Draft 2: Removed the part in the premise about software updates (since it was distracting from the rest of the issue).
Draft 3: Boiled the issue down to its basic concept. I'll be revising it again in the near future.
Steering the Industry
Validity: Must have cars and a market economy.
Description
Upstart car company Flemming Motors has been gobbling up large amounts of market share recently due to their innovative and diverse product line that directly outcompetes many established brands. Feeling their position threatened, the nation's largest automobile manufacturers have joined forces to try and pressure you into taking action.
Option 1
"@@LEADER@@, you can't listen to these big firms!" pleads the surprisingly nimble Dare Flemming, CEO of Flemming Motors, after dropping out of an air vent in your office. "We've had to fight tooth and nail just to survive in the face of these companies and their utter stranglehold. You need to provide financial incentives for smaller manufacturers like us to enter the market and push the industry forward. Relax some of those pesky product safety laws too, while you're at it."
Effect: the nation's cars are as varied as the colors of their engine fires
Option 2
"Did someone say 'big companies'?" asks @@RANDOMNAME@@, spokesperson for a group of car company representatives who bribed their way into your office and are now trying to muscle Mr. Flemming out of the room. "Some might say we're dinosaurs that crush innovation. I say we offer stability for consumers, employment numbers, and your government. Subsidize large established operations such as ours, and neither our bottom line nor your personal accounts will ever be threatened again."
Effect: @@DEMONYMPLURAL@@ contently drive gas-guzzling and ugly cars because that's the way it's always been
Option 3
"I'm a poor private corporation, please give me money," mocks Bigtopian expat @@RANDOMNAME@@, juggling flaming Bolotov cocktails right inside your office. "All these crooked companies have ever done is fight among each other and soak up government funding to the detriment of all. Nationalize the automobile industry, and your people will never stop thanking you for serving them first and foremost. The government always knows what's best, after all."
Effect: the government has seized the means of locomotion