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On Fri, 5/2/14, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Rules for fleshing out balkanized worlds?
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Friday, May 2, 2014, 1:18 PM

 On May
 2, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:

 >
 > I recall reading one of Asimov's
 'later' books about his Galactic Empire (it was the
 one where he describes the capital, Trantor.
 >
 > It was set in the
 time where Hari Seldon first came to Trantor & the
 planet seemed to me to be highly 'balkanized'.
 >
 > Since then I've
 always leaned towards the idea that hi-pop worlds in the TU
 were effectively 'balkanized' w/ various federative,
 autonomous, etc, regions, similar to the way a lot of
 nations here on earth have 'reservations',
 'preserves' or other areas where one could easily
 feel as if he were in a different country altogether.
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 To bring it back to Carlos’ question, perhaps
 ‘Balkanized’ merely refers to the major powers, or the
 fact that there are Imperial Starports in four or five major
 countries, each with different Gov/Law/TL’s…and ALL
 planets are an amagamation of a bunch of different political
 entities.

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 Bruce Johnson
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I see your point.

Allow me to clarify wrt;
 RE: "ALL planets are an amagamation of a bunch of different political
 entities".

This is actually what I intended when I said, "all hi-pop worlds in the TU
 were effectively 'balkanized'".

I was speaking of a more generic def of 'balkanized' than the more specific Trav one.