Republics of the World [SEMI-OPEN] Discussion Thread

[The Jonathanian States]

The senate is going down the drain, I say.
Senators post bills with the same effects as already debated bills,senators don't read who wrote the bills and attack the wrong person.....

It's not going down the drain. It's simply going stagnant since we don't have much organization in voting.

On the go publishing the location of the voters, how nice.

[The New World Oceania]

It's not going down the drain. It's simply going stagnant since we don't have much organization in voting.

On the go publishing the location of the voters, how nice.

Inadvertently our names, if you caught that link.

[The Jonathanian States]

On the go publishing the location of the voters, how nice.

Inadvertently our names, if you caught that link.

I didn't see any names....
Locations, but no names......

[The New World Oceania]

Inadvertently our names, if you caught that link.

I didn't see any names....
Locations, but no names......

Comments, on the last page.

[The Jonathanian States]

I didn't see any names....
Locations, but no names......

Comments, on the last page.

I see a blank space.
Due to me not having voted?

[Imperium Nova]

President of the Senate, or President as in Head of State? Otherwise I believe we really should make a constitution. Outlining how we go about forming government, electing speakers, electing president, etc.

The Prime Minister is the Senate President, but it is purely ceremonial and he only ecersises that power if theres no PpT

The President pro Tempore is the real leader of the senate

Is this stated in the constitution, and if so, where is our constitution?

[The New Lowlands]

I don't think we have a constitution.

*begins drafting*

[The Jonathanian States]

I don't think we have a constitution.

*begins drafting*

Not so fast, the act has not passed yet (I think) - though I voted in its favor.

[Imperium Nova]

I don't think we have a constitution.

*begins drafting*

Not so fast, the act has not passed yet (I think) - though I voted in its favor.

Which act?

[The New Lowlands]

Not so fast, the act has not passed yet (I think) - though I voted in its favor.

Which act?

L107.

[Imperium Nova]

Which act?

L107.

What was that act now again? I would suggest putting a link to every act on the summary, so they are easily findable.

[The Jonathanian States]

L107.

What was that act now again? I would suggest putting a link to every act on the summary, so they are easily findable.

Constitution Creation Act - or something of that kind.


Regardless - Tiberium,
A)AFAIK two weeks =/= 4 years. OOC and IC respectively
B) That is kinda against our core issues, to instate a monarch, the senate probably more likely accepted an Head of State Monarch than a Head of Goverment one...... ^{Not that they really have a choice.....}

[Tiberium Imperium]

What was that act now again? I would suggest putting a link to every act on the summary, so they are easily findable.

Constitution Creation Act - or something of that kind.


Regardless - Tiberium,
A)AFAIK two weeks =/= 4 years. OOC and IC respectively
B) That is kinda against our core issues, to instate a monarch, the senate probably more likely accepted an Head of State Monarch than a Head of Goverment one...... ^{Not that they really have a choice.....}

There is an article that says the title may be changed with the approval of the Senate.

[Winovia]

Wouldn't the senior official in the government be the Head of Government?

[Tiberium Imperium]

Wouldn't the senior official in the government be the Head of Government?

No that would be the Head of State, that is how it works it almost every country.

[The Jonathanian States]

Constitution Creation Act - or something of that kind.


Regardless - Tiberium,
A)AFAIK two weeks =/= 4 years. OOC and IC respectively
B) That is kinda against our core issues, to instate a monarch, the senate probably more likely accepted an Head of State Monarch than a Head of Goverment one...... ^{Not that they really have a choice.....}

There is an article that says the title may be changed with the approval of the Senate.

But a Monarch also would be hereditary.
You include election there.

[Tiberium Imperium]

There is an article that says the title may be changed with the approval of the Senate.

But a Monarch also would be hereditary.
You include election there.

I honestly think that an elective monarchy would be more practical.

[Imperium Nova]

There is an article that says the title may be changed with the approval of the Senate.

But a Monarch also would be hereditary.
You include election there.

Laws can be changed. They are also not any "large" laws or something like that, which we might have. Those would need to have an election in between changes so that a party can't turn the country upside down. Sort of basic laws. Like the constitution.

[Imperium Nova]

But a Monarch also would be hereditary.
You include election there.

I honestly think that an elective monarchy would be more practical.

