[Dragaera] Houses of Beaureaucrats

[Steve Rapaport]

Sure, that's the important officials.  Well spotted.

But what about the other 80% who report to them?

Steve

On 30/09/2007, Jon Lincicum <jlinc at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Steve the Younger wrote:
>
> > What houses tend to become bureaucrats, I wonder?
> > Lyorn for the good ones,
> > Chreotha for the mediocre majority, and a few Orca
> > for the corruption and
> > self-interest to keep the place humming along?
> >
>
> My guess is that most important bureaucratic officials
> in almost any Emperor's reign will likely be of the
> same House as the Emperor.
>
> This seems to be a signature quality of just about
> every government in the history of civilization--the
> friends and families of those in power get the cushy
> government jobs. This is just as true in so-called
> "democratic" and "egalitarian" societies as it is in
> monarchies and despotisms of the past.
>
> Now, given that the emperors we're most familiar with
> are the Phoenix, and especially in Zerika's case
> (being the only one left, and all) we're obviously
> looking at a unique situation.
>
> I would tend to expect her to select her advisers and
> department heads based on their capabilities, rather
> than their Houses. But it's difficult to make too
> broad a generalization from this one example, since
> presumably the circumstance of any ruling House having
> a single extant member (even the Phoenix) is entirely
> unprecedented.
>
> Majikjon
>
>
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\Steve