THIS IS MY DRAFT FOR THE COMPETION.
NATIONSTATES ISSUE
NAME: Gluten On the Fritz
DESCRIPTION: Food transperency advocates and concerned mothers with allergic children have petitioned the government to require the notation of products that contain gluten and caisen, the main ingediants in bread and dairy, which are common allergens amongst the youth in your nation.
VALIDITY: For all nations with Agriculture at one point or higher, and enough political freedoms to petition the government.
THE ISSUE:
[option]"It's not hard to put a label on the side of a box, is it? No, it's not, and it's not like we can make companies do it on their own by not buying their stuff." chirps @@RAMDOMNAME@@, self-described Socialist and advicate of the 'nanny state'. "Only the government can right this wrong and do it for us, because we're not going to group together and vote with our wallets! Oh, and while you're at it, label those GMO foods too. Those scare me."
[effect]the government is beginning to get into the business of forcing labels on foodstuffs
[stats]Economic Freedom down (regulations on businesses), Retail up (as someone on that diet before, the alternatives are HECK-A expensive, and many people seek these foods out), Health up, Obesity down, Civil Rights up (forcing transparency is technically Civil Rights een if it molests the economic freedoms)
[option]"How can you see that as the solution; the answer is dead obvious! Gluten and caisen are in almost everything, and every spoonful we lovingly feed our children is like giving them poison! That's right, POISON!" shouts @@RAMDOMNAME@@, saving a sign that reads 'Bread is Satan'. "There is only one way to solve this. We must ban gluten and caisen entirely! Sure, crumbly non-gluten bread is practically inedible, and it costs a fortune to buy alternatives to two of the most common ingredients in all food, but it's worth helping our kids grow strong and lose weight!"
[effect]citizens not adjusting to crumbly no-wheat bread and soymilk are starving due to astronimical food prices since the ban on gluten and caisen has come into force
[stats]Death by Malnourishment/Starvation way up (though healthier, it costs a bomb and the poor can't afford it), Agrarianism down (no wheat anymore), Retail up, Obesity slashed, Death by Cardiac Arrest down, Corruption up (anyone that deliberately starves people for a diet craze is corrupt), Health up (among those who survive), Shortened Lifespans up (death to starvation)
[option]"Forced labeling? Bans on wheat and basic ingredients? All of you are just stupid entitled Socialists!" spits 'captain of industry', @@RANDOMNAME@@, as he pours himself bourbon and champagne into the same glass. "No one has a right to intervene in the market! If people want gluten and caisen free products, they can shop at places that sell them, or organize boycotts against companies until they change their ways. I swear, people are so entitled these days. Let's just let the Invisible Hand sort this out, okay?"
[effect]the government has renewed its commitment to lazieze-fair capitalism in food products
[stats]Economic Freedoms up, Free-Market up, Rightism up, Agriculture up, Civil Rights down (if you consider "consumer rights" to be inalienable)
[option]"I think all of you need to focus on the source of malnutrition and allergen risks in our youth." pontificates @@RANDOMNAME@@, health advocate chairman of the Let's Engage In Kinetic Motion Trust, as she dines on some fried chicken. Wiping some sauce off her large face, she continues. "Every school, public and private, serves lunch to kids, right? So if we simply change school lunches to meet healthy standards for the peasan- uhh, young citizens, then we can take care of all that right then and there. Of course, there's the risk of kids not eating the health foods, and sure, athletes will malnourish themselves from the lack of carbs, but that's the cost of keeping your serfs in line."
[effect]portraits of trash cans laden with meager, unappetizing school lunches, with the caption "THANKS @@LEADER@@", plaster the walls of schoolhouses
[stats]Education up (costs a bomb to get that food), Obesity slashed, Happiness down (POSSIBLE: Culture down, because it eliminates any treasured recipes for veggies and slop. POSSIBLE: Youth Rebelliousness up, because children bitterly trash their "healthy" foods and turn to Twinkies and Coke. POSSIBLE: Ever so slight Death by Malnourishment up, to account for athletes and poor people who may not get enough nutrition from the meal to survive after school.)
