A politician in @@NAME@@ is encouraging the electorate not to complete the national census form, claiming that the process has become too intrusive.
Validity: only for democracies.
1. "This is an outrage!" rails @@RANDOMNAME@@, doodling in the margins of the census form. "Can we really trust @@LEADER@@ to know the details of where we live? I have no intention of entrusting the government with my demographic profile, and I should hope that my constituents don't either."
residents of paranoid regions are undercounted in the national census
political apathy up, civil rights up slightly, corruption up
2. "Nonsense!" says policy wonk @@RANDOMNAME@@, dotting the i's and crossing the t's of an essay question. "Without accurate census data, how will we know which areas of the country to target with our...welfare programs? We need to have authority to make sure everyone is filling out the census, no matter how far we have to go to shake them down."
police have the authority to detain citizens for not responding to "government inquiries"
law and order up, administration up, government size up, intelligence up, taxation up, primitiveness down, authoritarianism up
3. "Do we really need a national census anyway?" yawns @@RANDOMNAME@@, who is using the form as a paper airplane. "It's a lot of trouble for nothing, if you ask me. If the government wants to know where I live, @@LEADER@@ can add me on MyFace like everybody else."
the country's population is reported with margins of error of several billion
taxes down, administration down, government size down, primitiveness up, apathy up
4. "I'm sure me and the gang can trim that down for you, for the right price," promises @@RANDOMNAME@@, wielding a sharp pair of scissors. "A slice here, a slice there, and we can edit that form down into something so short, nobody will object to answering it. Even the real terrors with something to hide, like politicians."
the government's new "inquisitorial staff" promises a leaner, meaner census
taxes up, administration slightly down
5. "Yee-haw, pardners," croons country music star @@RANDOMNAME@@. "I'm sure these fine folks would just be gosh-durned happy to fill out a ticky box or two, once they were in the right mood. Advertise the glories of checking boxes, and you'll have them lining up to mail in their data in no time! Now ain't that a peach."
the airwaves are full of pop stars crooning about the joys of census-taking
taxes up, government size up, cheerfulness up, culture up
Based on Michelle Bachmann's protests against the census in 2010. (I know there's at least one issue about devolution so it could be potentially targeted at nations that have specific regions and it would be more local constituents that are protesting, but that feels unnecessary.) I didn't know about the country music advertising until just now, but I guess life is stranger than art, because that sounds like an actual "bizarre freaky NS compromise issue option"
We probably don't need both options 4 and 5, mostly just here as a bonus. I guess these options are kind of on the terse side, but it's a start.