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[Name] What Are The Odds?
[Validity] Must have Sortition policy
[Description] A new parliamentary selection has been randomly drawn from all eligible @@DEMONYMPLURAL@@! Yet as you enter the main hall to witness the inauguration ceremony and politely nod at the people you pass by, you realise with dawning horror that an overwhelming majority of the parliamentary candidates are known opponents of your policies, having publicly expressed their disagreement with your rule at one point or another. It seems the deck is unnaturally stacked against you.
[Option 1] "How could this have happened?!" asks President of the Selection Committee @@RANDOMNAME_1@@, a little too excessively aghast. "The odds of this occurring naturally are simply astronomical! Thank goodness the issue was caught in time, before anyone was sworn in. Now we'll simply need to declare the results of this drawing null and void and draw a new selection. If the same occurs again somehow, we'll keep redrawing and rejecting until we have a parliament as random as a game of jackstraws!"
[Effect 1] Selection Committees disappear for years on end whenever new parliamentarians are drawn
[Option 2] "Selection fraud?!" gasps committee member @@RANDOMNAME_2@@, @@HIS_2@@ eyes shifty. "I tell you, my peers are corrupt all up to those little eyeballs of theirs. Put me in charge of a thorough audit of the entire committee and prosecute anyone who even looked funny at the drawing selection! We also need to ensure this will never happen again. I propose cameras, portable heart-rate monitors, pitbulls... and a fortified military bunker where we will keep the dice! Our lottocracy is at stake!"
[Effect 2] chance cannot be left to chance in @@NAME@@
[Option 3] Your brother - who always manages to find himself at your side in times such as these - leans over to you conspiratorially. "You know, this could be an opportunity for you," he says with a diabolical turning of the lips. "Because what this committee of sad little frauds did, we could do too. Put me in charge of a new, more loyal selection committee and under the guise of randomness, I'll insure the parliament's composition will always align with your agenda. You'll reign supreme, with none the wiser!"
[Effect 3] everyone promptly backs out whenever @@LEADER@@ joins a game of chance
[Option 4] One of the parliamentary candidates looks rather uncomfortable. "I really don't want to be here and I definitely don't want this job. All this parliamentary stuff is for people who really love to hear themselves talking and I'm not one of them. I just want to go home, catch up on Game of Chairs and pet my @@ANIMAL@@. If we really have given up on democracy for good, couldn't we at least have a sign-up sheet for those that want to be drawn for parliament? Please? I'd really like to go now..."
[Effect 4] nothing is as predictable as the tides of parliamentary politics
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