Dear party,
This simulation is now officially boring as hell. Like I thought once we moved away from playing with things that are intrinsic to the game to things that are made up by the parties in power the game has ground to a halt. The budget discussion is all so fun that even a tangent on how to best outfit our navy didn't interest more than three people, two of them from this party (telling me I'm full of shit
).
As such I'd like to see suggestions for the most divisive, outrageous and inflammatory legislation that we can come up with to be our first piece of legislation.
Ideas that will stroke more than a few nerves in game:
1). Banning copyrights/patents/intellectual property outright.
2). Bringing up the problems of racism in to the game, specifically the closet racists on the right not being given the lenient treatment in parliament that they are given on the rest of the site. Possibly by offering amnesty to all Palestinians or some such we can get a nice long debate about this going.
Things that are interesting to play around with but haven't been mentioned here yet:
3) Banning all numbers longer than lets say 400,000 digits because with the right mapping from base ten to base 2 you can use those to transmit terrorist information/child porn/copyright violations etc.
4) Legalizing all drugs
and creating a state run monopoly on the drug trade primarily as a revenue generator.
5) Scrapping all the conventional arms budget proposed by the government in favour of space exploration/sea floor coloniastion/claims on the poles where most farming land will be in the next few centuries.
6) Perusing a WMD programme with weapons that do not fall foul of any treaties such as particle accelerators that if pointed in the right direction and the right target matter could conceivably fry entire cities on the other side of the planet, space born capabilities, ie nudging asteroids into the planet etc.
Personally I think all of these would be awesome but 5 and 6 hold particular favour in my heart.
Rolled into one I think the best idea I can come up with is:
Building a controlled hot fusion capability, as fas as I know this is does not require monitoring by international bodies, using the vast amount of energy released by this to produce antimatter in a large particle accelerator for a new generation of portable WMD. Using the knowhow from our reactors, which due to technical reason too long to list here will make excellent space propulsion systems, into creating a next generation of space craft capable of interplanetary flight on scales that are actually useful, ie months rather than decades, and using those to lay our claim on the asteroid belts, outer solar system bodies and possible Oort Cloud.
- By Potemkin
- By Puffer Fish