And then as Creep alluded too, despite me referring to those nations as "Mary Sue", they still have problems. I'm sure Elusenia will have problems once things get going.
I imagine so, particularly since you're modelling a brand-new society on three nations which have taken many,
many centuries of evolving cultural and economic norms to get where they are today. The Scandinavian 'liberal paradises' and the Helvetic Confederation both have very deep cultural roots which kept them more socially liberal than their neighbors throughout the centuries. Norway/Sweden, during the conversion to Christianity, got very conservative socially, but the older traditions (which, for example, were a lot more gender-equal than the Christian doctrine was comfortable with) won out in the end. Switzerland was the liberal center of Europe many centuries before Paris got republican, largely because the Swiss had a socio-political disconnect from the more 'feudaly'-traditional HRE (as well as containing the cultural remnants of the mountain-tribes which had never really been totally Romanized). These things might not be obvious in the 12th or the 15th century, but as the European social norms progressed, the Nords and the Swiss led the charge because of these factors.
Their societies had a much stronger tradition of idealizing the concept of an egalitarian, anti-classist society. Political and social realities kept these ideals from being considered achievable or even a good idea. Over time, they wore down the hierarchical systems.
What you're proposing to do is set up a city with people from all over the Federation(the whole cluster, even?), tell everyone they're egalitarian and socially liberated, and nobody is better than anyone else. I give your population a year to work out amongst themselves who the elites and the least are.
...I've just realized that everytime I post, there's a history lesson included. Sorry about that, it's force of habit.
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