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=== Variety === | === Variety === | ||
While the Alliance is devoted to liberty and self-determination, it includes [[Star Systems|star systems]] with various [[government]] types. This varies from democracy to dictatorship and other restrictive, undemocratic forms of government.<ref name=":5">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/55c1d2b89657ba00210d630d Children of Liberty call out Alliance Hypocrisy, 07 AUG 3301] | While the Alliance is devoted to liberty and self-determination, it includes membership of [[Star Systems|star systems]] with various [[government]] types. This varies from democracy to dictatorship and other restrictive, undemocratic forms of government.<ref name=":5">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/55c1d2b89657ba00210d630d Children of Liberty call out Alliance Hypocrisy, 07 AUG 3301] | ||
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There are systems where [[narcotics]], [[genetic engineering]] and [[slavery]] are legal. For example Alliance systems with [[anarchy]] governments take [[slaves]] and [[Imperial Slaves|imperial slaves]] which become regular slaves. The difference is those systems don't want people who live in other systems to govern them.<ref>https://www.edsm.net/en/search/systems/index/allegiance/1/onlyPopulated/1/radius/250/sortBy/distanceSol</ref> | There are systems where [[narcotics]], [[genetic engineering]] and [[slavery]] are legal. For example Alliance systems with [[anarchy]] governments take [[slaves]] and [[Imperial Slaves|imperial slaves]] which become regular slaves. The difference is those systems don't want people who live in other systems to govern them.<ref>https://www.edsm.net/en/search/systems/index/allegiance/1/onlyPopulated/1/radius/250/sortBy/distanceSol</ref> | ||
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''"For an organization that purports to be devoted to the ideals of liberty and self-determination", the release stated, "the Alliance certainly tolerates a great deal of despotism and tyranny within its own borders. It's about time the Alliance addressed the rampant hypocrisy of allowing dictatorships – as well as other restrictive, undemocratic forms of government – membership into their supposed bastion of freedom and liberty."''<ref name=":5" /> | ''"For an organization that purports to be devoted to the ideals of liberty and self-determination", the release stated, "the Alliance certainly tolerates a great deal of despotism and tyranny within its own borders. It's about time the Alliance addressed the rampant hypocrisy of allowing dictatorships – as well as other restrictive, undemocratic forms of government – membership into their supposed bastion of freedom and liberty."''<ref name=":5" /> | ||
''"On revolutionary [[Eranin]] the population are expected to perform in weekly parades celebrating their independence from the Federation, even while their leaders ‘redistribute’ the people’s wages into their own back pockets."''<ref>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edrpg/elite-dangerous-role-playing-game</ref> | |||
The statement went on to list a number of Alliance-sponsored autocracies in various systems, and called on the Alliance and its supporters to sponsor serious democratic reform in said systems by backing democratically-aligned factions over autocratic ones.<ref name=":5" /> | The statement went on to list a number of Alliance-sponsored autocracies in various systems, and called on the Alliance and its supporters to sponsor serious democratic reform in said systems by backing democratically-aligned factions over autocratic ones.<ref name=":5" /> | ||