Re: Feudal Technocra-what?

[email removed] writes:
>
>   Everyone knows what a charismatic dictator is. Likewise with a religious
> dictatorship. What `Balcanized' means is unfortunately self-explanatory.
> But what is a feudal technocracy?

As I understand it, it's where the community is dependant on something,
e.g. vacc suits on an airless world, water on a desert world, cars on a
world where the population is small and scattered.  The ruling elite are
the ones who control the key commodity.  Imagine Dune with the Fremen
taking complete control of the universe, due to their monopoly of melange.

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