[quote=@The Fated Fallen] Maybe slavery based on the idea that you want people high up who know what they are doing, so why not make sure that you can train them from birth and not allow them to switch career paths? Maybe the state believes in an individual having their own personal life, as long as they serve Giray first in body, mind and soul without question? [/quote] Hmm...the first one sounds good. Also, how about this? Giray [i]started out[/i] with a normal form of Government, a Sultanate, which turned out to be on some important trade/sea lanes. Because it was on important trade/sea lanes, various races, religions, and ethnic groups traveled to the Sultanate to trade/as refugees/both. This caused the Sultans to fear their own people, and so create a class of Slave Soldiers and Slave Bureaucrats that would theoretically be loyal to them. However, after a few generations, these Slaves overthrew the Last Sultan and established an oligarchy. This oligarchy, however, needed a way to justify its betrayal of the Sultan and its assumption of Giray's rule, as well as a way to fund itself; it needed money from the people, and if they took it by force, they would be overthrown. So, they decided to make their actions sound righteous by saying that they overthrew the Last Sultan in order to [i]restore[/i] freedom to the people, and that the Mamluks and Slave-Bureaucrats will uphold their right to be who they want to be, worship who they want, marry whatever race or gender they want, and other rights, if they would pay for the upkeep of the Slaves and endorse the taking of new ones. Needless to say, the people of Giray accepted this bargain, and gave their money and resources to the Slave System. How's that sound?