[Dragaera] Gambling/Drug Use in a Jhereg Reign

[Jon Lincicum]

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From: "Scott Schultz" <scott at cjhunter.com>
> >Which would involve concealing [the leftover entrenched Jhereg corruption]
> from the Orb...
> 
> >-- Mark A. Mandel
> 
> I'm not convinced that the Orb would be much use in this regard. Submitting
> the entire Court to lie detector tests wouldn't be in the best political
> interests of an incoming Emperor.

Wouldn't need to be the entire court--just one stool pigeon (stool jhereg? stool teckla?) to turn Imperial Evidence against the rest. 
 
> Besides, the most effective corruption would likely be in the beauracracy
> rather than in the Court. They'd have to investigate every petty paper
> shuffler in the palace. 

The smart Jhereg never write anything down, anyway. Except Kragar, apparently, who is always very careful. 

> It makes more sense from the Jhereg point of view to offer up a couple of
> high-profile patsy's to make the Iorich feel like they've acomplished
> something while the real corruption goes on much as it always has.

Would an Iorich Emperor be likely to be satisfied (or fooled) by just a couple of patsys?

This is not to say the other Houses political influence might not keep his investigation in check, to some degree.
 
After all, in a Jhereg reign, the corruption is likely to spill over into just about all of the Great Houses--it would have to, otherwise those Houses wouldn't have any power or influence with the Jhereg Emperor. The Houses that flat out refused to "play ball" (The Lyorn and Iorich, say) would likely be frozen out of the political process during the reign of the Jhereg.

> I'd think that the Orb would be most helpful as a research tool for the new
> Emperor to review what previous Iorich Emperors did and how effective they
> actually were.

True. But, unlike the Lyorn, the Iorich are more interested in Justice than Tradition.  

Majikjn