It has mountains, 100 years of democracy and no standing army.

Both, by contrast, would reject a standing army or police department.

Because he needs to tax the people to pay for his standing armies.

It is a standing army, not so good as a peace.

They knew firsthand what can happen when the government, its standing army, and the police have too much power.

The king had wanted to keep open the chance of using the site also as a barracks for a standing army.

There was no police force, but common sense dictated the need for a standing army.

And they were never the threat always presented by a standing army.

The size of the standing army was about 300,000 and increased to 600,000 toward the late empire period.

Unless this world did not have much of a standing army.