[title]Flip the Script
[validity]has free press, has computers
[description]After an untimely series of teleprompter malfunctions and verbal blunders in the largest national speech of the year, such as your Minister of Defense claiming to want to thwart the nefarious plans of one of @@NAME@@'s greatest allies, your Secretary standing in silence for 30 seconds staring at the IT technician waiting for them to notice the empty screen, and your Minister of Plastic Regulation uttering "sigh," "clears throat," and "breathes in," the media soaked the speech up and has started making fun of the government. The hashtag #AhhheoughughghghghhemThe@@ANIMALPLURAL@@AreDying trended on Twitcher the week following the speech and a common joke throughout the nation is to stare at IT people. An emergency meeting has been called to ensure that this never happens again.
[option1]"@@LEADER@@!" Your Secretary pulls you closer, far more threateningly than the night before. "Fire that IT technician and guarantee that all government teleprompters have constant power!" they holler, flecking spittle on your cheek in the process - a sure sign that they haven't cleared their throat in a while. "All of my friends and family members are taunting me! They call me 'the Lizard' now! What happened during that address must be fixed immediately. Someone also needs to wake up these geezers running our Ministries and make sure they're not just on autopilot during their speech, reading it all literally."
[effect1] teleprompters instruct engineers building the three-story-high batteries used to power government teleprompters
[option2a]"Why even have these ridiculous teleprompters in the first place?" roars your Minister of Defense. "Back in my day, politicians were honest and didn't need fake cues and scripts! We don't need these devices and whatnot getting in the way! Politicians need to have heart when they make a speech, and teleprompters aren't helping! For Violet's sake, that teleprompter had me attacking a nation in our sphere! Not those two-faced failed-state pinko commies..." They trail off.
[effect2a] the new heart requirement for talking has left regional finance heads across the nation speechless
[validity]capitalist
[option2b]"Why even have these ridiculous teleprompters in the first place?" roars your Minister of Defense. "Back in my day, politicians were honest and didn't need fake cues and scripts! We don't need these devices and whatnot getting in the way! Politicians need to have heart when they make a speech, and teleprompters aren't helping! For Violet's sake, that teleprompter had me attacking a nation in our sphere! Not those two-faced capitalist pig-dogs..." They trail off.
[effect2b] the new heart requirement for talking has left financial planning committee chairs across the nation speechless
[validity]socialist
[option3]"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then forget thine lines!" cries your melodramatic Minister of the Arts, with one hand on their knee and one on their chest. "It is embarrassing that you all recycle the same phrases in every one of your speeches yet none of you can remember them! Mandate that government officials who are chosen to speak must be provably off-book before they speak. Now, if that requires my Ministry to help out, then I don't think a budget increase for the arts is out of the question."
[effect3] all the nation's a political playground