But what glamour does an elective monarchy have? I mean, we would have no princes and princesses, no crown princes, no nothing. Also we would need some large base of aristocrats and nobles for that. At least that is how it was before.

[Holy Trek]

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Republics of the World

GENERAL
Corburn Trends, Informative and Comprehensive Graphical Spreadsheet

Discussions Thread, General OOC
Corburn City, General IC
Senate Chamber, Senators IC

CONSERVATIVES
Conservative Party HQ, Conservative OOC
The Cheedingam Club, Conservative IC

SOCIALISTS
Socialist Party HQ, Socialist IC
King's Head Pub, Socialist OOC

MONARCHISTS
Monachist Party HQ, Monarchist IC-OOC

Roster
Kubrath - Kaloyan Strashev, Journalist, Politics and Science CONFIRMED
Towson - Mohammed Li, Senator, Conservative Party
Britanno - James Brit, Senator, Conservative Party CONFIRMED
Alouite - Conner Normandy, Senator, Socialist Party
Vairikai Sari - Colin O'Brien, Senator, Conservative Party (Minister of Health)
Calces Millia - Alphonse "Al" Magnus, CEO, Recentia Cola AND David A. Giorgetti, Journalist, Economics and Criminal CONFIRMED
Prospect Landings - Joseph Turning, Senator, Socialist Party CONFIRMED
Kinitaria - Mark Ellison, Senator, Socialist Party CONFIRMED
The Jonathanian States - Jonathan of Kohr-Corburn, Senator, Monarchist Party CONFIRMED
Indo-pasif archipelago - Dean Mckintosh, Senator, Conservative Party AND Hawking Peterson, CEO, East Spice Company CONFIRMED
Mizrah - Ari Farah, CEO, Farah Bank CONFIRMED
Alexius - Roman Vellar, CEO, CorburnAir CONFIRMED
Jamessonia - James Fergus, Senator, Conservative Party CONFIRMED

---

(The I-promised-you-this-day-would-come-Alouite-two-months-late Edition)

Republics of the World, the RP-heavy, detail-extensive supermassive game anyone "who likes nation simulation games would love", is back as ROW v2.0 with plenty of big fixes, economic mishaps corrections and exciting new features.

For those of you to whom ROW is an unknown mystery: ROW is, ultimately, a very big spreadsheet, on which hundreds of thousands of calculations are made for each trigger pulled by RPers. ROW resembles NSG Senate closely, except what NSG lacks ROW has an over abundance of it. Players take the roles of members of parliament in a fictitious, virtual, anarchic nation. Players write and pass bills in the nation's legislative house which have effects on various national statistics-- a larger, more zealous police force would tackle crime, and green energy subsidies would clean the nation's air.

There are over 800 different ways to affect the country, along with over 60 default bills to pass. By default, I mean that these bills were preregistered into the spreadsheet, and user-created bills with certain, more specific effects will be added as the game progresses. Statistics range from the literacy rate to the Human Development Index to the price of a barrel of petrol.

New Ways To Play
As opposed to v1.0's playing style, where two occupations were separately available, v2.0 presents four ways to play at the same time. In v1.0 we had Senator, the politician bill-passing necessary protagonist, and the Journalist, who printed out the most recent happenings. Now, v2.0 allows the availability of the Chief Executive (CEO) role, where the player role-plays as the CEO of one of the nation's largest firms, and the Citizen, where the player role-plays any virtual citizen of the country and writes about life in the country. The player may choose to only play as one of these characters, two, three or even the whole lot of them!

v2.0 will also not be played on external forums, because that, in retrospect, killed the version. v2.0 will be played in P2TM the same way NSG Senate is played in Forum 7. There will be this Sign Up + Discussion thread (alles), a Legislative thread (Senators), News thread (Journalists), Business thread (CEOs) and a Citizen thread (Citizens). It's pretty straightforward.

v2.0 gets rid of the Gini coefficient, because that barely worked, and replaces it with a snazzy HDI module, which rather annoyingly takes up more space than just the one cell I would have preferred. Oh, and GDP per capita isn't messed up anymore (shh, no one actually knew about that).

v2.0 has a new time/calendar system, where every day is equal to one in-game month with the exception of Sunday. So Monday January, Tuesday February, Wednesday March, Thursday April, Friday May, Saturday June, Sunday we take some time off, Monday July, all the way to Saturday December. Every two weeks is a year, every Sunday I print out the semester's numerical happenings and every two months is a new election.

