Chapter 710: A different democracy (2/2)

Only after they ate it did they understand. The dish cost a few hundred spirit stones which isn't much to them and after they ate they understood why they are focused on the food.

The food they ate has enough spiritual energy to compensate for the spirit stones they paid. And just like any food that has spiritual energy, this can also be easily digested.

Cultivation is a boring thing no matter how power-hungry a person is. Particularly cultivating with the spirit stones is something completely boring and time taking. If they exchanged it with food like this, it is indeed timesaving and pleasurable as the taste is also good.

And if someone managed to maintain a routine like this, they would also have a standard growth pattern as long as they managed to keep their comprehension up with the energy consumption.

At Sam's level, they would have to consume millions of spirit stones worth of spiritual energy to break through a single level and one could guess how boring it would be.

But the current meal is not of much help as it is more suitable for Nascent stage cultivators and most of them are the ones eating in this place.

They roamed around the town for a while and checked in the inn while Sam sent the shadow mice to gather information on what are the happenings of the town and how the world works.

Old Beast did say that Sam would feel nostalgic, but he didn't explain how. Sam is already feeling nostalgic with the market and the crops, but he is sure that this world has more than that to offer, so he is waiting for the news.

They stayed for the night and waited for the shadow mice to get the required news and the mice only came back the next morning with a lot of information.

They seemed to have infiltrated some special places as they brought some really great information to them. One of the shadow mice even stole a book on the law of this world. This surprised Sam a lot. If there is a book for laws specifically then the society must be extremely civilized since there are so many laws and this book is a common commodity for all the officials.

Sam went through the information brought by the mice and the information from the book and learned a good deal of the situation here and he also understood why he would feel nostalgic.

Because the government here is no formed by the nobility or the royalty, rather it is created by democracy.

That is right, the whole world runs of democracy, and the people can elect their leaders.

There are also bureaucrats called the Elders that oversee the election and the departments and under the ministers and the local governments. Except for the major core leader who has the highest power in any place, the rest of the employees under the government has to study in the school of bureaucracy to gain employment in any governing body.

Except for some normal jobs like attendants, gatekeepers, guards, and physical labor, the remaining governing and administrative jobs will all be taken by the examinations conducted to the school of bureaucracy.

This is something Sam didn't see coming at all. He thought this realm will also be something similar to the rest of the realms he visited, with the royalty and imperials ruling all over the common public and such. Things like Slavery and forced prostitution would be common here too.

But things are different in the book of laws, there is a strict law against slavery and even though there is prostitution, a prostitute must be registered with the government before she or he could earn money in such a way.

The registration process will only be approved once they verified that the person in question is not being forced by any external parties.

Due to this process, Prostitution is actually a kind of high-end profession in the world.

This is even more enlightening.

But it is not some kind of saintly planet. The elections might help the people choose their leader, but not every species has the same treatment.

There are two types of residents in this realm. One of them is a citizen and the other is a civilian. These two words mean extremely different in this world.

The Citizens are common people who generally live in this world under the protection of normal laws with no special privileges. They can be humans and centaurs, but they don't have the right to vote. But Civilians are the residents that have the right to vote.

Elves who are the superior and ruling race here are all civilians since birth and the only requirement for their voting right is that they should reach their awakening age.

As for the remaining two races, the Centaurs and humans, they are born citizens, and to become civilians there are specific requirements like their work experiences, agricultural land, their soldier duties, or paying a certain amount of tax, there are many alternative routes where citizens can become civilians and currently this is a time where most people change their statuses because the elections are going.

Sam couldn't help but smile at the timing they arrived.