Re: Optimal location of world capital

Damien Valentine <valends3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> I notice a lot of folks are assuming things like launch sites and
> space elevators.  While that's a reasonable enough assumption to make
> on rec.arts.sf, I feel obliged to point out that advanced technology
> was never part of Hardcow's original post.  The "imagined utopian
> world state" could, _in principle_, be pre-industrial.
> 
> That would also answer Mr. Warkus' objection that:
> 
>> Location and population distribution are irrelevant criteria, because
>> these days, viability as a capital is not dependent upon economic
>> strength or how long people take to reach it on foot anymore.

If locaton, population and infrastructural considerations are irrelevant,
exactly what would be the point of this question? If every spot is
equal, just pick a spot. Perhaps pick a really nice looking spot.


mcv.
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