Jack watches him sharply out of the corner of his eye, but continues soothingly onwards.
"You should. Nice people. Peaceful, for the most part, due to this really weird queen of theirs. It was... perhaps a couple of hundred years ago, Earth time? Anyway, the monarch was largely a figurehead," Totally unlike England, then, "but she represented the whole planet. And one day, somehow, she passed a law through her council that banned war."
He tilts his head, eyes crinkling slightly in laughter. "And I'd say we shouldn't draw comparisons with such a hugely differing race and societal structure, but it really kind of is like our Queen Liz banning war in and by Great Britain."
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Date: 2008-06-14 10:35 pm (UTC)"You should. Nice people. Peaceful, for the most part, due to this really weird queen of theirs. It was... perhaps a couple of hundred years ago, Earth time? Anyway, the monarch was largely a figurehead," Totally unlike England, then, "but she represented the whole planet. And one day, somehow, she passed a law through her council that banned war."
He tilts his head, eyes crinkling slightly in laughter. "And I'd say we shouldn't draw comparisons with such a hugely differing race and societal structure, but it really kind of is like our Queen Liz banning war in and by Great Britain."