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On Sun, 8/17/14, Evyn MacDude <evyn.macdude@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] A Darker Imperium...
 To: tml@simplelists.com
 Date: Sunday, August 17, 2014, 10:58 PM

 On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at
 4:20 PM, Freelance Traveller
 <editor@freelancetraveller.com>
 wrote:
 > ...that doesn't hesitate to
 intervene in a world's governance where it
 > perceives a problem. Nor does it hesitate
 to intervene in non-member
 > worlds to
 achieve a local government it finds more comfortable as a
 > client state and eventual member state.
 >
 > What qualities does
 such a local government have?

 Depends who is making the decision doesn't
 it? I suspect a certain
 amount of toadying
 up to the Nob who signs the papers is in order.

 > What would its general
 > policies be? What sort of structure?

 I often look at historical
 precedent here, what did the Romans do? Or
 better yet the East Indian Company.

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The way the USSR 'managed' it's various 'clients' & potential ones could also be instructive.

Of course they generally, relatively speaking, of course & w/ some exceptions (see Afghanistan, for example) wielded a lighter 'touch' outside the Warsaw Pact, but even w/i the 'Pact there were varying degrees of heavy-handedness.

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