Government
The Pale is a theocracy administered in the name of Pholtus, god of Light, Resolution, and Law. All government offices are held by Pholtan clerics. The Pale is ruled from Wintershiven by a religious bureaucracy with command over the military, law enforcement, economics, trade, and nearly every aspect of life.
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“Good government is the outcome of private virtue.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“Nor the tame will, nor timid brain,
Nor heavy knitting of the brow
Bred that fierce tooth and cleanly limb
And threw him up to laugh on the bough;
No government appointed him.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“It doesn’t matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.”
—Graffiti. London (1970s)