The Magical Adventures of @@LEADER@@
Validity: Very high recreational drug use, drugs legal, high civil rights
The Issue: You're sat in the office gardens after a state banquet when it occurs to you that dessert tasted unusually earthy. Did that intern chef mess up the food? It's been an hour or so, and as an unavoidable nausea begins to spread throughout your body, things are starting to feel a little... magical.
Option 1: "Everything will be alright!" rejoices a hallucination of the dead ethnobotanist Clarence McKanna, emerging from a tapestry of color in the grass. "Your intern chef accidentally put psilocybin mushrooms in your dessert... but not to worry, psychoactive compounds like psilocybin are tremendously useful in the treatment of various mental disorders and help us transcend our deepest existential fears. You should fund state of the art, holistic health centres where the masses can embrace their psychedelic awakenings free from the cold and clinical nature of the laboratory."
Effect: a mushroom a day keeps the sadness away
Option 2: "My magic is not for the ill-prepared mind, @@LEADER@@..." whispers a glistening cloud of rainbows, pouring abstract visual fragments of medical licenses and pipettes from the sky, "A bad experience can trigger all sorts of dormant, underlying mental disorders and you wouldn't know until they hit you like a brick. I'm better off consumed exclusively in controlled scientific experiments, not your average backstreet in @@NAME@@."
Effect: volunteers trip over themselves to get into the latest mind-bending drug trials
Option 3a (computers allowed): "Oh, that sounds terrifying," cackles a mischievous crow, landing on your shoulder as the sky turns an ominous shade of red, "I bet you're having a nightmare trip! Why don't you send one of those nationwide emergency texts so everyone knows just how dangerous these filthy, madness-inducing drugs are before you go completely insane? You can still save @@NAME@@ from total mass hysteria if you ban these devilish substances outright."
Effect: nationwide emergency texts are shrugged off as @@LEADER@@ having another episode
Option 3b (computers not allowed): "Oh, that sounds terrifying," cackles a mischievous crow, landing on your shoulder as the sky turns an ominous shade of red, "I bet you're having a nightmare trip! Why don't you air one of those nationwide emergency television broadcasts to warn everyone just how dangerous these filthy, madness-inducing drugs are before you go completely insane? You can still save @@NAME@@ from total mass hysteria if you ban these devilish substances outright."
Effect: airings of anti-drug PSAs are shrugged off as @@LEADER@@ having another episode
Option 4: A gnome pops his head around a plant pot, which seems to be dancing in the gentle breeze. "Hello, @@LEADER! Do you have a moment to talk about all the fun we're having right now?! Look at all these awesome shapes and colours!" He skips towards you in hilarious fashion, before sitting on your knee, "Don't you think everyone should be able to go on their own magical adventures, anywhere they want, and at any time? That way, we can all laugh and dance in the strawberry fields forever!"
Effect: tourists are convinced the country has gone bonkers