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 First, i want to say that the video is a very interesting media and I know that is centered in a ruler whose unique objective is to remain in power at all cost. This are just my two cents.



 Now, i have a feeling that, in the video, they only talk from a political perspective. There are, also, economic reasons for certain inversions in social collectives of a democracy.



 For example, perhaps you want to give a subside to farmers because you consider that the food they produce is an “strategical good” for your country. In that case, if you don't do something to raise the competitiveness of the local products, their prices could not compete with the food imported from another countries.



 That would be an economical reason, though is also true that such an action is made, by a wise ruler who want to retain his position of power, with both reasons in mind.



 Also, the bureaucratic walls have economic effects in the country that you should not overlook. It is studies in macroeconomics as “social efficiency” is used to be one of the differences between nations form the “first world” and the ones located in the “third world” when we talk about benefits of financial globalization.



 A simple formula to represent this is the following:



 q =  A * k q



 Where q is the output per worker, A the productivity level and k the capital per worker.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> Basically speaking, the poor countries have a productivity level (A) lower that the rich ones. The A parameter is considered nowadays as the social efficiently of a country. This will include institutions, public polices and cultural differences in addition to technical development. In the past, it was thought that A only depended on Technological development.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> The “principal keys” in a democracy with influence and power should be taken care of, if you truly are a democracy, with a strong system that prevent corruption, so your competitor would not dare to take certain approach in fear to be discovered and lost their possibility to appeal to the population in the elections.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> As implied before, that same system would increase your social efficiency and, from a macro economical perspective, your gains form “efficient investment” and productivity due to the financial globalization effect.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> I have a feeling that Ainz will really push forward the different market integrations securing certaind commercial routes and introducing innovations for the safety of the transportation of goods and people.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> The author of the video seems to be implying that a wise ruler should use corruption as a tool, instead of minimizing its effects. That could be true in an absolute monarchy with nobles whose armies you have no control over, but in a democracy, that “tool” should be minimized. As I said before, there exist and economical reason for this known as “social efficiency”.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">  Of course, if you don’t want to think about the potential benefits and problems derived from the financial globalization, you can ignore all this under your own responsibility.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> The point is that, that you can offer proper rewards to your “keys”/subordinates/employers without corruption. Although everyone needs money, obviously, one such a need is satisfied there are other needs a person have. Even today, we have troubles trying to understand that GDP was specifically designed to represents “economic growth” and not “social welfare”.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> Letting this little bit of economic stuff apart, in the Overlord world things are fundamentally different.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> Ainz is an immortal ruler. Many, if not all, of his vassals are also immortal. In the eyes of his subjects he is not a “man”, he is a “god”. Even before the medieval monarchy’s, ancient civilizations, like the Mesopotamians, organized around an individual that was believed to have some relationship with god. (Divine Kingship)

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> Ainz Kingdom act as a dictatorship, and Absolute Monarchy, without dynastical features. I would say that, when he conquers the world, there would exist a “parallel political organization” were all the thing explained in the video would happen. However, would happen to please the Guardians and, in extension, the Overlord. This will increase their opportunities to obtain and administrative seat as some kind of governor.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> We also know that Ainz will create, probably, a meritocratic society. Where your merits will be measured for your contribution to the Kingdom and your contribution to the succeed of the endeavors of the King.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">  One problem that could arise here is the creation of a new “social class system” in the long term if certain families are able to prove their worth in a generational basis. Although, if Ainz can implement an educational system to introduce certain basic values to his “utopian” society that could fight such tendency.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> If we see the fundamental problem of “the best dictatorship” versus “the worst democracy” I would say that Ainz represents an eternal variant of the best dictatorship. However, we don’t really know if a being with the same cognition level as a human can maintain himself “sane” after and “indefinite” amount of time.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> Thanks for reading my crazy stuff.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"> Regards.