two things

[bedlamsbard]

* I don't even know what it says about my state of mind that I'm currently concerned what the chances are that LB-era Narnia (pre-conquest) had some form of assembly or parliament or congress or something of the type. I know there's the Council of Lords in PC; I wouldn't be surprised if something of the sort had stuck around during Caspian's era -- not necessarily the old Telmarine lords, but perhaps some of the younger, more progressive ones, as well as the prominent Narnians like Glenstorm and Trumpkin. A Council of Lords -- the Small Council? Something like that -- would probably not be elected, but now I'm wondering if the Narnians had some form of representative government. It doesn't seem completely mad, even by the old Narnian system (Golden Age; I doubt there's any kind of House of Representative or House of Commons, but I'm fairly certain that the Narnians had no problem voicing complaints or requests to the Pevensies) or the Telmarine system, and I can kind of see the Pevensies and the Narnians pushing the concept on Caspian, given the circumstances. Thoughts?

* I've been hunting down good A Song of Ice and Fire art and all I can say is "Look! It's Peta!" More or less -- blue eyes, with a tabard over the armor, and with Rhindon, of course -- but that's more or less what Peta looks like in my head. Slightly softer face -- for a younger Peta, I mean. But even the tilt of the head -- Peta's a little more arrogant than Peter is, or at least a little more outspoken about it.

ETA: ...possibly this is just an excuse to rail about how civilization leads to big government, and big government leads to taxes, and some other stuff! And urbanization and industrialization! And a certain feeling of nostalgia for the simpler days of yore, and my Victorianism class is really showing here, isn't it?

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[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking, but then again, Cair Paravel is about the only major city in Narnia, so all the traders go through there...eh, I don't know.

The FBI investigates domestic terrorism (or foreign terrorism on American soil), anything that crosses state lines, some domestic crime (Wikipedia says white collar crime and violent crime, and I know the FBI does kidnappings and bank robberies, as well as some other stuff like drugs and fraud, although some of this comes under the jurisdiction of a few other agencies), and counter-espionage. And some other stuff. Sometimes organized crime.

Not counterfeiting, though. The Secret Service does that.

Hi, we are the United States of America, and we are confusing.

[aella_irene]

MI-5 do counter-espionage, the police do everything else, (they're counter-terrorism, and they were the ones called in when the MOD scientist, Dr. David Kelly, went missing. Actually they appear to have been called before he went missing, but I won't bore you with conspiracy theories...). Because we don't have states like you do, cross-county crimes, as far as I am aware, mean that there is lots of argument about jurisdiction between the police of the two counties.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

We have extremely strict laws about when a case becomes federal -- there have been court cases, and the only reason I know this is because it came up in my Gov class. But then again we've got city police (like the LAPD or the NYPD), county sheriff's departments, and state police, which sometimes cooperate and I really have no idea when something falls under which one's jurisdiction, and then it gets federal. Which usually falls to the FBI, but depending on the content, may go to one of our other fun and exciting federal agencies. Like the DEA.