Which nations represent order and good?

[AlgaeNymph]

I'm not sure how to vote; so many of them benefit from order scales, and I haven't played all of them yet.

I am reasonably sure that LA C'tis and Agartha aren't evil, or are at least ethical for necromancer-based nations.

[Dedas]

Any nation that stops my plan of world domination is evil.

[Sombre]

Who voted for Yomi in EA? I'd love to hear why.

[Cerlin]

Im honestly Bogarus got any votes. While they may have an amount of intellectual "Freedom" Im not sure the religion could be considered friendly, even to their own people.

[Ewierl]

Personally, I consider LA Man to be one of the most positive socities, in terms of internal benevolence (benefits for own people) and a lack of any major sketchy practices (e.g. institutionalized torture or human sacrifice).

In an age when death-magic and world-consuming powerhouses spread widely, with magic on the decline, the nation with strong civic/mundane educational practices has a big edge on the "benevolence" count. While most nations are in decline and decay, Man has turned its decline into a new path that is only just beginning, and would reap serious long-term benefits. Ulm turned away from the path of craft/technology between MA and LA, leaving Man to carry the banner of post-magic progress.

[Edi]

I would generally say that MA and LA Arco, Man (all eras), Eriu, Tir na n'Og, Tien Chi (practically all eras) and Ulm in EA and MA could be characterized as good. Utgård doesn't seem too bad either. Pythium in both MA and LA is also fairly good. MA Mictlan is perhaps the most directly goody-twoshoes nation. Ermor in EA is also a fairly nice one.

Marverni and the Van nations as well, except for the bit about the occasional human sacrifice.

From the point of view of being a citizen of one of them, that is. Hell, I'd pick any one of those for myself when compared to EA or LA Mictlan, any era Abysia, Gath, Hinnom or Ashdod, Yomi, Shinuyama, Lanka, R'lyeh or the other nonhuman nations or Machaka. Marignon is out due to ****ty living conditions and misery in the MA and devil worship and blood sacrifices in the LA.

MA Tien Chi would perhaps be the most tranquil and ordered one, or perhaps MA Ulm, with the greatest safety factor for the average citizen.

[Endoperez]

MA Agartha is nice, but sad. It's orderly and good, but already in the decline. It's so sad, really, especially because Agarthans mostly are worse than the other races.

[Sawyer]

EA and MA Kailasa never really seemed like they meant to harm anyone...

[moderation]

Edi said:
I would generally say that MA and LA Arco, Man (all eras), Eriu, Tir na n'Og, Tien Chi (practically all eras) and Ulm in EA and MA could be characterized as good. Utgård doesn't seem too bad either. Pythium in both MA and LA is also fairly good. MA Mictlan is perhaps the most directly goody-twoshoes nation. Ermor in EA is also a fairly nice one.

You know, I was reading in the manual that EA Arco keeps slaves to support their way of life. There's not enough detail to tell whether MA and LA Arco do this. However it does rather complicate the question of who is evil if they do keep slaves. Maybe KO can help us out here.

[TheMenacer]

I think LA Agartha is probably one of the "good guys", as far as anyone can be in Dominions 3. They may be all about necromancy and suchlike, but it seems more like they really respect the dead Pale Ones and at their very least ethical, they use mindless corpses as slave labor, which is arguable one way or the other as far as ethics go considering that it's not like they chain up some poor sap's soul for all of eternity or something, they just use abandoned bodies for heavy lifting. Pretty interesting considering that undead are cool as hell and every single other game always makes anyone who trucks with them out to be worse than six Hitlers tied together with snakes.