[SUBMITTED]Stakes before Cheese?
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 9:47 amOkay, here as promised is a draft issue about potential trade-offs between the Cheese Exports and Wood-chipping industries. Its title is obviously adapted from the RL slogan “Guns before Butter”, and all of the slogans used in the second option are also derived from RL ones…
Second draft:
Second draft:
Stakes before Cheese?
[validity]Cheese not banned
[argument]With demand for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cheese in decline, both at home and on the export market, the dairy industry is being challenged by the timber industry over its continued use of some publicly-owned lands.
[option]"If the dairies can't sell as much cheese as they used to then obviously they don't need as much milk, neither," says timber industry lobbyist @@RANDOMMALENAME@@ "so the country doesn't need such large herds of dairy cattle in the first place… So why not turn the sections of the Red-backed @@ANIMAL@@ Hills that are currently assigned for grazing over to us, so that we can make better use of that land by turning it into forestry plantations, instead?"
[validity]no added limits
[effect]milkmaids are retraining as lumberjacks
[stats]Cheese Exports industry declines, Pizza Delivery industry declines slightly, Wood-chipping Industry increases, Furniture Restoration industry increases slightly, Most Pro-Market increases slightly, Most Subsidised Industry decreases slightly, Best Weather increases slightly
[option]"Nonsense!" retorts @@RANDOMNAME@@, the chairperson of the Cheese Marketing Board. "The wonderful cheeses from that district are an important aspect of our fair land's traditional cuisine, all we need is a big advertising campaign — well, and maybe some help from the treasury in paying for that — to remind folks of the fact and I'm sure that sales will rise again. I can just hear some of the possible slogans now: 'Go to work on Toasted Cheese', 'Eat a pound-a Cheese a week', 'Cheddar is good for you'. And it's not as though the existing plantations around there yield much useful timber, anyway, the soil's wrong for that, so in fact it would make more sense to let us add those sections to our pastures."
[validity]no added limits
[effect]posters on every billboard urge people to 'Keep Calm & Eat Some Cheese'
[stats]Cheese Exports industry increases, Pizza Delivery industry increases slightly, Wood-chipping Industry decreases, Furniture Restoration industry decreases slightly, Most Pro-Market decreases slightly, Most Subsidised Industry increases, Culture increases slightly, Taxation increases slightly
[option]"Accursed are the cheese-makers," interjects Violetist Grand Poobah @@RANDOMFEMALENAME@@ who has pushed her way into this meeting. "For verily cheese is an abomination in the nose of Violet! Kill it, kill it with fire!! And kill the sinners who produce it, too!!!"
[validity]Religion not banned
[effect]the smell of toasting cheese is commonly accompanied by the screams of burning cheese-makers
[stats]Cheese is banned; Cheese Exports industry collapses, Pizza Delivery industry probably collapses, Economic Freedoms/Most Pro-Market decrease, Black Market increases; Wood-chipping industry increases (not just because of improved access to land, but to fuel those fires…); Civil Rights drop significantly, Religiousness increases, Godlessness decreases; deaths attributed to ‘Ritual Sacrifice’ increase
