Editing Free Rasalhague Republic (section)

== Society ==
The Republic/Dominion has been defined by their strong cultural identity as BattleTech's Space Vikings, with a little IRA flavor mixed in for good measure. 

Much of the Rasalhague national "character" has been otherwise dominated by the fact they've been under oppression for centuries by the Combine and openly refused to change anything about themselves, and that has mutated into a subtle cultural bias against anything Japanese thanks to their good neighbors to their "right" on the Inner Sphere map. While it's no longer outright ''racism'', it's still baked in deep. Of course, they didn't get rid of the [[Weeaboo|Weeb]] influences entirely, and so the average Rasalhaguer is a weird mashup of Swedish and Japanese in all facets of life, including the widespread language of choice, which is a next-to-impossible to understand mashup called "Swedenese", which was the inevitable result of both cultures long-term relationship with one another.

Their politics are actually quite an interesting testbed for the Inner Sphere; while still holding the semi-feudal titles of nobility, every single one of them is elected by the people and expected to work for the people. All of them. And they can get voted out at any time, with expressly written term limits. This level of unprecedented democracy has otherwise instilled most Rasalhague nobles with the impression that they must tread lightly, and most are smart enough to not compromise their positions and have post-nobility plans ready. The closest to a dynasty that came up from this was the Magnusson family, and even then that's only been three dudes, so far. And when Clan Ghost Bear came through, they more or less just separated the Clan society into the military; now run by the Khan, and all civilian society into the regular running of a country; by the Prince. Meanwhile, a legislative council made of equal portions of Trueborn Warriors, Freeborn Warriors, and Civilians ensued both the the Clan and Rasalhague citizenry had equal say in government.