Political Ideology and Storytelling Within FFXIV

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Honestly, I can understand most of the nations going for democracy, it's basically struggling nations following the example of the ones that are doing better, what I don't like is how magical they portray democracy to be, everyone agreeing when an emergency action must be taken(Or any action for that matter) is the least democratic thing I've ever seen.

I guess it's basically that situation where humans in fantasy worlds tend to not be really humans as know, seeing as they more often than not are not nearly as tribalistic or stubborn.

This is exactly the problem I'm having with the game.

The game is defying democracy as THE political way and answer to their old terrible monarchy that are either not working well enough or were horrendously bad in the past and oversimplify the solution by saying " we doing democracy now". They always give monarchy the worst image and show democracy as a redemption like when they show how gruesome and horrible the past king of Ala Mhigo was. "Oh we surely can't go back to monarchy after this". It's always in that way 'monarchy bad vs democratic republic good' never showing it could be the other way around. Not once.

I feel like a political story can be done showing huge drama, great strategies, plots and a bunch of thrilling events without the need to assert or show political biases especially by oversimplifiying the redemption as that particular political form of government.

I mean the amount of different systems possible is vast even within a republic, they don't even explore their options, no proposition of a feudal system, no proposition of a constitutional monarchy or City-state or any other than the simplistic humanist definition of a free state, democracy.