(02-05-2017, 05:45 PM)Zelmanov Wrote: Ishgard, despite its social stratification is a meritocracy.
As you pointed out it's not that black and white. Every society has meritocratic aspects regardless of its dominant public constitution. Any military is going to be, for example. But being unable to become a noble from a lowborn means Ishgard cannot wholesale be a meritocracy.