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Date: 2009-01-07 11:03 pm (UTC)The Vor in Bujold's Vorkosigan series remind me of the Prussian Junker aristocracy in 19th-century Germany. Left to themselves they'll happily sleepwalk their serfs into the interstellar equivalent of World War I, so here's hoping their 1848 turns out better than ours did.
The Numenoreans in Tolkien's Middle Earth run a feudal system not unlike that of the Normans in medieval England. They seem pretty secure though; I think the best we can hope for here (as in the case of England) is that eventually intermarriage and the passage of time will erase the racial distinctions on which the feudal hierarchy is built.