If you've made it this far, or alternatively if you're gasping for a TL;DR, then do check out the old June ROW signup thread, and from there the even older interest thread.

OK re-reading this I get the impression that the game is unplayably solemn and dull. It's not. If you take part in NSG Senate or enjoy role-playing senators, journalists, businessmen-- just people in general (or both), then ROW will amaze you. Here, I'll even underline this so it gets your attention. And in a box.

ANY QUESTIONS YO? YOU MUST HAVE MILLIONS. ASK THEM ALL BECAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE I COVERED 1% OF THE INFO YOU NEED SO FAR.

Oh, woops, almost forgot the applications.

Please note that ROW is based in a universe of its own, so please do not relate your characters to your NationStates nation. Thank you.

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[b]NAME OF CHARACTERS[/b] (Realistic names only, please):
• John Smith, Senator
• John Smith, Journalist
• John Smith, CEO
• John Smith, Citizen
[i]Please select a name for your desired character(s) without forgetting a comma and their class[/i]

[b]YOUR CHARACTER'S DESIRED JOBS[/b]:
[b][u]Senator[/u] Which political party will you be affiliated with?[/b]:
[b][u]Senator[/u] Will you like a place in the first Government?[/b]:
[b][u]Journalist[/u] What will your character like to write about?[/b]:
[b][u]CEO[/u] What is the name of the company you wish to own?
[u]All[/u] Tell us a bit about yourselves ...[/b]

POLITICAL PARTIES:[/td]

NAME	ECONOMIC ORIENTATION	SOCIAL ORIENTATION
Libertarian Party (LP)	Centre-Right	Libertarian
Socialist Party (SP)	Left	Libertarian
Conservative Party (CP)	Right	Authoritarian
Imperialist Party	Centre-Left	Libertarian

JOURNALISTS IN NEWSPAPERS:

• Editor-in-Chief Writes the Editorial/Leaders
• Economics Correspondent Writes all things related to the economy
• Social Matters Correspondent Writes all things to do with voters and their habits
• Political Correspondent Writes about happenings in the Senate and has interviews with Senators
• Markets Correspondent Writes about all business-related news
• Other Writes about anything else.

This list is essentially the same for all newspapers, except for "Other" and beyond, which can offer different titles and responsibilities. However, at least 3 positions must be filled for the paper to stay.

uhm no need for a sample app, right? maybe some of these to put you in the mood

[...] You have created my favourite online game. Honestly, you should make a living out of RoW

It is even better than NS are you kidding, EVERONE who likes nation simulation games would love it!

Max Barry has a rival.

Have fun guys

cheers and hugs and many kisses

Ark

Yea....I have a question......what is this again.......exactly?

[Imperium Nova]

(Image)
Republics of the World

GENERAL
Corburn Trends, Informative and Comprehensive Graphical Spreadsheet

Discussions Thread, General OOC
Corburn City, General IC
Senate Chamber, Senators IC

CONSERVATIVES
Conservative Party HQ, Conservative OOC
The Cheedingam Club, Conservative IC

SOCIALISTS
Socialist Party HQ, Socialist IC
King's Head Pub, Socialist OOC

MONARCHISTS
Monachist Party HQ, Monarchist IC-OOC

Roster
Kubrath - Kaloyan Strashev, Journalist, Politics and Science CONFIRMED
Towson - Mohammed Li, Senator, Conservative Party
Britanno - James Brit, Senator, Conservative Party CONFIRMED
Alouite - Conner Normandy, Senator, Socialist Party
Vairikai Sari - Colin O'Brien, Senator, Conservative Party (Minister of Health)
Calces Millia - Alphonse "Al" Magnus, CEO, Recentia Cola AND David A. Giorgetti, Journalist, Economics and Criminal CONFIRMED
Prospect Landings - Joseph Turning, Senator, Socialist Party CONFIRMED
Kinitaria - Mark Ellison, Senator, Socialist Party CONFIRMED
The Jonathanian States - Jonathan of Kohr-Corburn, Senator, Monarchist Party CONFIRMED
Indo-pasif archipelago - Dean Mckintosh, Senator, Conservative Party AND Hawking Peterson, CEO, East Spice Company CONFIRMED
Mizrah - Ari Farah, CEO, Farah Bank CONFIRMED
Alexius - Roman Vellar, CEO, CorburnAir CONFIRMED
Jamessonia - James Fergus, Senator, Conservative Party CONFIRMED

