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So, is the average human in the Imperium really living a life of complete misery ?
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The Imperium seems to only care that the Emperor is worshipped, soldiers and tithes are provided to them whenever it is needed, and leaving the planets’ to manage their local politics and cultures as long as they don’t outright betray the Imperium.

We’re talking about 1 million worlds, with the vast majority of them being planets that have a multitude of nations, city-states, religions, dialects, cultures etc… just like our Earth.

Such a vast setting should be more than enough to have a have a 100 billion different small human countries inside Imperium-controlled worlds that provide quite decent living conditions for its populations no ? In our history, there have been many horrible rulers, but also many decent ones that cared about their lands and the people that were under their rule.

So shouldn’t it be the same in 40k, but on a larger scale ?

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You're simply arguing a point I never made. You're talking about planets. I'm talking about planets. OP is talking about nation-states.

So, is the average human in the Imperium really living a life of complete misery ?

No.

Such a vast setting should be more than enough to have a have a 100 billion different small human countries inside Imperium-controlled worlds that provide quite decent living conditions for its populations no ?

with the vast majority of them being planets that have a multitude of nations, city-states, religions, dialects, cultures etc

No the Imperium is self destructively centralist on the planetary level. Either the whole planet works out or not. Once the imperium lands the whole place gets culturally & ethnically Paraguy'd so when the titheman comes the crop is of uniform quality.

But yeah no there's plenty places that are more Boston than a Dickensian London crossed with 80s Manila meets Liveleak's Top 5000 Greatest Hits. Not amazing by any standard of measurement but okay.

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