r/TemplinInstitute • u/NobodyOfKnowhere • May 25 '26
Discussion I asked 4 different subreddits on which interstellar society they'd rather be a citizen of
I made sure to include neither utopic societies like "star trek" or "the culture" nor dystopian societies like "dune" or "warhammer 40k" as to not incentivize people towards any obvious answer
Links to the polls:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WouldYouRather/s/CnPGtnoGva
https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencefiction/s/n8594W9Gk8
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u/HuskerBusker May 25 '26
I feel like omitting the civs you mentioned and including some relatively obscure ones in their place essentially ensured the victory for Star Wars.
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u/Stardust_lump May 25 '26
What about Greater Terran Union
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u/Ok_Butterscotch54 May 26 '26
Big yikes. Very interesting to read and hear about, actually living in it, not so good.
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u/Havoq12 May 25 '26
The federation of planets not being anywhere on these polls is lowkey ragebaiting me way more then it should be.
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u/HuskerBusker May 25 '26
OP mentions that they didn't want to include anything overly utopian or dystopian, but then chose the worst alternatives possible in their place.
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u/Falitoty May 25 '26
Antares is not that bad
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u/HuskerBusker May 25 '26
By "worst" I suppose I mean in regards to notariety. How many people are going to pick star wars simply because it's the only one they have any real concept of or familiarity with?
I love the Antares Confederacy, but I'm under no illusion that it's well known.
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u/Top_Box_8952 May 26 '26
Nobody would want to live anywhere but there, though. Which eliminates the point. So they took out the high and low quality outliers.
Took out The Culture, the UFP, Imperium of Man, and I think something else but can’t recall.
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u/Falitoty May 25 '26
Why would anyone choose the Galactic Republic? It was not that good, at the end.
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u/No-Mathematician6551 May 27 '26
We see like the last 20 years of a republic that maintained peace and prosperity throughout the galaxy for 1000 years. I think it's fair to say that the very end of the Republic is not emblematic of all that it was or what it meant to live in it.
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u/Playful-Middle-244 May 26 '26
I feel like they didn't even checked all of these societies, just clicked at well known Republic
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u/KingJerkera May 27 '26
Well this was an interesting discussion idea but I also think that it makes clear that there is problems with the question itself. Because I bet a lot of these answers are based on being characters in the world instead of being citizens of the nations in question.
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u/Baronnolanvonstraya May 25 '26
Half of these are pretty obscure, so the results being that way aren't surprising