---

(The I-promised-you-this-day-would-come-Alouite-two-months-late Edition)

Republics of the World, the RP-heavy, detail-extensive supermassive game anyone "who likes nation simulation games would love", is back as ROW v2.0 with plenty of big fixes, economic mishaps corrections and exciting new features.

For those of you to whom ROW is an unknown mystery: ROW is, ultimately, a very big spreadsheet, on which hundreds of thousands of calculations are made for each trigger pulled by RPers. ROW resembles NSG Senate closely, except what NSG lacks ROW has an over abundance of it. Players take the roles of members of parliament in a fictitious, virtual, anarchic nation. Players write and pass bills in the nation's legislative house which have effects on various national statistics-- a larger, more zealous police force would tackle crime, and green energy subsidies would clean the nation's air.

There are over 800 different ways to affect the country, along with over 60 default bills to pass. By default, I mean that these bills were preregistered into the spreadsheet, and user-created bills with certain, more specific effects will be added as the game progresses. Statistics range from the literacy rate to the Human Development Index to the price of a barrel of petrol.

New Ways To Play
As opposed to v1.0's playing style, where two occupations were separately available, v2.0 presents four ways to play at the same time. In v1.0 we had Senator, the politician bill-passing necessary protagonist, and the Journalist, who printed out the most recent happenings. Now, v2.0 allows the availability of the Chief Executive (CEO) role, where the player role-plays as the CEO of one of the nation's largest firms, and the Citizen, where the player role-plays any virtual citizen of the country and writes about life in the country. The player may choose to only play as one of these characters, two, three or even the whole lot of them!

v2.0 will also not be played on external forums, because that, in retrospect, killed the version. v2.0 will be played in P2TM the same way NSG Senate is played in Forum 7. There will be this Sign Up + Discussion thread (alles), a Legislative thread (Senators), News thread (Journalists), Business thread (CEOs) and a Citizen thread (Citizens). It's pretty straightforward.

v2.0 gets rid of the Gini coefficient, because that barely worked, and replaces it with a snazzy HDI module, which rather annoyingly takes up more space than just the one cell I would have preferred. Oh, and GDP per capita isn't messed up anymore (shh, no one actually knew about that).

v2.0 has a new time/calendar system, where every day is equal to one in-game month with the exception of Sunday. So Monday January, Tuesday February, Wednesday March, Thursday April, Friday May, Saturday June, Sunday we take some time off, Monday July, all the way to Saturday December. Every two weeks is a year, every Sunday I print out the semester's numerical happenings and every two months is a new election.

If you've made it this far, or alternatively if you're gasping for a TL;DR, then do check out the old June ROW signup thread, and from there the even older interest thread.

OK re-reading this I get the impression that the game is unplayably solemn and dull. It's not. If you take part in NSG Senate or enjoy role-playing senators, journalists, businessmen-- just people in general (or both), then ROW will amaze you. Here, I'll even underline this so it gets your attention. And in a box.

ANY QUESTIONS YO? YOU MUST HAVE MILLIONS. ASK THEM ALL BECAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE I COVERED 1% OF THE INFO YOU NEED SO FAR.

Oh, woops, almost forgot the applications.

Please note that ROW is based in a universe of its own, so please do not relate your characters to your NationStates nation. Thank you.

