# The Success of the Federal Grand Prix

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**Category:** Intergalactic Summit\
**Created:** [March 28, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/the-success-of-the-federal-grand-prix/302747 "2021-03-28T19:10:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arrendis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arrendis/32/432594_2.png) [@Arrendis](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arrendis)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/the-success-of-the-federal-grand-prix/302747/23 "2021-04-07T19:36:33Z")

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Well, one of the great ironies of any representational democracy where representation is demarcated by physical location is that for all their deeply-held and loudly-proclaimed love of liberty, they need to control where people can settle, because anyplace new means new members of the power-wielding class. If nothing else, that’s one reason many of us prefer the Tribal model, with the power held by representatives of the Tribes—people, not places.

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