While I appreciate it's not great form to have to issue drafts on the forum at the same time, I won't have access to NS for a bit and would like criticism to accrue over that period.
Anyhoo...
Name: "Tourism Tanking!" tells tabloids
Description: Following an public safety disaster of unimaginable magnitude - so extreme that members of your government only mention it in hushed voices, and only then in the vaguest of terms - @@NAME@@'s tourism industry has hit the rocks. Commentators from all walks of your life have come to your office to offer their opinion on what they obviously feel is a crucial issue.
Validity: Valid for all nations with some form of tourism industry.
[option] "The government has to step in and do something, for once!" states tour operator, @@RANDOMNAME@@, visibly pulling their hair out, "If we'd had proper rails on the marina, that shark would never have gotten into the reactor in the first place! The government has to put better regulations in place to make sure disasters of this kind never happen again - and if we want to coax back the tourists we've lost, the taxpayer's going to have to be prepared to shell out for a whole bunch of new state-subsidised hotels, parks and tourist attractions. Shark-proof ones. Our economy will never survive without it!"
[effect] a new generation of aquariumless hotels are being built on @@NAME@@'s beaches under government supervision
[stats] taxes rise, commerce spending rises, infrastructure and environmental spending rise slightly, environmental quality rises, economy contracts slightly, tourism industry grows, most avoided falls, safest rises, economic freedoms fall slightly, corruption rises very slightly
[option] "Why waste more money?" grumbles middle-aged industrialist, @@RANDOMNAME@@, chomping on a fat cigar, "Look. I'm as sorry as the next schmuck for those poor noseless meteorologists. But we've got to realise that tourism is just not @@NAME@@'s strong suit; and that's not going to change, no matter how many wallets we throw at the problem. Hell, if the government really wanted to do something to fix our economy, it'd be to give everyone a healthy tax-cut and get rid of some of that environmental legislation - set up for the benefit of a bunch of tree-hugging foreigners, I might add - that stops me ever doing anything useful with my factories."
[effect] tourists visiting @@NAME@@ weep as forests are ploughed down and dug up for raw materials
[stats] taxes fall, environmental spending falls, economy grows, tourism industry is almost destroyed, but uranium mining and woodchipping industries grow, environmental quality falls drastically, most avoided rises slightly, economic freedoms rise
[option] "I thin' I've got another solution to this problem," says shady government advisor, @@RANDOMNAME@@, lazing by the pool of one of @@NAME@@'s classiest hotels, "Now, we're not goin' to be able to hide the fact that @@CAPITAL@@ is now covered in pink icing, but...what if the inspectors an' tour guides an' all those types of folks just didn't notice all that mess? After all, we don't have the money to clear it all up, but I think we do have just about enough to dangle a few @@CURRENCY@@s in front of anyone who wants to give our nation a good review. After all, a few firm golden handshakes never hurt no-one."
[effect] @@NAME@@ seems to have no redeeming features bar the swathe of suspiciously positive tourist reports written about the country
[stats] taxes rise slightly, corruption rises, tourism industry grows slightly, most avoided falls slightly, economy grows slightly