Code: Select all

[b]NAME OF CHARACTERS[/b] (Realistic names only, please):
• John Smith, Senator
• John Smith, Journalist
• John Smith, CEO
• John Smith, Citizen
[i]Please select a name for your desired character(s) without forgetting a comma and their class[/i]

[b]YOUR CHARACTER'S DESIRED JOBS[/b]:
[b][u]Senator[/u] Which political party will you be affiliated with?[/b]:
[b][u]Senator[/u] Will you like a place in the first Government?[/b]:
[b][u]Journalist[/u] What will your character like to write about?[/b]:
[b][u]CEO[/u] What is the name of the company you wish to own?
[u]All[/u] Tell us a bit about yourselves ...[/b]

POLITICAL PARTIES:[/td]

NAME	ECONOMIC ORIENTATION	SOCIAL ORIENTATION
Libertarian Party (LP)	Centre-Right	Libertarian
Socialist Party (SP)	Left	Libertarian
Conservative Party (CP)	Right	Authoritarian
Imperialist Party	Centre-Left	Libertarian

JOURNALISTS IN NEWSPAPERS:

• Editor-in-Chief Writes the Editorial/Leaders
• Economics Correspondent Writes all things related to the economy
• Social Matters Correspondent Writes all things to do with voters and their habits
• Political Correspondent Writes about happenings in the Senate and has interviews with Senators
• Markets Correspondent Writes about all business-related news
• Other Writes about anything else.

This list is essentially the same for all newspapers, except for "Other" and beyond, which can offer different titles and responsibilities. However, at least 3 positions must be filled for the paper to stay.

uhm no need for a sample app, right? maybe some of these to put you in the mood

Have fun guys

cheers and hugs and many kisses

Ark

Yea....I have a question......what is this again.......exactly?

Umh... Yeah...

[The New Lowlands]

Yea....I have a question......what is this again.......exactly?

Umh... Yeah...

It's running a country.

[The Jonathanian States]

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Republics of the World

GENERAL
Corburn Trends, Informative and Comprehensive Graphical Spreadsheet

Discussions Thread, General OOC
Corburn City, General IC
Senate Chamber, Senators IC

CONSERVATIVES
Conservative Party HQ, Conservative OOC
The Cheedingam Club, Conservative IC

SOCIALISTS
Socialist Party HQ, Socialist IC
King's Head Pub, Socialist OOC

MONARCHISTS
Monachist Party HQ, Monarchist IC-OOC

Roster
Kubrath - Kaloyan Strashev, Journalist, Politics and Science CONFIRMED
Towson - Mohammed Li, Senator, Conservative Party
Britanno - James Brit, Senator, Conservative Party CONFIRMED
Alouite - Conner Normandy, Senator, Socialist Party
Vairikai Sari - Colin O'Brien, Senator, Conservative Party (Minister of Health)
Calces Millia - Alphonse "Al" Magnus, CEO, Recentia Cola AND David A. Giorgetti, Journalist, Economics and Criminal CONFIRMED
Prospect Landings - Joseph Turning, Senator, Socialist Party CONFIRMED
Kinitaria - Mark Ellison, Senator, Socialist Party CONFIRMED
The Jonathanian States - Jonathan of Kohr-Corburn, Senator, Monarchist Party CONFIRMED
Indo-pasif archipelago - Dean Mckintosh, Senator, Conservative Party AND Hawking Peterson, CEO, East Spice Company CONFIRMED
Mizrah - Ari Farah, CEO, Farah Bank CONFIRMED
Alexius - Roman Vellar, CEO, CorburnAir CONFIRMED
Jamessonia - James Fergus, Senator, Conservative Party CONFIRMED

---

(The I-promised-you-this-day-would-come-Alouite-two-months-late Edition)

Republics of the World, the RP-heavy, detail-extensive supermassive game anyone "who likes nation simulation games would love", is back as ROW v2.0 with plenty of big fixes, economic mishaps corrections and exciting new features.

For those of you to whom ROW is an unknown mystery: ROW is, ultimately, a very big spreadsheet, on which hundreds of thousands of calculations are made for each trigger pulled by RPers. ROW resembles NSG Senate closely, except what NSG lacks ROW has an over abundance of it. Players take the roles of members of parliament in a fictitious, virtual, anarchic nation. Players write and pass bills in the nation's legislative house which have effects on various national statistics-- a larger, more zealous police force would tackle crime, and green energy subsidies would clean the nation's air.

There are over 800 different ways to affect the country, along with over 60 default bills to pass. By default, I mean that these bills were preregistered into the spreadsheet, and user-created bills with certain, more specific effects will be added as the game progresses. Statistics range from the literacy rate to the Human Development Index to the price of a barrel of petrol.

