Whatever of Kameqó
Single-system polity, consisting of the star system of Kameqó (Uulder Shore) with the exception of a small number of independent drifts. Its unusual galactographic sobriquet comes from its extreme governancial instability. Over the last century, Kameqó has enjoyed the following governances:
- Kingdom of Kameqó (constitutional monarchy)
- Kingdom of Kameqó (absolute monarchy)
- Republic of Kameqó (democracy)
- Holy Land of Kameqó (theocracy)
- Kameqóan Militate (military junta)
- Lintenian Kameqó Protectorate (externally-imposed governance following an unsuccessful attempt at interstellar imperialism)
- Restored Regent-Kingdom of Kameqó (regency)
- Confederated Workers’ Soviets of Kameqó (communist state)
- Kameqóan Interregnal Period (anarchy)
- Eternal Holy Land of Kameqó (theocracy)
- Civic Plutocracy of Kameqó (corporate city-states)
- People’s Republic of Kameqó (socialist democracy)
- People’s Techlepathic Republic of Kameqó (hive-mind democracy)
- Ascetacy of Kameqó (primitivist)
- Panic Guilds of Kameqó (prandialist syndicracy)
Despite this rapid turnover in governance, the Kameqó system remains relatively safe to visit for outsiders, provided that they refrain from opining on political topics or otherwise appearing to take any sides in local political affairs; unusually, the Kameqóan political sects tend to concentrate their internecine warfare on each other, and even local “non-polit” residents find it possible to keep their heads down and get on with their lives, despite the ongoing rain of inconvenience from above and the severely deleterious effect it has on the system economy.
The primary export of the Kameqó polity is newsbytes; its primary imports include weapons, relief supplies, political memes, and sociodynamicists. Those considering speculative trade should bear in mind that, due to the aforementioned deleterious effects, Kameqóan local currency is commonly valued below an equivalent volume of blank scrip, and is in any case subject to complete devaluation at the next change in governance; trading only in hard currency is advised.
Libertist theorists point to Kameqó as an example of the systemic failure modes inherent in any kind of cratic governance. Serious libertist theorists point to Kameqó as an example of a pathological case that makes for a terrible example.
– Leyness’s Worlds: Guide to the Ecumene