Draft 1.10
Title: What Goes In Must Come Out
The Issue: After a late night at a local government office turned into a festival of drinking games and prank calls, the federal parliament woke up to rioting, a petition to ban body piercings, two thousand bottles of booze being shipped from Wezeltonia, and a massive headache.
Validity: Alcohol is legal
Option 1: "Oooooooh," moans your secretary, guzzling another alka seltzer and adjusting an ice pack. "I think it's... painfully clear that we should not work while drunk. Or drink while working... or something like that. It leads to nothing but trou...bluh. We need to send out a formal apology and promise that everyone, from here on out, will have compulsory time off work while drunk."
[effect] people partying when the should be working are told to take the day off
Option 2: "Politicians should be held to a higher standard than this," sighs Opposition leader @@RANDOMNAME@@, having opposed everything from drinking to calling an ambulance and instead opting to clock out early. "No drinking. As a matter of fact, politicians should be completely detoxed so as to perform optimally." @@HE@@ frowns as @@HE@@ finds drool under @@HIS@@ shoe. "Wouldn't you agree, @@LEADER@@?"
[effect] parliament no longer has coffee
Option 3: "Come on, you have to admit that was fun," slurs your party-loving uncle, falling as he climbs through your liquor cabinet. "It was so fun that we should totally start a trend where every bill we pass has to be approved of twice, once while sober and once while drunk. That will help with corruption as well as be a blast—woooOOAH!" You watch as he topples along with everything on your desk.
[effect] policies are made by drunks
Option 4: "We're forgetting something: what we did last night," declares your usually-staunch and possibly not-quite-sober Minister of Law and Order, who streamed the event, while wildly swinging a truncheon. "And we should live with the consequences. We—*hic*—should uphold our word, like the righteous government we are, and enforce a ban on alcohol. And our shiplements of booze from Weaselponia? We'll break the bottles and laugh. Haha, huh... HRNG-" The minister rushes to your trash can.
[effect] controversial decisions lead to controversial decisions