Liberty Goverment?

[RParade]

Well, in a setting like Freelancer things will always work alot differently than they do in the real world.


Yes, you have a president. You probably have a Senate aswell, which consists of various representatives from each planet within Liberty space.

.. But, it's not like the real world. Even in the real world a president does not govern the 'entire' world, but instead only a chunk of it. Even then, you have various factions like the United Nations who really control things (on the whole, anyway; they've more power than any single president in many aspects). When it comes to space though, it's just too large a task for politicians, so alot of things are completely militarized. It has to be this way for many reasons, the biggest of which being that only a House Military will have the resources to patrol/control/protect any given region of space. In this setting, unless you're a particularly charismatic leader (like Rheinland's president in the singleplayer campaign), your Military is going to be your government rather than your actual Congress/Parliament or whatnot. In almost all cases the Military has the weight to toss around to secure this role, so regardless of how a political entity feels it isn't going to change much at all.

A president likely focuses on the well-being of his people on a day-to-day scale, leaving the actual difficult work up to his Military. In a system like Liberty, I wouldn't be surprised if (given it's allegedly democratic backbone) the president had power to decide who is and who isn't Admiral and such, but aside from that he's basically just a pawn because in all likelihood his Military knows "best" in a way that he will never understand. Most of these Houses have been up to their noses in conflict for hundreds of years now, and until that ends any given government will mostly consist of Military roots. Much like Sparta or Rome you could say, almost all of these civilizations are locked in atleast one or two bloodfeuds, and as a result society has become rather militant itself. It's the reason you see civilian factions like the Xenos lashing out and leading their own war and so on.



Besides, there really isn't much room for politics in Freelancer. Sure, you could fly around and negotiate with other parties and do various political things, but at the end of the day the server will remain the same as it was before you arrived. Freelancer itself isn't very dynamic in any sense, and that pretty much ruins any political plans.