Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151115174306/@comment-25522231-20151122182818

Phantomlink959 wrote: Idea, kingdom fell to the creatures of grimm, citizens retreat into Atlas Academy for safety, limited space and resources necessitated widespread millitary service, the new Atlas kingdom becomes a city state ruled by the military and academy staff.

Mskes sense, but it would take more than just Mantle falling to the grimm to make the idea of military dictatorship palletable in the long term, They must have actively did little to nothing to stop their fall, otherwise it would have been a set up closer to what Isreal has, everyone joins the military for x amount of years unless they have some disability, (in which case they normally do non-combatant stuff (I have cousins in Isreal)), but not a goverment run by the military, those normally really only start out as temporary means of stabilization, and while they often dont stay temporary, they also don't always become as structured as Atlas seems to be, almost like they took over shortly after a cue, before old infrastuctures were completely destroyed. which is unlike the Grimm, if the Grimm were reponsible it'd be more like a much larger Mountain Glenn. Yet clearly it was primarily the governing body that was destroyed, the infrastucture and buisnesses  (Shnee Dust company for example) thrived.