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Working Title: Invisible Government: From YKTTW
Charred Knight: hidden Leaf Village is the main army of the Fire country, presumably the actual capital of the Fire country is somewhere else where the Prime minister lives.
- Servitor_2152: And more comments to that effect, from various people. I'm moving them here to avoid Conversation In The Main Page.
- Really, Fridge Logic dictates that there's no way an entire town and all of the infrastructures, utilities, services, and required professions to run said town would be able to be run solely on the expertise of trained mercenaries. Even magical trained mercenaries.
- They appear to run the more mundane things (stores, apartments) on their own.
- Which only raises further questions. If this is a hidden, secret ninja village, who governs all the civilians who run the shops? What happens when the civilians in a secret village want to head to the fair in the next town over? The Hokage doesn't seem to take notice of any non-ninja citizens and we never see any police or magistrates.
- I don't suppose that Konoha's entire police force was slaughtered is a valid excuse.
- Yeah, ten years before the story starts, more than enough time to reform it or at least some way.
- Only the military police were exterminated ten years ago. The Hidden Villages are only called "hidden villages" out of convention nowadays. They aren't actually hidden. In fact, they're basically just cities where the military headquarters of a given country are based. There's a large amount of trade and intercourse as the ninjas within are hired by private citizens. The actual administration of the countries are handled by feudal lords. In fact, the lord of the country of wind is shown to have been able to greatly limit the number of mission the Sand Village god, sending its funding down the drain.
Nornagest: Cut —
- **Justified, in that the book features the average neighborhood as a "burbclave," with its own jurisdiction, hired cops, etc. In fact, the entire former U.S. in Snow Crash is privatized, and therefore, the actual US government WOULD be insanely small with minimal jurisdiction.
As much as I like Snow Crash, saying this is completely unnecessary.
