Civics and Civil Wars/Secessions

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Vince278
A Civil War can be considered a period of anarchy.

A civil war is very different from anarchy.

[GeoModder]

I think, for the European powers back then, that the secession attempt in the USA was quite anarchistic.

Or to give a more recent example: how about the Yuguslavian secessions? Do you think all of the territory was neatly divided from the beginning, with people allocated according to their 'nationality' in a harmless way to them?

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
A civil war is very different from anarchy.

Organized anarchy (hope that doesn't sound too much like an oxymoron).

[sophist]

Originally posted by Max Sinister
That would be way too many. There hasn't been that much of anarchy in history, too.

The warring states period in ancient China was pretty long, as were the Hundred Years and the Thirty Years Wars in Europe. Those weren't exactly anarchy, but I think that's more the sort of thing the civ designers are aiming for. You could argue that some countries are so non-functional as to have been in permanent states of anarchy for decades, like Somalia or Republic of Congo or Afghanistan from 1979 to the present (with varying degrees of order imposed on part of the country part of the time by the USSR, Taliban, and USA). If it helps, don't think of the civ "anarchy" isn't anarchy in the sense of complete lawlessness and lack of control, think of it more as being enough anarchy that any useful production goes to just staying afloat, with no surplus for anything more.