New Ways To Play
As opposed to v1.0's playing style, where two occupations were separately available, v2.0 presents four ways to play at the same time. In v1.0 we had Senator, the politician bill-passing necessary protagonist, and the Journalist, who printed out the most recent happenings. Now, v2.0 allows the availability of the Chief Executive (CEO) role, where the player role-plays as the CEO of one of the nation's largest firms, and the Citizen, where the player role-plays any virtual citizen of the country and writes about life in the country. The player may choose to only play as one of these characters, two, three or even the whole lot of them!

v2.0 will also not be played on external forums, because that, in retrospect, killed the version. v2.0 will be played in P2TM the same way NSG Senate is played in Forum 7. There will be this Sign Up + Discussion thread (alles), a Legislative thread (Senators), News thread (Journalists), Business thread (CEOs) and a Citizen thread (Citizens). It's pretty straightforward.

v2.0 gets rid of the Gini coefficient, because that barely worked, and replaces it with a snazzy HDI module, which rather annoyingly takes up more space than just the one cell I would have preferred. Oh, and GDP per capita isn't messed up anymore (shh, no one actually knew about that).

v2.0 has a new time/calendar system, where every day is equal to one in-game month with the exception of Sunday. So Monday January, Tuesday February, Wednesday March, Thursday April, Friday May, Saturday June, Sunday we take some time off, Monday July, all the way to Saturday December. Every two weeks is a year, every Sunday I print out the semester's numerical happenings and every two months is a new election.

If you've made it this far, or alternatively if you're gasping for a TL;DR, then do check out the old June ROW signup thread, and from there the even older interest thread.

OK re-reading this I get the impression that the game is unplayably solemn and dull. It's not. If you take part in NSG Senate or enjoy role-playing senators, journalists, businessmen-- just people in general (or both), then ROW will amaze you. Here, I'll even underline this so it gets your attention. And in a box.

ANY QUESTIONS YO? YOU MUST HAVE MILLIONS. ASK THEM ALL BECAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE I COVERED 1% OF THE INFO YOU NEED SO FAR.

Oh, woops, almost forgot the applications.

Please note that ROW is based in a universe of its own, so please do not relate your characters to your NationStates nation. Thank you.

Code: Select all

[b]NAME OF CHARACTERS[/b] (Realistic names only, please):
• John Smith, Senator
• John Smith, Journalist
• John Smith, CEO
• John Smith, Citizen
[i]Please select a name for your desired character(s) without forgetting a comma and their class[/i]

[b]YOUR CHARACTER'S DESIRED JOBS[/b]:
[b][u]Senator[/u] Which political party will you be affiliated with?[/b]:
[b][u]Senator[/u] Will you like a place in the first Government?[/b]:
[b][u]Journalist[/u] What will your character like to write about?[/b]:
[b][u]CEO[/u] What is the name of the company you wish to own?
[u]All[/u] Tell us a bit about yourselves ...[/b]

POLITICAL PARTIES:[/td]

NAME	ECONOMIC ORIENTATION	SOCIAL ORIENTATION
Libertarian Party (LP)	Centre-Right	Libertarian
Socialist Party (SP)	Left	Libertarian
Conservative Party (CP)	Right	Authoritarian
Imperialist Party	Centre-Left	Libertarian

JOURNALISTS IN NEWSPAPERS:

• Editor-in-Chief Writes the Editorial/Leaders
• Economics Correspondent Writes all things related to the economy
• Social Matters Correspondent Writes all things to do with voters and their habits
• Political Correspondent Writes about happenings in the Senate and has interviews with Senators
• Markets Correspondent Writes about all business-related news
• Other Writes about anything else.

This list is essentially the same for all newspapers, except for "Other" and beyond, which can offer different titles and responsibilities. However, at least 3 positions must be filled for the paper to stay.

uhm no need for a sample app, right? maybe some of these to put you in the mood

Have fun guys

cheers and hugs and many kisses

Ark

Yea....I have a question......what is this again.......exactly?

Fun.
Take the NSG Senate, give it way more calculations,logic, and realism, while subtracting the joke parties.
We have paramilitaries, Libertarians, Monarchists and Socialists.Fascists and Conservatives.

[The New Lowlands]

We need a Communist Party, that'll liven the place up.

[Imperium Nova]

We need a Communist Party, that'll liven the place up.

We barely have a libertarian party. All our parties seem to be going in one direction too.