizations Die Hard
Note- This question was partially inspired by the civilization in Star Trek: Voyager Season 6: Episode 12 "Blink of an Eye", plot here.
You are an ordinary person, with an ordinary life, and an ...
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What ecosystems and possible sentient creatures would form in subterranean pockets?
I am building a science fiction universe, and I am currently thinking of many different unique sentient alien species that would populate the galaxy.
I have thought of a rocky planet with Earth level ...
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Super-generic Fantasy World: The problem with Murder Hobos [closed]
Murder Hobo is a pejorative and very descriptive term. It refers to the player types or a band of those player types, who are basically homeless serial killers, responsible for ruining the currency of ...
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Criminal justice if people could live arbitrarily long lives
In modern society the main punishment for a crime is either imprisonment or financial penalty. Even if you're a billionaire, a 20 year prison sentence isn't something to brush off, and a large fine ...
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Has the government done enough to re-integrate formerly demonically possessed people back into society? [closed]
This setting takes place in a world similar to our own technologically. The country operates as a theocratic democracy, where priests run the government from behind the scenes. They elect leaders from ...
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A "Rational" explanation for psychic/psionic abilities
For what I'm working on, humans (some humans, anyway) develop the abilities to communicate telepathically, move things with thought, possible premonitions, maybe psychic projection (but that might be ...
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Is it possible to develop early society without developing religion as a side effect?
When intelligent beings are first evolving and starting to explore the world there are a lot of unexplained things. Scary things, strange things, wondrous things. In trying to explain those things a ...
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Racism in a world with customizable body appearance [closed]
Imagine Earth in the future. Technology is super advanced and people can change their genetics [and in particular their outward physical appearance] on demand, easily, for free, as many times as they ...
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Can a culture/society develop without religion? [duplicate]
I'm creating an alternative earth and wondering if it's possible that a culture could not develop a religion? It seems most cultures I know all stem off some religious belief but what if the culture ...
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How would human societies change after being confined on large interstellar transport ships for several generations?
I want to build a world populated by humans descended from colonists from Earth who have traveled a long distance and time to arrive (say, 80 years.) They come to this new Earth-like planet in dozens ...
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aftermaths of a huge simultaneous and global powercut [closed]
We the scientists have discovered a space anomaly and we believe that this is the reason for our most disturbing problems.
Every time the angle between earth moon and sun in $(1)^{radian}$ we are ...
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How would language evolve in a world of primarily digital communication instead of speech? [closed]
If our society continues on its current trajectory and we arrive in a reality that involves very little face-to-face communication and increasingly stream-lined digital communication, what is your ...
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No work and all play makes Jack... no boy? [closed]
Since as far as we can think back, society has worked on these principles. We have become spacefarers and colonized many a new world. Every member of society is a productive member of society...
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How would family relationships change if legal system uses collective punishment? [closed]
I have a legal system that uses blood relatives as legal unit.
For example Joe owes 120K in unpaid parking fees.
The court auctions his property but that only fetches 20K. Under the same jurisdiction ...
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Air robots for law enforcement trial period
In a very near future scenario, a society developed high flying drones equipped with cameras. Together with satellite surveillance, law enforcement can check whether citizens behave in accordance with ...
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How to govern marriage and family law for system recognizng polyamory or short term relationships?
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Partially rebuilt post apo world, normal sex ratio
Technology: comparable to early XXIst century
Affluence: first world equivalent
Mixed economy, semi-authoritarian system, low level of ...
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Society where sexual feelings are synched up
I am thinking about sci-fi/fantasy society in which sexual feelings between the individuals have a natural way of getting synced up. It can be achieved through pheromones, or magical link (it does not ...
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What good are followers for a god? [closed]
Imagine a world when some men have risen to the title of gods. By buying power from others, people can become more powerful. Everyone is born with 1 "point" of power and the more you collect, the ...
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What would happen if every country forgot about the existence of other countries? [closed]
Like in the title said: What would happen if every country forgot about the existence of other countries and there is a huge force field of every border of country till space.
The force field is 92....
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This could be the nickname for a nuclear family of females? [closed]
In omegaverse we can have a nuclear family formed by an Alfa Female and a Beta or Omega Female whose kids will be all females.
I get the inspiration to call this kind of family "Doll house", but ...
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What type of world would encourage competing ideologies?
This question is about creating a world or society where people can try to advance their own idealogy. In the real world, people can become trapped in a society or country with cultural or political ...
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What would be the implications of proving Jesus Christ was an alien? [closed]
Let's say that thanks to modern technology it could be proven that Jesus Christ was, in fact, an alien who came from another planet.
I won't go into the details of how it is done, but let's accept ...
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How to defeat the two-party system?
This would happen post-WW2 (probably late 50's-early 60's).
An activist thinks things in the USA have to change but knows (or is firmly convinced) that as long as only the Republican or Democratic ...
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Could a viable interstellar civilization form with this technology?
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Imagine a setting in which the only major fictional technology is human teleportation at the speed of light (for this question please ignore the question about how the teleportation ...
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How would a world with different timescales behave [closed]
Let's immagine time is like water or wind, it is uniform as of now, but it can also move and be uneven. So where there is more time, you'd complete a one-hour task earlier than if you'd have done it ...
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Projecting the Evolution of Media into the Future
I'm trying to map out the evolution of the media. I started with its history, as seen in the picture below:
From here I'm trying to think of a few logical projections for hundreds or even thousands ...
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