Re: Kiln People [spoilers] (was Re: Soooo...)

[Jim Sharkey]

--- On Mon 02/18, Emmanuel Caisse wrote:
>Brin seemed to imply a variety of different governments around the
>workd, PEZ (or whatever it was) being one where the "big
>deregulation" had made particularily government-free.
>
>Interestingly enough, he cites many environmental, traffic, civil,
>and other types of fines (covering everything up to corporate
>espionnage!), which makes it an extremely POLICED stated. By its
>computers and its citizens, I conjecture.

That sounds about right. Unless an actual *person* is harmed, it seems like most actions are civil in nature, resulting in fines, etc. I envisioned an at best loose central governtment, mostly concerned with protecting the populace from other countries. Self-policing and constant surveillance in its transparent society seemed to be what kept most folks following the law.

Jim

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