User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore Sheet: The United Republic of Humankind/@comment-4867780-20150705091736/@comment-26322734-20150710004158

"Free-willed people tend to follow their own wishes, and the appeal of political independence is undeniable. Real-life history confirmed it as well, notably with former french colonies that had both great privileges and great freedom, yet pushed to the end for full-blown independence despite the considerable backdraws, simply because they wanted to truly rule themselves."



Well, that's the thing. I'd bet that they felt some kind of separation from France proper, so they separated themselves (the same thing is actually happening with Spain, I think. I'll have to check my source, but I think there are two parts of Spain that are culturally different from the rest of Spain and thus want to scede from the country). But that's simply not the case in U.R.H. As I said before, it's ''home. ''As in everybody they've ever known, their family and friends are within the U.R.H. Not only that, but there's no good reason to scede in the first place at the point of the 41st Century. It's not like the U.R.H. is restricting them in any way, keeping them from identifying with their own ideals or anything. It's like in America: this place is diverse, with many cultures and religious beliefs, but we all generally identify ourselves as American.



"Humans aren't robots, they are made of emotions as much much a logic."



Yeah, and the emotional connection to the U.R.H. comes from nationalism and a sense of kinship among themselves.



"And since the concepts of "perfection" and "independence" are often closely associated on a philosophiccal level, and countless communities are dedicated to the pursuit of their own understanding of perfection, if wouldn't be surprising if some of them perceived independence as a necessary condition."



They are allowed cultural independance within reason. The Sylva, for example, primarily reside in Yaldenshome where they practice their own customs and beliefs without the intervention of the United Government. However, they're not so isolated that they're their own sovereign nation. They are within human society, they're just independant culturally. I'll use America as an example again: Muslim society, for example. Islam is practiced in America, and the culture and customs are practiced without intervention of the Federal Government, but they're still American.