Barrayar reminds me a bit of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as portrayed in /A Sailor of Austria/, except -less- linguistically messed up. Before World War II displaced a lot of people into ethnic nation-states, language enclaves were much more common. Many still exist.
Switzerland might be a good general comparison for Barrayar. Multilingual, high local autonomy. Districts are more comparable to cantons or even separate countries than U.S. states.
The Nexus isn't all that far future...somewhere in the vague vicinity of 1000 years?
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Date: 2009-05-16 11:24 pm (UTC)Switzerland might be a good general comparison for Barrayar. Multilingual, high local autonomy. Districts are more comparable to cantons or even separate countries than U.S. states.
The Nexus isn't all that far future...somewhere in the vague vicinity of 1000 years?