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==Backstory==
==Backstory==
The {{cotw}} are the prehistoric ancestors of what become known as the “''mandria''”: civilian, untutored collateral in the [[Global financial crisis|Great Financial War]].   
The {{cotw}} are the prehistoric ancestors of what become known as the “''mandria''”: the civilian, untutored collateral in the [[Global financial crisis|Great Financial War]].   


They are handsome creatures: delicate but fundamentally stupid, supine, herd-like and oddly elderly — many having lived since well before recorded time began.  
They are handsome creatures: delicate but fundamentally stupid, supine, herd-like and oddly elderly — many having lived since well before recorded time began.  
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=== Dispute resolution ===
=== Dispute resolution ===
Being largely peaceable, conflict with in the community was rare, but as in any ecosystems, there were differences. Their means of dispute resolution was uniquely democratic: disputes would be submitted to a council of elders who would formalise the “differences” against a common standard called a “contract” and any community member was allowed to bid for , and  and  is some evidence — and they called themselves the “''[[Synthæse]]''”, after all — that as their communities grew they ''exchanging'' their differences in a standardised, non-physical, “synthetic” terms across a centralised marketplace
Being largely peaceable, conflict within the community was rare, but there were differences. The ''[[Synthæse]]'' regarded physical settlement of differences as sinful and instead voluntarily ''exchanged'' their value in a central market the town square. A custom emerged of buying and selling “contracts for difference”.


==== Protection and separation ====
==== Protection and separation ====