The Republic of Kryta: GW2

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_M...t_of_the_World

This links tells what is going on between GW:EN and GW2


Judging by this info, I'm guessing Kryta will become a republic, since republic governments usually have senators as representatives in their congress or so. Hey, a first government in GW that is not a monarchy, nice.

The Istani government wasn't a monarchy. They just had a council of elders.

Well the Istani government would most likely be Feudalism, which is almost similar to a monarchy, but not completely exact.

Heh it sure will be interesting to see it

Kryta would be a Constitutional Monarchy, similar to Canada in a way.

If you actually read the section about Cantha, that place will end up like North Korea.

Sounds like ancient Greece to me.

Grece? This is SPARTAA!!!
Joking but damn it does sound like Sparta. Sparta with Ninjas and Wizards. Ninja-Wizards!

LOL, I know you're kidding, but Sparta was not a democracy.

That said, neither was Greece a true democracy, and the women of Sparta might have had more freedoms than the women of Greece...

For sure, no woman Queen in either society! In that way, Kryta is very different...

From what I understand, the women of Sparta had more freedoms than the men of Sparta...

Greece was democratic, but truely democratic in our standards (i.e. freedom of speech and such). And rome was a republic and has Senators. A government having senators doesn't mean a democracy.

Well there is one thing i put my hopes into: I want Kryta to have army where man from all nations wear same armors. It would be weird if warrior guards would have diffrent armors. One to wear something like Sunspear and one like Ascalon Guard and one like Lionguard. Proffesion speciffic armor but all nations in same type of armor. So they match. May be weird but i rly love it when army looks good in games.
Sure they can have some Elite units where they would have diffrent armors but not very diffrent. It still has to be recognizeable. And when they design guards i hope they will take a bit from evry culture of man a bit. Some details of Ascalon, some of Kryta, some of Cantha (if there would be any Canthans there) some of Istan, Vabbi and Koruna or if that is too much just some of Koruna.

What about ancient Rome? During the period of the Empire, Rome had an Emperor and senator. I guess it could be a system like that. A monarch at the top with senators making laws, which need to be accepted by the monarch.

Well the title of Emperor in Roman government was never truely intended. Juliuas Ceasar declared himself dictator legally according to Roman law and he did very well. The senate and the people liked him and so his lineage became something of a dynasty. I digress though. The new Krytan model does sound like a republic. As far as Istan a council of Elders sounds like a tribal government in that there are no elected representatives simply the oldest members of each tribe/clan/family/social group speaking and acting on behalf of the tribe/clan/family/social group they represent. It's sort of like a Republic but without elections. I wouldn't go so far as to call it feudalism though at least not in the traditional sense.

Cantha sounds more like isolationist China to me.

Well, at the risk of going off-topic, does anybody really know?

I found this from one page:

http://elysiumgates.com/~helena/Women.html

While this source says something completely different:

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehisto...nofsparta.html

To tie this into Guild Wars: Apparently, the Spartan King Leonidas was a Dorian. Perhaps King Doric was named after the Dorians?

Possibly not. It could even be that both accounts are true, except at different times in history, or different spins on the same truth. (The abduction mentioned in the second passage could, for instance, be the ceremony, prearranged between the involved parties. It wasn't uncommon in early cultures for marriage ceremonies to essentially be mock kidnappings, harkening back to days when the kidnapping would have been more literal.)

That said, in the case of the women, there is actually some doubt as to how much freedom they had. The men, on the other hand, we know - they all went straight into the army, and if they weren't good enough for the army, they were culled.

You can have a thousand ways in which to organize a statel, and senates and monarchs are not automatically impossible to fit into the same one. Heck, take a look at the english system...

Doric is Leonidas?

That's Blasphemy! That's Madness!

LOL, no I did not mean that.

I was just commenting the name Doric probably came from the Dorian tribe, and found it interesting that King Leonidas was from the tribe as well.

Probably just coincidence.