This is based on the concept of innovation, and hiring creative thinkers to come up with new inventions for the nation.
Note: This is for communists and there is no reversal option.
Idk if this exactly works, and the title I was never sure on, but hopefully it'll be good with a little bit of work.
Draft 2.00
Title: Red Like a Book
The Issue: Due to the state-run market in @@NAME@@, innovation has become a rarity. With what few recent technological innovations existing having been borrowed from the capitalist United Federation, you've arranged a meeting to discuss ways to keep up with the anti-socialist nations.
Validity: Must not have private industry; Must not have very high scientific advancement
Option 1: "The current state of things are not very good, comrade," informs your military-strategist Minister of Creative Solutions, currently frazzled from designing a toaster with an off switch. "We need to pay for inventors and innovators to come together and solve tasks you assign them. Though there won't be much money in the project, it'd improve quality of life and help the manufacturers make things cheaper in the long haul. It'd also make my life a lot easier."
[effect] the struggle to afford the latest toasters has made toast a rarity
Option 2: "Why do that when you could rely on the kindness of volunteers?" asks @@RANDOMNAME@@, a @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ worker allowed in the meeting because everyone is equal. "People will love to give you their help if you ask for it. I'd have shared with you my design for a camera disguised as a telescope if you did. Put together a department to review the working man's ideas, and we may even get some decent military designs made!"
[effect] pink tanks that shoot bubbles is the latest in cutting-edge military technology
Option 3: "You people rely too much on sympathy," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, a capitalist revolutionary who's been secretly trading hamsters for the velcro @@HE@@ sells. "If you want to get people interested, then start public competitions for the best inventions, and whoever wins gets a prize. It's cost-effective, it's efficient, and it only sorta resembles capitalism... which isn't such a bad thing, you know."
[effect] being better than your equals makes you equally more rich
Option 4: "Why do we need all this fancy-pancy new stuff?" inquires old-man Ovie, holding what appears to be a good, old-fashioned rope. "Wasting money on ideas is a bad thing. Hard work: that's how things get done. Pay nothing for creativity; just give us what we need to live in the world." The rope he attempts to use snaps, and he falls to the floor in agony.
[effect] grey people in grey houses eat grey bowls of grey soup with grey spoons
