1/8/2023 0 Comments Social empires episode 1No, I’m not going to do anything about it either.) (Incidentally, Count and Marquis are the wrong way round in order of precedence. ![]() So you could have the Duke of North America, the Count of Arizona, and the Marquis of Phoenix below that level the titles might provide honorifics and perhaps a small stipend, but not much else. If a King rules a planet, we might say a Duke controls a continent, a Count controls a country or region within a continent, and a Marquis a smaller area. At the referee’s discretion, nobles may have lands or power, especially those with standing 13+. Since the average world has a population of about 100,000, roughly the size of Temecula in California or Basingstoke in the UK, the ruler of the average world isn’t king of all that much, really – one medium-sized town and a few outlying farms. ![]() We know that King is a title reserved for rulers of a single world, and Emperor for rulers of several worlds. “He was ordinarily a genial, obliging young man but those who push a merchant adventurer, son of a military aristocrat, must expect to be pushed back, hard.” – Poul Anderson, Satan’s World
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