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Ipso facto, the ncr's citizens enjoy very precious few social liberties. And those that they do enjoy, say, the suffrage of women - can you really call that a freedom? The citizens are taxed to the breaking point. If it's not possible for Farmer Dan to support his family by himself, is it actually a "liberty" for his wife and daughter to also work, or does it become a necessity of survival? Which, because the ncr also collects additional taxes off of his wife and daughter, is that an ideologically motivated choice for society, or an engineered choice to extract resources from a militarily conquered populace? The ncr also exists in a tiered society. The older your family is, the more ties they have, the better off they tend to be. Put a second way, even if your ancestors were dirt farming tribals in Arroyo, the sunset clause of the districted tax code used by the ncr would mean that the newer an addition to the ncr is, the more harshly it is treated, so people from Arroyo will have it easier than someone from say, Goodsprings in the ncr ending; and not just a little easier, a lot. Does it actually mean anything for the overall liberty of society if the society run by mobsters and their stooges don't care if you're a homosexual? This isn't even addressing that it's even good for business, given the boom of porn and prostiution centered in new reno, the original money maker of the families, benefits deeply from a society which is "sexually liberal". Circling back to Farmer Dan, is it actually liberty if his daughter is munching on muff to bring home her cut of dough when the alternative is destitution? Is it liberty if it can be rescinded any time a government official (mobster) wants? Is it liberty if you're only ALLOWED to do it as long as it is beneficial for the powers that be? I argue: no, no it is not. And in that way, at least the legion is more honest in its enslavement of women than the ncr, which presents a genial facade.