The Liberty Lemma

"The more productive a political system gets, the more likely it is for that system to be US-like." - Wizardry and Steamworks, 2025

Coined by Wizardry and Steamworks in 2025 as part of the original phrases section, the phrase is political and expresses the fact that political systems that have been productive since the very start of recorded history have typically benefited from a degree of freedoms that are akin to the liberties expressed by the US constitution and amendments. The thesis is that the political liberties such as "free speech", "castle laws", "habeas corpus" (actually attributed to the UK via the Magna Carta), and so on, are the liberties that lead to a productive system.

With regards to the former mention of the Magna Carta, this law is not broken due to UK-academia being trivially monarchical, it's just that UK academia had the same sort of liberties as well as financing even from the monarchy itself, such that outcomes are still productive and very different from that of a repressive oligarchical system. It also goes to justify why by the time "democracy" became fashionable and other peoples stopped clubbing each other over the head, UK-based academia had already catalogued every other specie of grasshoppers.

The "systems" are actually smaller political demarcations or enclaves that would include academia, Universities, the press and by extension also the general aspect of things. Interestingly, even in repressive or oligarchical systems, such as Romania, any real "success" in terms of production of the former systems is weighed in terms of governmental non-intervention and non-regulation.

By extension via magic, specifically haunts one can even draw an overall "aspectual" parallel of the results with the results obtained within the US for the systems that are productive.

This law is actually a lemma because the reasoning is expressed backward by going from the results to obtain the thesis.