Description: It’s a normal day in @@NAME@@. The beeping of an alarm clock wakes you up, and you realize that you must have fallen asleep at your desk after a busy night of working. You wait for the usual barrage of politicians, ministers, grassroots protesters, and the pizza delivery guy, and resign yourself to your fate of answering menial issues until the end of your reign...but nobody came. No one's around. You get up and walk to the window, newly-reinforced after a few people busted through. Outside, there's no one. You wander around wondering what to do.
[option] When walking into the staff lounge, where you expect to chastise your aides for playing a mean trick on you, you see a note plastered haphazardly to the coffee machine. "OUT OF ORDER," it reads. You push the button anyway, and it whirs and emits smoke and eventually shuts off. A note was left on the table, which reads, "Can’t replace the coffee machine until @@LEADER@@ starts caring about workers’ rights and raising our wages. Or giving us some of that tax money. Secret union meeting in the East @@ANIMAL@@ Room."
[effect]@@LEADER@@ has joined a strike against the @@DENONYMADJECTIVE@@ government protesting for better living conditions and compensation for @@HIS@@ hard work
[option] When perusing through the almost claustrophobic hallways reminiscing about the crowds usually jammed here, you pass the vending machine, usually stocked with the best of @@DENONYMADJECTIVE@@ sweets. However, another “OUT OF ORDER” note is posted on the machine, emblazoned with a dire warning. You take a few @@CURRENCY@@ out of your pocket and insert it in, but it makes strange whispering voices and belches an acrid puff of smoke. You suddenly recall, with horror, that the Minister of Health had stuffed the vending machine with low-fat, nutrient-rich protein bars as part of the new government-recommended diet.
[effect]schoolchildren bite into protein bars bearing @@LEADER@@’s likeness and promptly spit them back out
[option]You decide to collect your thoughts and get some fresh air, but when going out the door, you see that only the garden right outside of your office underneath your window was green, while the rest is overgrown and a ghastly, mottled shade of orange. You imagine what your Minister of Environment would say. "@@LEADER@@, you have to take care of the green spaces of your country!" @@HE@@ would say, evidently frustrated. A blueish hose was left on the ground, snaking across the dying grass, the faucet not far away. It calls to you, but a note reading “OUT OF ORDER” is stuck onto the faucet. Turning it, the top breaks off in your hand, and the water squirts everywhere, leaving you soaked. Smoke is also somehow rising from the remains of the faucet.
[effect]@@LEADER@@'s house is constantly portrayed on @@DENONYMADJECTIVE@@ Gardeners' Monthly
[option]Soaking wet, you sulk back to your office, passing by empty room after empty room. Walking around with no one talking to you has made you somewhat tired, and it’s possible that you are hallucinating. You sit down at your chair, in that familiar position you have every day, where people lined up at your desk, protesters and reporters outside the building, and you almost start to see your staff, looking worriedly at you, but when you look back, they're gone. Eyes heavy, you suddenly notice a piece of paper on your desk that you're sure wasn't there when you started this morning. It reads, "You thought that all the issues were just repeating themselves back, and forth, and back, and forth again. But there is always a time when there is no issue, when you have a momentary sense of peace." The note crumples itself and catches in flames, vanishing into smoke. The smoke detector goes off and you realize that it sounds just like your alarm clock.
[effect]@@LEADER@@ regularly schedules @@HIS@@ nap times for six hours in between each pressing national issue
Good premise!
