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** Apparently averted with Haven, amusingly: when you meet their officers, very few get their jobs because of having relatives in high places (although to be fair, after two revolutions the people in the high places change significantly).
** Stated to be one of the problems facing the Solarian military: most of their senior military leadership gets their positions through having relatives who are also senior military leaders.
***Really this is dirtier then other examples. You expect people to be nice to their relations and anyway that is the entire point of aristocracy. Besides Manticorans do as has been said have the redeeming feature of getting blown up for [[Family Honor]]. Solarians are often not so much traditional nepotists as temporarily successful players of bureaucracy which often includes incestuous alliances with criminal syndicates who have enough blackmail on them to order them around when the time comes.
** The ultimate example is, of course, the Mesan Alignment: the leadership is {{spoiler|composed of clones}} or carefully chosen and selected/engineered children of other leaders.
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