Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 1:53 am
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@Option 3 is for socialist nations and 4 is for capitalist ones.
The Issue
A palace guard had to torture one of your most trusted aides today after hearing him murmur to another advisor that the WA has classified your beloved nation as a psychotic dictatorship. After your brother related the torture in gory detail during a family dinner, the topic of how to improve your image with the WA has come up.
The Debate
1. "Let the people have a bit of political freedom," announces your nephew, whose authoritarianism is tempered only by his strange love for democracy. "The people love you and your tough but fair demeanor! Get the rubber stamp of a democratically free vote and you'll get to keep the populace in check - and maybe the WA will back off with their 'psychotic' talk."
2. "The only freedom @@NAME@@ needs is freedom on the entrepreneurial front," proposes @@RANDOMNAME@@, a shady Eckie-Ecola executive known for @@HIS/HER@@ iron-fisted consumerism, who is currently serving Eckie-Ecolas to your family. "You should focus on promoting big multinational businesses in @@NAME@@ and slashing the regulation on them. Think about the economic growth that'd come from it, all while you retain your power and keep the populace from running rampant. With a freer economy I'm sure the World Assembly will be open to considering @@NAME@@ in a different light."
3. "We can't let fickle democratic will run the government or multinationals run the economy, but we should let people run themselves," suggests your father, who always seems to know what's best for you. "As long as they aren't challenging your power, they should be allowed to go wherever they want, do whatever they want, buy whatever they want, heck, even start their own private businesses. Enough so the World Assembly might reconsider, anyway."
4. "We can't let fickle democratic will run the government or multinationals run the economy, but we should let people run themselves," suggests your father, who always seems to know what's best for you. "As long as they aren't challenging your power, they should be allowed to go wherever they want, do whatever they want, buy whatever they want, heck, even make it easy for them to start their own businesses. Enough so the World Assembly might reconsider, anyway."
5. "Don't listen to those anarchists from the World Assembly," comments your sister, while simultaneously offering her after-dinner cake to the butler that served it to her. "Just because they can't see that you're helping your citizens by giving them structure does not mean that you're doing anything wrong. You should instead denounce the World Assembly and tell your people you're only doing what's right. Perhaps you can prove this by bumping the health care and welfare systems a bit?"
6. "MWWHAHAHA!" maniacally laughs your brother, who is covered in @@ANIMAL@@ blood for some reason. "They want to see psychotic? We'll show them psychotic! Rain down oppression and mayhem on all of your little playthings! Well, except for your family, of course."
Issue by Jutsa
Edited by Ransium
Autocracy is not a prerequisite for the issue and does not change option 1. In fact, I got it three issues after reinstating elections, after I had accidentally banned them on my Psychotic Dictatorship (this wasn't enough to lose the classification), though I didn't answer it immediately but rather banked it until I could bring back capitalism to test option 3/4.