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“Systems of government,” says BarmyWaffle, “if you can call the Wor Council a government!”
“Officially, ThunderCloud is the leader of the Wor Council,” notes CandiCrush, quickly adding, “though he behaves more like a Roman Emperor who controls everything. The Wor Council simply rubber stamps everything he says.”
BarmyWaffle continues, “they have no police force, no civil defence service, just pirates and militias. It’s as if the Roman Empire evolved clumsily, missed out some of the steps, and promptly transformed into the Italian Mafia.”
“And that’s why we have a Garrison,” says CandiCrush, “self defence! If we weren’t able to defend ourselves they’d take everything we own. Meirionydd has the same problem. They have a border with Worringfolk too. And they have a garrison. In Welsh theirs is called a Byddin. The Manx have a Sidooryn, and the Irish call theirs the Láigen.”
“Surely Worringfolk has a police force,” says KristalClear, “didn’t everything evolve from the England and Wales system before The Decimation?”
“That’s a tough one!” says CandiCrush, “Barmy is older than me, so he might know more, but basically the history is a bit of fact and a bit of guesswork. For hundreds of years we’ve relied on defectors, and prisoners of war, to help us piece together a picture of what’s happening inside Worringfolk.”
Earnestly, BarmyWaffle says, “this is all a generalisation you understand, the communities along the River Mersey had some charming people and some tedious people. The ones who originally came from Mannin and Leinster went back home. The charming ones in the remaining population basically upped sticks and moved out. In all directions. Many of them came north to what is now Wolfland. When the vineyards first started to appear in Meirionydd many people chose to go there. That left an imbalance in Worringfolk, with lots of tedious people remaining.”
“But they still had a police force, and law and order, didn’t they?” asks KristalClear, “and a Garrison or whatever it was called back then?”
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