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* [[Even Mooks Have Loved Ones]]: One of the Dominic Flandry stories ended with Flandry successfully killing a Merseian agent who'd been stirring up rebellion on a Terran world. Then Flandry wondered if the agent had some children who couldn't understand why their father hadn't come home.
* [[Feudal Future]]: The Terran Empire is more recognisable as using this trope, but the late Polesotechnic league is more literally feudal. Van Rijn at one point speaks of getting an "oath of fealty" from an employee before giving the young fellow a major promotion.
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Dennitza is an amalgamation. It is primarily based on Serbia to the point of having a descendant of Orthodox Christianity as their chief religion, and Serbian aristocratic titles. It's military has militia-like aspects and it has a cultural as well as defensive role in society such as being the focus of clubs and fellowships and youth groups rather as in Switzerland or Israel. And its politics is something more like British politics with parliamentering and limited aristocracy and representation for commoners. It also has a custom of ritual protest demonstration which may be more an American tradition(Flandry uses this last custom to get a hearing in Parliament just as they are about to declare rebellion against the Terran Empire because of Aycharach's schemes).
**The Polesotechnic League has some likeness to the Hanseatic League.
**The Ythrians are like Medieval Icelanders in their resistance to the idea of a bureaucratic state. Or indeed any state other then the minimum for them which is far below what humans would consider minimum.
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